Maurizio Ferraris isone of the most well-known Italian philosophers. He teaches Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin and he is president of Labont (Centre for Ontology). He directs ‘Scienza Nuova’, the institute of advanced studies that unites the University and the Polytechnic of Turin in the design of a sustainable future. Visiting professor at Harvard, Oxford, Munich, Paris, columnist for “Corriere della Sera” and “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”, author of successful tv programmes and over sixty books translated worldwide, he is the founder of the “New Realism”. Among his publications for Laterza: Documentalità. Perché è necessario lasciar tracce (2009); Mobilitazione totale (2015); Documanità. Filosofia del mondo nuovo (2021); Manifesto del nuovo realismo (n.e. 2022) and, with Guido Saracco, Tecnosofia. Tecnologia e umanesimo per una scienza nuova (2023).