Phd in PHILOSOPHY

email: daniele.guastini@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649917260

DANIELE GUASTINI (1963) is Full Professor of Aesthetics in the Department of Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome.
He graduated in Aesthetics with Emilio Garroni and later earned a PhD in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from the University of Bologna. He served as Assistant Professor (Researcher) at Sapienza from 2007 to 2015, and as Associate Professor from 2015 to 2021. Previously, he taught as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Urbino and the University of L'Aquila.
Abroad, from 2008 to 2010 he conducted seminars at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, as an invited scholar at its Centre d’Histoire et Théorie des Arts (CEHTA). In 2017, he was awarded a DEA (Directeurs d’Études Associés) Fellowship funded by the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), Paris.
Since 2012, he has been a member of the Faculty Board of the PhD Program in Philosophy at Sapienza. He has served as an ERC evaluator since 2016. Since 2008, he has been an emeritus member of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, and in 2001 he was among the founding members of the Società Italiana di Estetica (SIE).
He has directed numerous research projects. He is currently Principal Investigator for Sapienza of a PRIN PNRR (2022) project involving several research units (Salerno, Catanzaro, Como E-Campus), entitled “Aesthetics and Therapeia.”
His research focuses primarily on classical philosophy and poetics—within which he has published extensively on Aristotle, Plato, tragedy, and central concepts of Greek and Hellenistic-Roman culture such as mimesis, philia, eikon, phantasia, and ekphrasis—as well as on early Christian doctrines, with particular reference to the origins of Christian iconographic tradition, the theology of Paul of Tarsus, and the philosophy of Augustine, and on the history of aesthetics up to the early modern period.
He has authored more than 60 publications, including 7 monographs and annotated editions. Among the most representative are an annotated edition of Aristotle’s Poetics, published by Carocci in 2010 and recently reprinted; the volume Prima dell’estetica (Laterza, 2003; third reprint 2016); the volume Immagini cristiane e cultura antica (Morcelliana, Brescia, 2021); and most recently Estetica e modernità. Le radici medievali dell’arte (il Mulino, Bologna, 2026).