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Maurizio Ferraris (Torino 1956) wrote more than seventy books that have been translated into several languages. Among the last ones, Documanità. Filosofia del mondo nuovo (Laterza) and Webfare. A Manifesto for Digital Well-Being (2024). Full Professor of Philosophy, he is the President of the Labont – Center for Ontology. He is columnist for ‘Corriere della sera’ and for ‘Neue Zürcher Zeitung’. He is also the president of “Scienza Nuova“, an institute of advanced studies – dedicated to Umberto Eco and uniting the University and the Polytechnic of Turin – aimed at planning a sustainable future, both from a cultural and from a political point of view. 

[Maurizio Ferraris (Torino 1956) ha scritto più di settanta libri, molti dei quali tradotti in varie lingue. Gli ultimi sono Post-Coronial Studies (Einaudi) e Documanità. Filosofia del Mondo Nuovo (Laterza). Professore ordinario di filosofia teoretica, è presidente del Labont – Center for Ontology. Editorialista del Corriere della sera e della Neue Zürcher Zeitung, dirige “Scienza Nuova”, l’istituto di studi avanzati dedicato a Umberto Eco che unisce l’Università e il Politecnico di Torino ed è rivolto alla progettazione di un futuro sostenibile, tanto dal punto di vista culturale quanto da quello politico]

Maurizio Ferraris is advisory member of the Center for Advanced Studies of South East Europe (Rijeka) and of the Internationales Zentrum Für Philosophie NRW. He is doctor honoris causa in Humanities at the University of Flores (Buenos Aires) and at Univesity of Pécs. He has been Fellow of Käte-Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur” (Bonn) and Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America (Columbia University, New York) and of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. He has also been Directeur d’études of the Collège International de Philosophie and Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) as well as other European and American Universities. He is the Director of ‘Rivista di Estetica’, and member of the committee of ‘Critique’, of ‘Círculo Hermenéutico editorial’ and of the ‘Revue francophone d’esthétique’.

Among his books that have appeared in English we quote: History of Hermeneutics (Humanities Press, 1996); A Taste for the Secret (with Jacques Derrida – Blackwell, 2001); Documentality or Why it is Necessary to Leave Traces (Fordham UP, 2012); Goodbye Kant! (SUNY UP, 2013); Where Are You? An Ontology of the Cell Phone (Fordham UP, 2014); Manifesto of New Realism (SUNY UP, 2014); Introduction to New Realism (Bloomsbury, 2014); Positive Realism (Zer0 Books, 2015); Learning to Live: Six Essays on Marcel Proust (Brill – 2020); Doc-humanity (2022, Mohr Siebeck) and Hysteresis (forthcoming, University of  Edimburgh Press).

In his long career, Maurizio Ferraris has determined a new course of thought and studies in at least six areas: history of hermeneutics, aesthetics as theory of perception, social ontology (the theory of Documentality), metaphysics (he has been the founder of New Realism, the most prominent philosophical movement of the new millennium), technological anthropology (the theory of Dochumanity), and philosophy of economics (Webfare as Digital Welfare). In 2005 he wrote the first philosophical book on the mobile phone: Where Are You? Ontology of the Mobile Phone.

See Ferraris’ Identity page on WorldCat, the Deutsche National Bibliothek, and perlentaucher.

