Barbara Carnevali is full professor of philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France, and a recurrent visiting professor of social aesthetics at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Mendrisio, Switzerland. She is leading the project City of Signs: Understanding Logos.
Carnevali received her degree from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy, studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Chicago, US, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. She has also held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Paris and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, US.
Research Focus
Carnevali’s research focuses on social aesthetics, exploring the connections between social phenomena and aesthetic forms. She is the author of Romantisme et reconnaissance: Figures de la reconnaissance chez Rousseau, and Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige, and is currently completing a new book, The Red Line: Milan and the Design of Modernity. She serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Philosophy, is a scientific curator of the Italian Philosophy Festival, and contributes regularly to the Italian newspaper La Stampa.
Feature image: portrait courtesy of Barbara Carnevali. Right: Denise Scott Brown, Architettura Minore on The Strip, Las Vegas, 1966, Carnegie Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Elise Jaffe & Jeffrey Brown.