MSCA - Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) on “Aesthetics of German Idealism (esp. Hegel, Kant) - Philosophy of Landscape”

SUPERVISOR DESCRIPTION

Alberto L. Siani is currently an Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge of the University of Pisa. He studied Philosophy in Italy and Germany and received his PhD through a joint program of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and the FernUniversität Hagen, with a dissertation on art and politics in G.W.F. Hegel (2010). After two years as an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doc Fellow and temporary Lecturer at the Universität Münster, he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Yeditepe University, Istanbul, before returning to Italy in 2016.

He has done research mostly on the aesthetics of Hegel and German Idealism, with a special focus on the “end of art” thesis and its relevance for the definition of the European idea of modernity. Besides, he has research interests on contemporary political philosophy and pragmatism. Currently, he is working on a project on landscape and aesthetics: on this topic he has published the article “Unifying Art and Nature: Brady and Eco on Interpretation” (in: Aesthetica Preprint,114/2020) and has a forthcoming entry on “Landscape Aesthetics” in the International Lexicon of Aesthetics (2022).

Among his other publications: the book Morte dell’arte, libertà del soggetto. Attualità di Hegel (Pisa: ETS, 2017), the edited volume Women Philosophers on Autonomy. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (with S. Bergès, New York: Routledge, 2018), and the articles “Antisubjectivism and the End of Art: Heidegger on Hegel” (in: British Journal of Aesthetics,60/3/2020) and “Von Tragödie und Komödie zum absoluten Geist. Die Funktion der Kunst in Hegels Naturrechtsaufsatz” (in: Hegel-Studien, 55/2021).

Eligibility criteria

Applicants must have a PhD degree at the time of the deadline for applications (13^th September 2023). Applicants who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree will also be considered eligible to apply.

At the call deadline, the applicant must have a maximum of 8 years experience in research, from the date of the award of their PhD degree. Years of experience outside research and career breaks will not count towards the above maximum, nor will years of experience in research in third countries, for nationals or long-term residents of EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries who wish to reintegrate to Europe.

Mobility Rule: The applicant may be of any nationality but must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Italy (for European Fellowships) or the host organisation for the outgoing phase (in case of Global Fellowship) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before 13^th September 2023.

Application procedure

Expressions of interest must be sent by email to alberto.siani@unipi.it no later than June 10^th, 2023 and must consist of two pdf files:

1. Complete and updated CV, clearly demonstrating all 3 eligibility requirements.
2. Motivation letter, maximum one page.