Forgotten Mediations: Rethinking Hegel through Contemporary Art - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8869775739 ISBN 13: 9788869775734

Publisher: Mimesis, 2026

Synopsis

Memory is never a neutral repository of the past. Every culture is shaped not only by what it preserves, but also by what it forgets. Forgotten Mediations explores this tension through a dialogue between Hegelian philosophy, feminist constellational research, and contemporary Iranian art. At its centre stands the work of the Iranian artist Mohaddeseh Rabbaninia, whose layered compositions bring to light forgotten female constellations connected with German Idealism while opening new spaces of mediation between cultures, identities, and histories. Against the broader horizon of contemporary Iranian women's art, the volume investigate memory, exile, and resistance, showing how artistic and philosophical practices can recover silenced voices and challenge dominant narratives.

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Francesca Iannelli is Full Professor of Aesthetics at Roma Tre University, where she teaches Aesthetics, Didactics of Philosophy, and Aesthetics of German Idealism. Since 2020, she has coordinated the BA in Communication Sciences and the MA in Cognitive Sciences. She has held research fellowships at the DLA Marbach, Humboldt University Berlin and IZEA, and received the Lucio Colletti Prize (2004) and the DAAD Ladislao Mittner Prize (2014). She currently directs "Hegel Now!" and co-coordinates the international network "Hegel Art Net".. Chiara Magni holds a PhD in Philosophy from Roma Tre University and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Following a Post-doc fellowship at Roma Tre within the PRIN project "Hegelian Constellations of the Feminine", she is currently a research assistant at the University of Salzburg. Her research focuses on Hegel's philosophy of right, especially punishment theory and its relevance to contemporary ethical debates.. Gioia Sili is Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at Roma Tre University. She obtained her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Calabria in 2025. She was a postdoctoral researcher in Aesthetics at Roma Tre within the PRIN project "Hegelian Constellations of the Feminine". Her research focuses on aesthetics and philosophy of art.

Francesca Iannelli is Full Professor of Aesthetics at Roma Tre University, where she teaches Aesthetics, Didactics of Philosophy, and Aesthetics of German Idealism. Since 2020, she has coordinated the BA in Communication Sciences and the MA in Cognitive Sciences. She has held research fellowships at the DLA Marbach, Humboldt University Berlin and IZEA, and received the Lucio Colletti Prize (2004) and the DAAD Ladislao Mittner Prize (2014). She currently directs "Hegel Now!" and co-coordinates the international network "Hegel Art Net".

Chiara Magni holds a PhD in Philosophy from Roma Tre University and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Following a Post-doc fellowship at Roma Tre within the PRIN project "Hegelian Constellations of the Feminine", she is currently a research assistant at the University of Salzburg. Her research focuses on Hegel's philosophy of right, especially punishment theory and its relevance to contemporary ethical debates.

Gioia Sili is Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at Roma Tre University. She obtained her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Calabria in 2025. She was a postdoctoral researcher in Aesthetics at Roma Tre within the PRIN project "Hegelian Constellations of the Feminine". Her research focuses on aesthetics and philosophy of art.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mimesis
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8869775739
• ISBN 13: 9788869775734
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202