Maurizio Ferraris
Biographic Data
| ID | 2063824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurizio Ferraris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurizio |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferraris |
| SIGNATURE | FERRARIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3027-1691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Derrida
This paper explores Maurizio Ferraris’s philosophical dialogue with Jacques Derrida, tracing the evolution from deconstruction to documentality and the emergence of a realist ontology suited for the digital age. While acknowledging Derrida’s influence, Ferraris distances himself from postmodernism’s obsession with overcoming metaphysics, proposing instead that social reality is grounded not in collective intentionality but in recording, summarize…
Webfare
From time immemorial, humans have been making deals, consuming goods, cultivating interests, thereby manifesting specific forms of life. Now, these forms of life solidify automatically by transforming into data. Webfare, a form of digital welfare, seeks to initiate a Copernican revolution that places need instead of merit at the center of society. In 21st-century welfare, consumption and production will be considered as the two faces of the same …
Gianteresio Vattimo, 1936–2023
Over the course of fifty years, Gianni Vattimo was a friend, teacher, and adversary for me. I must resist the temptation to speak here of my own memories of him in order to provide readers of this brief essay with what I think is destined to endure after Vattimo’s death, the essence of which can be found in the collection of his writings entitled Scritti filosofici e politici (Philosophical and Political Writings)
Hysteresis
Since the 1780s, Western philosophy has been largely under the spell of Immanuel Kant’s transcendental philosophy. In this book, Maurizio Ferraris offers a number of important criticisms of Kant in a book of two parts, written 21 years apart. The first part of the book, 'Observation', originally published in 2001, lays the foundations of Ferraris' New Realism, foreshadowing the realist turn that has become characteristic of 21st century philosoph…
Doc-Humanity
However you view the present time, it is a new century, a new world, and also a new humanity - in fact, humanity is not something that was ever defined once and for all, but remains an open project. For several decades we have been witnessing a revolution. However, unlike the political and ideological revolutions that took place around the First World War, this is a technological and much more radical one that does not depend on people's beliefs,…
Doc-Humanity
The time has come to stop thinking of the future as a projection of the past. The technological revolution has brought with it a new ecosystem. Understanding the Webs nature is the first step toward understanding this revolution, which generates a new world, a new capital, a new humanity: doc-humanity.
Money, Social Ontology and Law
Presenting legal and philosophical essays on money, this book explores the conditions according to which an object like a piece of paper, or an electronic signal, has come to be seen as having a value. Money plays a crucial role in the regulation of social relationships and their normative determination. It is thus integral to the very nature of the "social", and the question of how society is kept together by a network of agreements, conventions…
Le panoptique renversé
On croit souvent que les Big data et l’univers d’internet et des réseaux sociaux constituent une forme nouvelle de pouvoir dictatorial des contrôleurs d’internet. Mais, en fait, ce à quoi nous assistons est à une nouvelle dictature du prolétariat, celle des multitudes et du populisme
Realism as emergentism
In this paper, I assume that, if knowledge does not refer to something other than itself, the words ‘subject’, ‘object’, ‘epistemology’, ‘ontology’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘reflection’ would be meaningless. I define the transcendental fallacy as involving faith in the existence of a spirit independent from matter, capable of producing representations and things. In terms of matter and memory, the fact that the past is repeated by matter is even more imp…
What is Documediality and why Traces, Documents and Archives are Normative
The documedia revolution is a technological, social, and anthropological revolution. It has indeed been possible thanks to the constructive force of documentality in conjunction with the communicative and mobilizing power of the web. It is a connection between documents and media that has involved a very large number of people, in a completely unexpected way. Therefore, it can be defined anthropological because it directly concerns human beings, …
Mobilisation totale
Pour la première fois dans l’histoire du monde, grâce au téléphone mobile, nous avons l’absolu dans notre poche. Mais avoir le monde en main signifie aussi, automatiquement, être aux mains du monde. Toutes les cinq secondes en moyenne, votre portable se manifeste à vous. Cet ouvrage se penche sur ce phénomène de société et montre comment cette sollicitation permanente se transforme en dispositif de mobilisation. Qui dit mobilisation dit militaris…
A brief history of new realism
