Francesco Vitale is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Salerno in Italy. He specializes in German Classical Aesthetics, Film Theory and Contemporary French Philosophy. After attending a number of seminars held by Jacques Derrida at the EHESS in Paris, he became a disciple of the French-Algerian philosopher and later devoted numerous articles to his work that appeared in English, French, Italian and Japanese and several monographs, including two in English published by SUNY Press: The Last Fortress of Metaphysics.Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of Architecture (2018) and Biodeconstruction. Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences (2018), reviewed in Critical Inquiry, Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Oxford Literary Review, Derrida Today. The journals Postmodern Culture (2018) and CR: The New Centennial Review (2019)devoted special issues to this book with which Francesco Vitale inaugurated a confrontation between deconstruction and the life sciences in the horizon of so-called “New-Materialism.” He is currently working on an epistemological deepening of this confrontation, which is particularly fruitful with respect to recent research in the field of French Darwinian genetics. Francesco Vitale also gave seminars at the Académie d’été de l’école de philosophie d’Epineuil le Fleuriel, founded and directed by Bernard Stiegler until his death (2020).His last monograph, published in Italian, is devoted to the work of Jean-Luc Godard: La farmacia di Godard. La conoscenza cinematografica della vita (della morte) (2021).
Education
Ph. D in Philosophy, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, 2000.
Publication Highlights
https://sunypress.edu/Books/B/Biodeconstruction
https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Last-Fortress-of-Metaphysics2
Articles
https://unisa.academia.edu/httpwwwunisaitdocentifrancescovitaleindex