Gaetano Mirabella
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| Nino (right) with Loretta & DdeK at the MPCT August’07 Colloquium |
Gaetano "Nino" Mirabella is a writer and philosopher based in Salerno, Italy. He obtained his PhD degree from the Univiersity of Salerno, under the guidance of Mario Perniola. His dissertation is titled The *Dionysian* in the Philosophy of Nietzsche. Previously, he obtained a degree in the History of Art from the University of Urbino.
As a philosopher, Nino researches perception, awareness and presence, as they relate to the body and the mind, and educates his philosophy students in ways of exploring and gaining an understanding of the above.
In the summer of 2007 Nino responded to an invitation by Derrick de Kerckhove to join the team of researchers developing the Point of Being project, of which he is also a patron.
In 1989 Nino wrote a critical analysis of the Roman poet Franco Ferrara’s poem “Letter to Natasha and Imzad”, which was published by Ripostes Publishers, Salerno.
Nino is the author of numerous philosophical essays and a presenter at conferences in Italy and internationally. He is a member of the Italian Society of Aesthetic Studies.
Nino’s paper “Il corpo-scena” - il corpo nell’epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica (“The body-scene” - The body in the era of your technical reproducibility) was presented at an international conference at the University of Siena-Arezzo and subsequently published by Trauben Publishers, Turin (2000). At the same conference, Nino acquainted his audience with another important concept of his philosophy - “la presenza definitiva” (definitive presence).
In 2003, Nino gave a talk at the Second Mediterranean Convention on Aesthetics in Tunisia, in which he developed the concepts of “sentire pensante” (thinking feeling ) and “spazio cosciente” (conscious space). His work was published in 2005 by L’association tunisienne d’esthétique et de poiétique, Atep e Maghreb Diffusion, Tunisia.
2005 saw the publication of a philosophical romance entitled Dieci passi prima dell’eternità (Ten steps to eternity), in which the plot spins a love story in Salerno, the town of the ancient Scuola Medica Salernitana (Salerno Medical School). An unpublished philosophical essay develops an analysis of R. L. Stevenson’s Dr. Jekkyl and Mr. Hyde.
Nino also writes for the theatre, and in 1995, at the request of the City of Salerno and its Department of Education, he wrote a historical play for the city schools about the Salerno Medical School, which was founded in the 9th century, and is considered by some to be the predecessor of European Universities.
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