Stefano Chiarolla R.D. is doctoral student with a “cotutelle de thèse” projekt between the Pontifical Gregorian University (Faculty of Philosophy) and the University of Vienna (Faculty of Theology). He studied Catholic Theology (Bachelor) at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy and Philosophy (Bachelor, Master) at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
He is a member of the Association “Trialogo – Dizionario Dinamico di Ontologia Trinitaria” and of the Pontifical Academy of Theology. His monograph “Formatività e performatività ‘Esercizi spirituali filosofici’ nell’estetica di Luigi Pareyson” is soon to be published.
His areas of research are metaphysics, aesthetics, anthropology and fundamental theology. His doctoral project, “Aesthetics as Ascetics. Towards the possibility of aesthetics as a way of life” aims to bring aesthetics, as philosophy of human sensibility, into the field of PWL studies, focusing in particular on the ascetic features of philosophy emerging from Pareyson’s and Foucault’s aesthetics.