The Enigma of Art: On the Provenance of Artistic Creation

Gino Zaccaria is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bocconi University (Milan). He has published various monographs and essays in the fields of ontology and metaphysics (according to a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach), with particular focus on the dialogue between philosophy, poetry, art and science. His last book is a study on the concept of the Null in the poetical thought of Giacomo Leopardi (Pensare il nulla, Pavia 2015). He has also edited books and published Italian translations of works by Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He is co-editor in chief of the international journal eudia - Yearbook for Philosophy, Poetry and Art (www.eudia.org) and co-director of the international research project ScienzaNuova (www.scienzanuova.org). Presently is he working on a book dedicated to the phenomenology of time and space.