In this paper I try to sketch a brief history of new realism. Starting from nineteenth century idealism, I then move on to discuss twentieth century postmodernism, which, I argue, is the heir of idealism and the theoretical enemy of new realism. Finally, I offer a reconstruction of how and why contemporary new realism came into being and propose a few remarks on its future perspectives
Collective intentionality or documentality
In this article I defend two theses. The first is that the centrality of recording in the social world is manifested through the production of documents, a phenomenon which has been present since the earliest phases of society and which has undergone an exponential growth through the technological developments of the last decades (computers, tablets, smartphones). The second is that the centrality of documents leads to a view of normativity accor…
Schriftenreihe des Käte Hamburger Kollegs 'Recht Als Kultur', Volume 6
Manifest des neuen Realismus
Dieses Buch, das in Italien bereits mehrere Auflagen erlebt hat, ist ein Manifest, das sich gegen zwei Bewegungen wendet: gegen das postmoderne Denken und seinen Kult der Ironisierung, der das Denken insgesamt unter den Universalverdacht der Fälschung setzt und den Wert der Wirklichkeit bzw. eines Wissens von Wirklichkeit diskreditiert – und gegen einen Konstruktivismus, der die Welt in der Begriffsarbeit seiner Beobachter hervorbringt. Dem postm…
Manifesto of new realism
From fictionalism to realism
Manifesto del nuovo realismo
Manifiesto del Nuevo Realismo
PrólogoEn junio de 2011, en Nápoles, en
The Philosopher-Son
Many elements of Derrida's “psychoanalytic” philosophy support the view that for most of his career he remained a philosopher-son: the disruptive attitude toward a systematic style, the tendency to exaggerate, the fervor—so like that of Heidegger, Freud, and especially Nietzsche—with which he repeatedly stages confrontations with his father-masters. However, Derrida never claimed, with the postmoderns, that every kind of reality is socially and h…
Postmodernism and the Deconstruction of Modernism
Postmodernism has an ancient history. This fact is not postmodernism's only paradox, although it is the best known and certainly the richest in philosophical consequences. Since JeanFrancois Lyotard's 1979 pamphlet, La Condition Postmoderne, which initiated the philosophical and European debate on postmodernism, philosophical postmodernism has been characterized (at least by its promoters) as the consequence of a dissolution of modernist projects…
What's Happening
Proust, Deleuze et la répétition
Manifiesto del Nuevo Realismo
PrólogoEn junio de 2011, en Nápoles, en
Collective intentionality or documentality
In this article I defend two theses. The first is that the centrality of recording in the social world is manifested through the production of documents, a phenomenon which has been present since the earliest phases of society and which has undergone an exponential growth through the technological developments of the last decades (computers, tablets, smartphones). The second is that the centrality of documents leads to a view of normativity accor…
Proust, Deleuze et la répétition
What's Happening
Postmodernism and the Deconstruction of Modernism
Postmodernism has an ancient history. This fact is not postmodernism's only paradox, although it is the best known and certainly the richest in philosophical consequences. Since JeanFrancois Lyotard's 1979 pamphlet, La Condition Postmoderne, which initiated the philosophical and European debate on postmodernism, philosophical postmodernism has been characterized (at least by its promoters) as the consequence of a dissolution of modernist projects…
The Philosopher-Son
Many elements of Derrida's “psychoanalytic” philosophy support the view that for most of his career he remained a philosopher-son: the disruptive attitude toward a systematic style, the tendency to exaggerate, the fervor—so like that of Heidegger, Freud, and especially Nietzsche—with which he repeatedly stages confrontations with his father-masters. However, Derrida never claimed, with the postmoderns, that every kind of reality is socially and h…
Manifesto del nuovo realismo
Manifiesto del Nuevo Realismo
PrólogoEn junio de 2011, en Nápoles, en
From fictionalism to realism
Schriftenreihe des Käte Hamburger Kollegs 'Recht Als Kultur', Volume 6
Manifest des neuen Realismus
Dieses Buch, das in Italien bereits mehrere Auflagen erlebt hat, ist ein Manifest, das sich gegen zwei Bewegungen wendet: gegen das postmoderne Denken und seinen Kult der Ironisierung, der das Denken insgesamt unter den Universalverdacht der Fälschung setzt und den Wert der Wirklichkeit bzw. eines Wissens von Wirklichkeit diskreditiert – und gegen einen Konstruktivismus, der die Welt in der Begriffsarbeit seiner Beobachter hervorbringt. Dem postm…
Manifesto of new realism
Collective intentionality or documentality
In this article I defend two theses. The first is that the centrality of recording in the social world is manifested through the production of documents, a phenomenon which has been present since the earliest phases of society and which has undergone an exponential growth through the technological developments of the last decades (computers, tablets, smartphones). The second is that the centrality of documents leads to a view of normativity accor…
Mobilisation totale
