Silvia Mazzini
Director of School / Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Art Theory
Bio
SILVIA MAZZINI is a philosopher and theatre author who works on the intersection of Aesthetics and Political Philosophy. She has published on the subject of Art and Politics in Pasolini, Bloch, and Vattimo, as well as on tragic and comic thought and community theatre. Currently she is writing on the Philosophy of Poverty. Before joining IDSVA, Mazzini was research fellow at the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry and worked as Assistant Professor at Humboldt University, where she also obtained her PhD, at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands).
Areas of Research
Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Poverty, Cultural Studies, Theatre Studies, Participatory Art
Publications
“Sueños del pasado como señales del futuro. El legado pulsante de Ernst Bloch”. In: «La Maleta de Portbou», May-June 2025, pp. 103-108.
“For a Posthuman, Ecological Economy. A genealogical De- and Reconstruction”, in: Tafner, G.; Wagner-Herrbach, C.; u.a.: Humane Ökonomie – selbstverständlicher Auftrag sozioökonomischer Bildung und Wissenschaft oder sozialromantische Utopie? In: Barbara Budrich Verlag, Bonn, 2024, pp. 329-339.
“Per un’ecologia ermeneutica. Dall’oltreuomo al postumano in Gianni Vattimo”, in: «Iride», v. 37, issue 101, Jan.-Apr. 2024, pp. 153-163.
Making Communism Hermeneutical: on Vattimo and Zabala (Springer, 2017)
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