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Federico Ferrari
Born	(1969-09-15) 15 September 1969 (age 54) Milan, Italy
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy
Main interests	Aesthetics
Notable ideas	Arte essenziale

Federico Ferrari (born 15 September 1969) is an Italian philosopher and art critic. He teaches Philosophy of Art at Brera Academy, in Milan, Italy. ^[1]

Under the influence of Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy he has published many essays on philosophy, as well as literature. He has written two books with Jean-Luc Nancy: the first on the subject of nude, ^[2] the second on the iconography of the writer. ^[3] More recently, he has focused on the ontological state of the image, the deconstruction of the museum in postmodernity, and the question of art and/or in time. ^{[4] [5]} In 2011 he theorized the aesthetics of "Arte Essenziale", which manifested itself in the show held at Collezione Maramotti ( Reggio Emilia, Italy) and at Frankfurter Kunstverein (Germany). ^[6] Eugenio Viola writes of Ferrari, "In a time when many continue to lament what they see as the inexorable decline of theory’s role in criticism, "Arte essenziale" (Essential Art), curated by philosopher Federico Ferrari, does its part to placate concerns with an exploration of the ties that link artistic practice and philosophical speculation. The show focuses on the Wesen, or essence, of a work of art—a notion that has always been inextricably linked with a search for the new." ^[7]

• La comunità errante. Bataille e l’esperienza comunitaria, Milano, Lanfranchi, 1997 ISBN  978-88-363-0066-2
• Nudità. Per una critica silenziosa, Milano, Lanfranchi, 1999 ISBN  978-88-363-0068-6
• Wolfgang Laib, Venezia, West Zone 1999
• Nus sommes. La peau des images, with Jean-Luc Nancy, Paris, Klincksieck 2002 (Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2003; Berlin-Zűrich, Diaphanes 2006). Trans. Anne O'Byrne and Carlie Anglemire as "Being Nude The Skin of Images", New York, Fordham University Press, (2014) ISBN  9780823256204
• Lo spazio critico. Note per una decostruzione dell’istituzione museale, Roma, Sossella, 2004 (with Johannes Cladders, Rosalind Krauss, Federico Nicolao, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Giulio Paolini, Claudio Parmiggiani, Harald Szeemann) ISBN  978-88-87995-82-4
• La convocazione, with Tomas Maia e Federico Nicolao, Genova, Chorus, 2006
• Costellazioni. Saggi sull'immagine, il tempo e la memoria, Milano, Lanfranchi, 2006 ISBN  978-88-363-0075-4
• Iconographie dell'auteur, with Jean-Luc Nancy, Paris, Galilée 2005 (Roma, Sossella, 2006; Tokyo, Chikuma Shobo 2008) ISBN  978-88-89829-11-0
• Del contemporaneo. Saggi su arte e tempo, with Jean-Luc Nancy, Georges Didi-Huberman, Nathalie Heinich, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Milano 2007, Pearson Paravia Bruno Mondadori
• Sub specie aeternitatis. Arte ed etica, Reggio Emilia, Diabasis, 2008 ISBN  978-88-8103-524-3
• Il re è nudo. Aristocrazia e anarchia dell'arte, Roma, Sossella, 2011 ISBN  978-88-89829-94-3
• Arte essenziale, Milano, Silvana, 2011 ISBN  978-88-3662-055-5
• L'insieme vuoto. Per una pragmatica dell'immagine, Milano, Johan & Levi, 2013 ISBN  9788860100924
• L'anarca, Milano, Mimesis, 2014 ISBN  9788857526898
• La fin des fins. Scène en deux actes, with Jean-Luc Nancy, Nantes, Éditions Cécile Defaut, 2015 ISBN  9782350183664
• Visioni. Scritti sull'arte, Milano, Lanfranchi, 2016 ISBN  978-8836300815
• Oscillazioni. Frammenti di un'autobiografia, Milano, SE, 2016 ISBN  9788867232116

• Ferrari, Federico. Arte essenziale. Collezione Maramotti. 2011. (Italian)