Pour la première fois dans l’histoire du monde, grâce au téléphone mobile, nous avons l’absolu dans notre poche. Mais avoir le monde en main signifie aussi, automatiquement, être aux mains du monde. Toutes les cinq secondes en moyenne, votre portable se manifeste à vous. Cet ouvrage se penche sur ce phénomène de société et montre comment cette sollicitation permanente se transforme en dispositif de mobilisation. Qui dit mobilisation dit militaris…
A brief history of new realism
In this paper I try to sketch a brief history of new realism. Starting from nineteenth century idealism, I then move on to discuss twentieth century postmodernism, which, I argue, is the heir of idealism and the theoretical enemy of new realism. Finally, I offer a reconstruction of how and why contemporary new realism came into being and propose a few remarks on its future perspectives
Realism as emergentism
In this paper, I assume that, if knowledge does not refer to something other than itself, the words ‘subject’, ‘object’, ‘epistemology’, ‘ontology’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘reflection’ would be meaningless. I define the transcendental fallacy as involving faith in the existence of a spirit independent from matter, capable of producing representations and things. In terms of matter and memory, the fact that the past is repeated by matter is even more imp…
What is Documediality and why Traces, Documents and Archives are Normative
The documedia revolution is a technological, social, and anthropological revolution. It has indeed been possible thanks to the constructive force of documentality in conjunction with the communicative and mobilizing power of the web. It is a connection between documents and media that has involved a very large number of people, in a completely unexpected way. Therefore, it can be defined anthropological because it directly concerns human beings, …
Money, Social Ontology and Law
Presenting legal and philosophical essays on money, this book explores the conditions according to which an object like a piece of paper, or an electronic signal, has come to be seen as having a value. Money plays a crucial role in the regulation of social relationships and their normative determination. It is thus integral to the very nature of the "social", and the question of how society is kept together by a network of agreements, conventions…
Le panoptique renversé
On croit souvent que les Big data et l’univers d’internet et des réseaux sociaux constituent une forme nouvelle de pouvoir dictatorial des contrôleurs d’internet. Mais, en fait, ce à quoi nous assistons est à une nouvelle dictature du prolétariat, celle des multitudes et du populisme
Doc-Humanity
However you view the present time, it is a new century, a new world, and also a new humanity - in fact, humanity is not something that was ever defined once and for all, but remains an open project. For several decades we have been witnessing a revolution. However, unlike the political and ideological revolutions that took place around the First World War, this is a technological and much more radical one that does not depend on people's beliefs,…
Doc-Humanity
The time has come to stop thinking of the future as a projection of the past. The technological revolution has brought with it a new ecosystem. Understanding the Webs nature is the first step toward understanding this revolution, which generates a new world, a new capital, a new humanity: doc-humanity.
Hysteresis
Since the 1780s, Western philosophy has been largely under the spell of Immanuel Kant’s transcendental philosophy. In this book, Maurizio Ferraris offers a number of important criticisms of Kant in a book of two parts, written 21 years apart. The first part of the book, 'Observation', originally published in 2001, lays the foundations of Ferraris' New Realism, foreshadowing the realist turn that has become characteristic of 21st century philosoph…
Webfare
From time immemorial, humans have been making deals, consuming goods, cultivating interests, thereby manifesting specific forms of life. Now, these forms of life solidify automatically by transforming into data. Webfare, a form of digital welfare, seeks to initiate a Copernican revolution that places need instead of merit at the center of society. In 21st-century welfare, consumption and production will be considered as the two faces of the same …
Gianteresio Vattimo, 1936–2023
Over the course of fifty years, Gianni Vattimo was a friend, teacher, and adversary for me. I must resist the temptation to speak here of my own memories of him in order to provide readers of this brief essay with what I think is destined to endure after Vattimo’s death, the essence of which can be found in the collection of his writings entitled Scritti filosofici e politici (Philosophical and Political Writings)
Derrida
This paper explores Maurizio Ferraris’s philosophical dialogue with Jacques Derrida, tracing the evolution from deconstruction to documentality and the emergence of a realist ontology suited for the digital age. While acknowledging Derrida’s influence, Ferraris distances himself from postmodernism’s obsession with overcoming metaphysics, proposing instead that social reality is grounded not in collective intentionality but in recording, summarize…
Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Ontology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Realism (4 works) · History (3 works)