Tonino Griffero

Tonino Griffero is full professor of Aesthetics at the Tor Vergata University of Rome. He is director of a book series ("Percezioni. Estetica & Fenomenologia", Milan; "Sensibilia. Colloquium on Perception and Experience” www.sensibilia.it, Milan; “Atmospheric Spaces. Aura Stimmung Ambiance” (Milan) and of the e-journal "Lebenswelt". Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience”. His research focused on hermeneutics (E.D. Hirsch jr., Emilio Betti, Eduard Spranger, Hans-Georg Gadamer), aesthetics, German idealism (Schelling), speculative pietism (F. C. Oetinger), philosophy of symbol and mythology, transitive imagination, spiritual body, 19th century German philosophy (Erich Rothacker, Odo Marquard, Joachim Ritter), New Phenomenology (Hermann Schmitz), aesthetics and phenomenology of atmospheres, ontology of quasi-things, philosophy of the lived body and collective feelings.
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Books: Interpretare. La teoria di Emilio Betti e il suo contesto (1988), Spirito e forme di vita. La filosofia della cultura di Eduard Spranger (1990), Senso e immagine. Simbolo e mito nel primo Schelling (1994), Cosmo Arte Natura. Itinerari schellinghiani (1995), L’estetica di Schelling (1996), Oetinger e Schelling. Teosofia e realismo biblico alle origini dell’idealismo tedesco (2000), Immagini attive. Breve storia dell’immaginazione transitiva (2003), Il corpo spirituale. Ontologie “sottili” da Paolo di Tarso a Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (2006), Atmosferologia, Estetica degli spazi emozionali, 2010 (engl. Atmospheres. Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces, 2014), Storia dell'estetica moderna (2012), Quasi-cose. La realtà dei sentimenti, 2013 (engl. Quasi-Things. The Paradigm of Atmospheres, 2017), Il pensiero dei sensi. Atmosfere ed estetica patica (2016), Places, Affordances, Atmospheres. A Pathic Aesthetics (2020), The Atmospheric “We”. Moods and Collective Feelings (2021), Being a Lived Body. From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View (2024, forthcoming).
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As co-editor: with G. Moretti, Atmosphere/Atmospheres. Testing a new paradigm (2018), with G. Francesetti, Psychopathology and Atmospheres. Neither Inside nor Outside (2019), it. Psicopatologia e atmosfere. Prima del soggetto e del mondo (2022), with M. Tedeschini, Atmosphere and Aesthetics. A Plural Perspective (2019).