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Maurizio Ferraris’ Books

  1. Comunismo digitale. Una proposta politica, Einaudi, Torino, 2025, pp. 160
  2. La pelle. Che cosa significa pensare nell’epoca dell’intelligenza artificiale, il Mulino, Bologna 2025, pp. 304
  3. Progetto e strategia. Un dialogo con Maurizio Ferraris, by Edoardo Bruno, DeriveApprodi, Rome 2024, pp. 144
  4. Webfare. A Manifesto for Digital Well-Being, Transcript, Bielefeld 2024, pp. 111; Spanish transl. by J.H. Marcelo, El manifesto del WEBFARE. De la guerra de los datos al bienestar de los datos, Materia Oscura Editorial, 2024, pp. 144; Italian transl., La filosofia, in Trattato Le piattaforme digitali e-Agorà, R. Bocchini (ed.), Giappichelli, Torino, 2025, pp. 71-108
  5. Imparare a vivere, Laterza, Rome-Bari 2024, pp. 152
  6. Hysteresis. The External World, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2024, pp. 376
  7. Tecnosofia. Umanesimo e tecnologia per una scienza nuova, with Guido Saracco, Laterza, Rome-Bari 2023, pp. 185; Spanish transl. Tecnosofia. Tecnología y humanismo para una cienca nueva, Enclave de libros, Madrid 2025, pp. 230
  8. Filosofia delle sfide globali, in collaboration with Chiara Fenoglio, Sanoma 2023, pp. 80
  9. Fare la verità, il Mulino, Bologna 2022, pp. 200
  10. Post-coronial Studies, Einaudi, Torino 2021, pp. 136
  11. Controversia sull’essere. Un carteggio filosofico su scienza, etica, politica, religione, nella prospettiva della Documanità e del Materialismo esistenziale, with Paolo Flores d’Arcais, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 2021, pp. 264
  12. Unsere tolle Gegenwart, Notizen und Provokationen, Turia + Kant, Wien/Berlin 2021, Federica Romanini and René Scheu (eds), translation by Federica Romanini, with a foreword by René Scheu, pp. 209
  13. Documanità. Filosofia del mondo nuovo, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2021, pp. 440; Eng. transl. by S. De Sanctis, Doc-Humanity, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck 2022, pp. 343; Documanidad. Filosofía del mundo nuevo, Spanish transl. by M. Cabrero, Madrid, Alianza Editorial 2023
  14. Umetnička dela kao osobe, with Migel Tamen, Miloš Ćipranić (prir.), Akademska knjiga – Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Novi Sad – Beograd, 2020, str. 1–135. ISBN: 978-86-80484-58-7 [Works of Art as Persons, Miloš Ćipranić (ed.), Akademska knjiga – Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Novi Sad – Belgrade, 2020, pp. 1–135]
  15. Metafísica de la Web, Spanish translation by J. Hernández Marcelo, Dykinson 2020, pp. 202
  16. Learning to Live: Six Essays on Marcel Proust, Brill 2020, pp. X, 106
  17. From Fountain to Moleskine, Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law, 2/4 (2019), pp. 87 doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/24684309-12340006
  18. The City of God, Seminar/No. 162/ Oct. 10, 2019 – Center for Studies of Marxist Social Theory at Nanjing University, pp. 70
  19. Cinema and Ontology, with E. Terrone, Milano-Udine, Mimesis 2018, pp. 200
  20. Il capitale documediale. Prolegomeni, in Scienza Nuova. Ontologia della trasformazione digitale, Torino, Rosenberg&Sellier, 2018, pp. 11-120
  21. Intorno agli unicorni. Supercazzole, ornitorinchi, ircocervi, Bologna, il Mulino 2018, pp. 144
  22. Il denaro e i suoi inganni with J. R. Searle, A. Condello (ed.), Torino, Einaudi 2018, pp. 136; Engl. A. Condello, M. Ferraris, J. R. Searle, Money, Social Ontology and Law, New York: Routledge 2019, pp. 80; Los engaños del dinero, Spanish trans. by Gerardo Matallana Medina, altamarea 2020, pp. 108
  23. Postverità e altri enigmi, Bologna, il Mulino, 2017, pp. 181; Post vérité et autres énigmes, French transl., Paris, Puf 2019; Posverdad y otros enigmas, Spanish trans. by Carlos Caranci Sáez, Alianza Editorial, 2019, pp. 176
  24. Filosofia teoretica, with E. Terrone, Bologna, il Mulino, 2017, pp. 280
  25. L’imbecillità è una cosa seria, Bologna, il Mulino, 2016, pp. 120; L’imbécillité est une chose sérieuse, French transl., Paris, Puf, 2017, pp. 148; La imbecilidad es cosa seria, Spanish trans. by M. A. Galmarini, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2018, pp. 128; Η βλακεία είναι σοβαρή υπόθεση, Greek transl. by Κατερινα Γουλα, ΚΕΔΡΟΣ, Athens, 2018, pp. 240
