Introduction: Being Cool Ain’t Easy

Authors

• Gioia Laura Iannilli Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"- Università di Bologna
  She is a PhD candidate in Aesthetics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Philosophical-Social Sciences). She holds a PhD in Aesthetics from the University of Bologna (Architecture), from which she also received an MA in Visual Arts and a BA in Philosophy. Her areas of expertise are Everyday Aesthetics, Design Aesthetics, Fashion Aesthetics and Deweyan Aesthetics. She has presented her research in the framework of international conferences and authored a book, L’estetico e il quotidiano: Design, Everyday Aesthetics, esperienza (2019), and essays and book chapters on these topics. She is currently book review editor of Studi di Estetica – Italian Journal of Aesthetics, and member of the editorial board of the “International Lexicon of Aesthetics”.
• Stefano Marino Università di Bologna
  He is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna. His main research interests include critical theory, philosophical hermeneutics, neopragmatism, somaesthetics, philosophy of music and aesthetics of fashion. He is the author of various books, among which Le verità del non-vero. Tre studi su Adorno, teoria critica ed estetica (2019), Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language: Essays on Heidegger and Gadamer (2015), Aufklärung in einer Krisenzeit: Ästhetik, Ethik und Metaphysik bei Theodor W. Adorno (2015), La filosofia di Frank Zappa. Un’interpretazione adorniana (2014), Gadamer and the Limits of the Modern Techno-Scientific Civili­zation (2011). He has translated from German into Italian, or from English into Italian, books of Theodor W. Adorno, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Carolyn Korsmeyer, and he has co-edited (or is currently working at as co-editor) several collections of essays on Kant, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Adorno, fashion, feminism, popular culture, rock music and jazz.