Beniamino Fortis received his philosophical training in Italy, then refined his skills in various countries such as Germany, the United States, Austria, and the United Kingdom. His work has focused, on the one hand, on issues of aesthetics and image theory, and on the other, on topics related to Jewish thought. His current project on the theme of idolatry combines these two main lines of research.

• https://beniaminofortis.academia.edu/
• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2694-191X

• 19th and 20th Continental Philosophy
• Aesthetics - Philosophy of Art - Picture Theory
• Philosophy of Religion
• Modern Jewish Thought
• Modern Italian Philosophy
• Antisemitism and Philosophy

Monographs

• 2019 Tertium Datur. A Reading of Rosenzweig’s ‘New Thinking’. Berlin: Peter Lang.
• 2012 Iconico / Aniconico. Un percorso nell’estetica e nella teoria dell’arte. Roma: Aracne.

Edited Volumes & Journal Issues

• 2024 (with Ellen Rinner and Lars Tittmar), Philosophy and Jewish Thought. Theoretical Intersections. Bielefeld: Transcript.
• 2023 ‘Relation in Judaism – Judaism in Relation’. Special Issue of European Judaism, 56.2.
• 2022 Bild und Idol. Perspektiven aus Philosophie und jüdischem Denken. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Articles & Book Chapters

• 2025 Idolatry and Art. Emmanuel Levinas’s View. International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, forthcoming (peer reviewed).
• 2025 Gaze Matters: Reflections on Pictorial Idolatry. Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion, 4, 62-92 (peer reviewed).
• 2024 Idolatry and Freedom. Erich Fromm’s View. In Philosophy and Jewish Thought. Theoretical Intersections, B. Fortis, E. Rinner, L. Tittmar eds. Bielefeld: Transcript, 63-84 (peer reviewed).
• 2023 The “Idolatry” Paradigm: Between Literal Meaning and Figurative Extension. Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione, 3, 166-186 (peer reviewed).
• 2023 From representation to power: the Bilderverbot reconsidered. International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 84.3-4, 275-293 (peer reviewed).
• 2023 Introduction. In ‘Relation in Judaism - Judaism in Relation’, Special Issue of European Judaism, 56.2, B. Fortis ed., 1-7 (peer reviewed).
• 2023 Idolatry and Relation. Martin Buber’s View. In ‘Relation in Judaism – Judaism in Relation’, Special Issue of European Judaism, 56.2, B. Fortis ed., 8-19 (peer reviewed).
• 2022 Einführung. In Bild und Idol. Perspektiven aus Philosophie und jüdischem Denken, B. Fortis ed. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 7-18 (peer reviewed).
• 2022 Jüdischer Anikonismus. Kritische Rekonstruktion eines Missverständnisses von Kant und Hegel bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. In Bild und Idol. Perspektiven aus Philosophie und jüdischem Denken, B. Fortis ed. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 19-47 (peer reviewed).
• 2021 Die ‚Geretteten‘ im Denken Primo Levis. Eine philosophische Perspektive. Jahrbuch Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, 7, 103- 113 (peer reviewed).
• 2018 Rosenzweigs ‚neues Denken‘ zwischen Philosophie und Theologie. In Bibel – Israel – Kirche. Studien zur jüdisch-christlichen Begegnung, S. Han, A. Middelbeck-Varwick, M. Thurau eds. Münster: Aschendorff, 413-428 (invited).
• 2012 Trauerspiel e tragedia. Paradigmi di pensiero per la filosofia contemporanea. In Frammenti di Novecento, I. Pozzoni ed. Milano: Limina Mentis, 35-55 (invited).
• 2012 Erweiterung der Ästhetik und Kunst ohne Werke. Critica. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Kunsttheorie, 2, 2-18 (invited).
• 2012 ‘Grenzüberschreitung’. Ein Leitmotiv der heutigen Kunst und Ästhetik. In Crossing Borders. Grenzen (über)denken. Beiträge zum 9. Internationalen Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie in Wien, A. Dunshirn, E. Nemeth, G. Unterthurner eds. Wien: Phaidra, 657-667 (invited).
• 2011 Merleau-Ponty. Percezione, visibilità, pensiero estetico. In Divenire di Merleau- Ponty. Filosofia di un soggetto incarnato, R. Lanfredini ed. Milano: Guerini e Associati, 117-129 (invited).
• 2011 Philosophy and Jewish Thought. A Comparative Path. Iris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate, 6, 127-138 (peer reviewed).
• 2010 ‘Il nulla è qualcosa’. Sulla questione ontologica in Franz Rosenzweig. Iride. Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica, 59, 17-33 (peer reviewed).
• 2010 Thinking the Future. Death and Redemption. Heidegger and Rosenzweig. Daímon. Revista Internacional de Filosofía, Sup. 3, 249-256 (invited).
• 2009 L’immagine interdetta. Sull’attualità dell’aniconismo ebraico per l’estetica contemporanea. Ágalma. Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica, 17, 52-62 (peer reviewed).
• 2008 Estetico e storico. Un dizionario di estetica e la ‘storia concettuale’. Ágalma. Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica, 16, 96-114 (peer reviewed).
• 2008 Il linguaggio, la carne, la notte. Ontologia ed estetica in Heidegger e Merleau- Ponty. Estetica, 2, 57-76 (peer reviewed).
• 2007 Il tempo dell’esilio. Rosenzweig tra metafisica e nichilismo. Estetica, 2, 77-94 (peer reviewed).

Book Reviews

• 2008 ‘Paragrana. Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie’, Band 16, Heft 1, ‘Muße’. Ágalma. Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica, 15, 122-128.
• 2007 Marcel Hénaff, Le Prix de la Vérité: Le don, l’argent, la philosophie. Ágalma. Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica, 14, 108-110.