  26. Emergenza, Torino, Einaudi, 2016, pp. 142; Emerxencia, Galician transl. by I. O. Varela, Vigo, Euseino? ed., 2017, pp. 222; Émergence, French transl., Éditions du Cerf, 2018
  27. I modi dell’amicizia, with A. C. Varzi, Napoli-Salerno, Orthotes, 2016, pp. 60
  28. Mobilitazione Totale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2015, pp. 120, 2nd ed.; Mobilisation totale. L’appel du portable, French transl. by M. Orcel, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2016, pp. 152; Movilización Total, Spanish transl. by M. A. Ortega, Barcelona, Herder, 2017, pp. 152; Mobilização Total, Portuguese transl., Introdution by J. Rebalde and A. Romele, GrupoAlmedina 2018, pp. 158
  29. Introduction to new realism, English transl. by S. De Sanctis, London, Bloomsbury, 2014, pp. 168; Introducción al Nuevo Realismo, Neuquén, Argentina, Circulo Hermeneutico, 2014, pp. 117, Includes an interview with the author by Maria Albèrgamo; Introduction to new realism, Chinese transl., Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 2022
  30. Spettri di Nietzsche, Parma, Guanda, 2014, pp. 256; Nietzsches Gespenster, German transl. by M. Osterloh, Frankfurt/M, Klosterman, 2016, pp. 252
  31. Realismo positivo, Torino, Rosenberg &Sellier, 2013, pp. 112; English transl. Positive Realism, London, Zer0 Books, 2015, pp. 88; Spanish transl. Realismo Positivo, Segovia, Materia Oscura, 2023, pp. 122
  32. Filosofia globalizzata, with. L. Caffo, Milano, Mimesis, 2013, pp. 99
  33. From Fictionalism to Realism, with C. Barbero, A. Voltolini (eds), Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 160
  34. Bentornata realtà. Il nuovo realismo in discussione, with M. De Caro (eds), Torino, Einaudi, 2012, pp. 223
  35. Lasciar tracce: documentalità e architettura, Milano, Mimesis, 2012, pp. 92
  36. Manifesto del nuovo realismo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2012, pp. 114; Manifiesto del nuevo realismo, Spanish transl. by J. B. Jiménez, Santiago de Chile, Ariadna, 2012, pp. 134; Manifiesto del nuevo realismo(includesas a postface the text “Realismo positivo”, by M. Ferraris), Chatelaine transl. by F. J. Martin, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2013; Manifeste du nouveau réalisme, French transl. by M. Flusinand e A. Robert, Paris, Hermann, 2014, pp. 122; Manifest des neuen Realismus, German transl. by M. Osterloh, Frankfurt a. M., Klostermann, 2014, pp. 90; Manifesto of New Realism, English transl. by S. De Sanctis, SUNY Press, 2014, pp. 124; Manifest for en nyrealism, Swedish translation by I. Andersen, Stockholm, Daidalos, 2014, pp. 146; Manifesto del Nuovo Realismo, Chinese translation, Beijng, Beijng Institut of Technology Press, 2017, pp. 132; yeni gerçekçilik manifestosu, Turkish transl. by Kemal Atakay, Kolektif, Kitap, 2019, pp. 119; Manifest Nowego Realizmu, Polish transl. by Joanna Ugniewska, słowo/obraz terytoria, Gdańsk 2022, pp. 116
  37. Anima e iPad, Parma, Guanda, 2011, pp. 192; Âme et iPad, French transl. by B. Melançon, Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2014, pp. 216; Die Seele – ein iPad?, German transl. by M. Osterloh, Basel, Schwabe, 2014, pp. 194
  38. Filosofia per dame, Parma, Guanda, 2011, pp. 208
  39. Ricostruire la decostruzione. Cinque saggi a partire da Jacques Derrida, Milano, Bompiani, 2010, pp. 128
  40. Documentalità. Perché è necessario lasciar tracce, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2009, pp. XV-429; Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces, English transl. by R. Davies, New York, Fordham University Press, 2012, pp. 400; Documentalité. Pourqoui il est nécessaire de laisser des traces, French transl., Paris, Editions de Cerf, 2020; Por qué es necesario dejar huellas, Spanish transl., Ediciones Trea, 2023, pp. 432
  41. Piangere e ridere davvero. Feuilleton, Genova, il Melangolo, 2009, pp. 100
  42. Una Ikea di università. Alla prova dei fatti(new extended ed.), Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2009, pp. 161
