Stefano Marino is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna. His main research interests are focused on critical theory of society, phenomenology and hermeneutics, neopragmatism and somaesthetics, philosophy of music, and aesthetics of fashion. He is the author of several books on Theodor W. Adorno, Hans-Georg Gadamer,  Martin Heidegger, Radiohead, and Frank Zappa. He has translated from German into Italian four books by Adorno and Gadamer, and from English into Italian a book by Carolyn Korsmeyer. He has published as co-editor several collections (books and special issues in journals) on Kant, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Adorno, deconstruction, popular culture and social criticism, popular music and romanticism, aesthetics and affectivity, fashion, and feminism.