Adriano Fabris

Prof. Adriano Fabris

•Born in 1958. Studied under the direction of Vittorio Sainati (graduate and post-graduate in Moral Philosophy, Pisa University), Alberto Caracciolo ("Perfezionamento" (PhD) in Theoretical Philosophy, Genova University), D.A.A.D. study grant in Mannheim, Germany.
•From 1984: researcher in Philosophy at the University of Pisa. Several studies on Martin Heidegger’s thought and on contemporary Hermeneutics (especially on the problem of hermeneutical logic, different from both dialectic and formal logic: see "Logica ed ermeneutica: Interpretazione di Heidegger", 1982, "Filosofia, storia, temporalità", 1988, "Essere e tempo di Heidegger. Guida alla lettura, 2001). Translations into Italian of Martin Heidegger’s "Gelassenheit", "Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie" (vol. XXIV of Martin Heideggers Gesamtausgabe), "Zur Frage nach der Bestimmung der Sache des Denkens", "Feldwegespraeche, and of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s "Vernunft in Zeitalter der Wissenschaft".
•From 1990: lecturer of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Pisa. Two main areas of research: the development of modern Jewish thought (above all Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas: see "Linguaggio della rivelazione: Filosofia e teologia nel pensiero di Franz Rosenzweig", 1990, "Esperienza e paradosso", 1994, "Il pensiero ebraico nel Novecento, editor, 2014) and the foundation of a philosophy of religion in a pluralistic age (see "Introduzione alla filosofia della religione", 1996, "Tre domande su Dio: un game book filosofico", 1998, "Filosofia delle religioni. Come orientarsi nell'epoca dell'indifferenza e dei fondamentalismi", 2012). Translation into Italian of Gershom Scholem’s "Der Name Gottes und die Sprachtheorie der Kabbalah", and of Jean Paul, "Die Rede des todten Christus".
•From 1998: associate professor of Theoretic Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Pisa. Studies on the relationship between Continental and Analytical philosophy of language (see "El giro linguistico: hermeneutica y analisi del lenguaje", 2000) and on the genesis of some philosophical and religious concepts (‘experience’; ‘love’, ‘person’: see "I paradossi dell’amore tra grecità, ebraismo e cristianesimo", 2002; "Il peccato originale come problema filosofico", 2014).
•From 2001: full professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Pisa. Development of a project on metaphoric language in the works of some important philosophers (Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger). Metaphors such as: ‘house’, ‘path’, ‘way’, ‘light’, ‘darkness’, ‘circle’, ‘orientation’ are discussed, (see "Paradossi del senso: Questioni di filosofia", 2002). Studies on Moral Philosophy ("TeorEtica", 2010; "RelAzione. Una filosofia performativa", 2016). Studies on applied ethics (above all Communication Ethics and Intercultural Communication: see "Etica della comunicazione interculturale", 2004, "Etica della comunicazione", 2006 and 2014, "Guida alle etiche della comunicazione", 2005 and 2011; "Twitter e la filosofia", 2015; Ethical Issues in Internet Communication", 2016, "Ethics of Information and Communication Technologies", 2018).
•From 2001 to 2014: Director of the “Master in Public Communication” (further: Master online) at the University of Pisa. From 2006: Director of “Teoria. Review of Philosophy” (Pisa).
Now: Co-Director of “Filosofia e teologia” (Napoli). Director of the "Center for Research on Communication" of Pisa University. Member of the Advisory Board of: Fondazione ReTe (Religioni e Teologia, Lugano, Switzerland),Eranos Foundation (Ascona, Switzerland).
•Visiting Professor at Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Universidad Austral de Valdivia (Cile), Universidad Catolica Argentina, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Universidad de Las Islas Baleares (Spain), University of Lugano (Switzerland).
•Member of the Scientific Comittee of Internationale Rosenzweig Gesellschaft. From 2006 to 2013 Promoter of the research partnershi