  43. Storia dell’ontologia, (ed.), Milano, Bompiani, 2008, pp. 826; 2nd ed., 2009
  44. Il tunnel delle multe. Ontologia degli oggetti quotidiani, Torino, Einaudi, 2008, pp. 284
  45. La fidanzata automatica, Milano, Bompiani, 2007, pp. 204
  46. Sans Papier. Ontologia dell’attualità, Roma, Castelvecchi, 2007, pp. 233; new ed. with a new afterword 2025.
  47. Babbo Natale, Gesù Adulto. In cosa crede chi crede?, Milano, Bompiani, 2006, pp. 151
  48. Jackie Derrida. Ritratto a memoria, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2006, pp. 120; Jackie Derrida. Retrato de memoria, Spanish transl. by B. Mazzoldi, Bogotá, Siglo del Hombre, 2007, pp. 91
  49. Dove sei? Ontologia del telefonino, Milano, Bompiani, 2005, pp. 294; 2nd ed. 2006; new ed. in “Letture di filosofia” collection, introduction by U. Eco, Milano, Il Sole 24 Ore, 2007, pp. 350; Where are you? An Ontology of the Cell Phone, English transl. by S. De Sanctis, with a Foreword by U. Eco, New York, Fordham University Press 2014, pp. 248; T’es où? Ontologie du téléphone mobile, French transl. by P. E. Dauzat, Paris, Albin Michel, 2006, pp. 312; ¿Dónde estás? Ontología del teléfono móvil, Spanish transl. by C. Revilla Guzmán, Barcelona, Marbot, 2008, pp. 320; Alo? Undeeşti? Mictratat des pretelefonulmobil, Romanian transl. by T. Pavel, Bucureşti, RAO, 2008, pp. 336; Hol vagy? A mobiltelefon ontológiája, Hungarian transl. by J. Gál, Budapest, Európa, 2008, pp. 447; Ты где? Онтология мобильного телефона, Russian transl. By Timenchik Ksenia, Ustyuzhaninova M., Новое литературное обозрение, Mosca 2010, pp. 352; Gde si? Ontologijamobilnog telefona, Serbian transl. by I. Kara-Pešić, Fedon, Beograd, 2011, pp. 448; forthcoming Korean (Hyunsil) and Turkish (Periferi Kitap)
  50. Goodbye Kant! Cosa resta oggi della Critica della ragion pura, Milano, Bompiani, 2004, pp. 154; 5th ed. 2006; Goodbye, Kant! Qué quedahoy de la Critica de la razón pura, Spanish transl. by C.A. Caranci Díez-Gallo, Madrid, Losada, 2007, pp. 205; Goodbye, Kant! Ce qu’il reste aujourd’hui de la Critique de la raison pure, French transl. by J.-P. Cometti, préface by P. Engel, Paris, Editions de l’éclat, 2009, pp. 176; Goodbye Kant! Šta ostaje danas od Kritikečistog uma, Serbian transl. by I. Kara- Pešić, Paideia, Beograd, 2011; Goodbye Kant! What still stands of the Critique of Pure Reason, English transl. by R. Davies, SunyUniversity Press, 2013, pp. 146
  51. Ontologia, Napoli, Guida, 2003; 2nd ed. 2008, pp. 168
  52. Introduzione a Derrida, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2003; 3rd ed. 2008, pp. 161; Introducción a Derrida, Spanish transl. by L. Padilla López, Buenos Aires-Madrid, Amorrortu Editores, 2006, pp. 186
  53. L’altra estetica, (with other authors), Torino, Einaudi, 2001, pp. 351
  54. Il mondo esterno, Milano, Bompiani, 2001, pp. 210; 2nd ed. with a new afterword (pp. 211-215) in “Studi Bompiani”, Milano, 2013, pp. 215; Le monde extérieur, French transl. by C. Crignon, Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf 2022, pp. 360
  55. Experimentelle Ästhetik, Vienna, Turia und Kant, 2001, pp. 170
  56. Una Ikea di università, Milano, Cortina, 2001, pp. 117
  57. Nietzsche y el nihilismo, Madrid, Akal, 2000, pp. 87
  58. Nietzsche, (with other authors), Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999, pp. 422; 2nd ed. Guida a Nietzsche, 2004; 3rd ed. 2016
  59. L’ermeneutica, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1998, pp. 130; 2nd ed. 2003; La Hermenéutica, Mexican transl. by J. L. Bernal, Ciudad de México, Taurus Mexicana, 2000, pp. 187; La Hermenéutica, Spanish transl. by L. Sanz, Madrid, Ediciones Cristiandad, 2004, pp. 182
  60. Honoris causa a Derrida, Torino, Rosenberg &Sellier, 1998, pp. 106
  61. Estetica razionale, Milano, Cortina, 1997, pp. 648; new ed. 2011, pp. 678
  62. Il gusto del segreto, (with J. Derrida), Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997, pp. 181; A Taste for the Secret, English transl. by G. Donis, London, Blackwell, 2001, pp. 176; O Gosto do Segredo, Portuguese transl. by M. Serras Pereira, Lisboa, Fim de Século, 2006, pp. 240; French transl. Le goût du secret, Paris, Hermann 2017, pp. 132
  63. Estetica, with S. Givone and F. Vercellone, Torino, Utet, 1996, pp. 114
  64. L’immaginazione, Bologna, il Mulino, 1996, pp. 157;La Imaginación, Spanish transl. by F. Campillo Garcia, Madrid, Visor, 1998; İmgelem, Turkish transl. by F. Genç, Ankara, Dost, 2008, pp. 143
  65. Interpretazione ed emancipazione. Studi in onore di Gianni Vattimo, (with other authors), Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 1995, pp. 446
  66. Analogon rationis, Milano, Pratica filosofica, 1994, pp. 150
  67. Lutto e autobiografia da Agostino a Heidegger, Milano, Bompiani, 1992, pp. 150; Luto y Autobiografía, Spanish transl. by T. Serrano, Mexico City, Taurus, 2001, pp. 213; 2nd ed. 2010
  68. La filosofia e lo spirito vivente, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1991, pp. 280
  69. Postille a Derrida, Torino, Rosenberg &Sellier, 1990 [20202], pp. 308
  70. Nietzsche e la filosofia del Novecento, Milano, Bompiani, 1989, pp. 170; 2nd ed. 1999; new ed., with a new introduction, 2009, pp. 181
  71. Storia dell’ermeneutica, Milano, Bompiani, 1988, pp. 481; 9th ed., with a new introduction, 2008, pp. 528; History of Hermeneutics, English transl. by L. Somigli, New Jersey, Humanities Press, 1996, pp. 358, new edition for Brill 2018; Historia de la Hermeneutica, Spanish transl. by A. Perea Cortés, Madrid, Akal, 2001, pp. 365 and Mexico City, Siglo XXI, 2002
  72. Ermeneutica di Proust, Milano, Guerini e Associati, 1987, pp. 124; new ed. with a new introduction, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2022.
  73. La svolta testuale. Il decostruzionismo in Derrida, Lyotard, gli “Yale Critics”, Pavia, Cluep, 1984, pp. 145; new ed., Milano, Unicopli, 1986, pp. 144; partial Spanish transl. in M. Asensi (ed.), Teoría literaria y deconstrucción, Madrid, Arco / Libros, 1990
  74. Tracce. Nichilismo moderno postmoderno, Milano, Multhipla, 1983, pp. 174; new ed. with a new introduction, Milano, Mimesis, 2006, pp. 173
  75. Differenze. La filosofia francese dopo lo strutturalismo, Milano, Multhipla, 1981, pp. 228; new ed. with a new introduction, Milano, Edizioni Albo Versorio, 2007, pp. 158