Emmanuel Alloa
Emmanuel Alloa is Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the University of Fribourg. He taught at the Département d'arts plastiques of Paris 8, as well as at the Collège international de Philosophie, held a postdoc position at the NCCR Image Criticism eikones (Basel), and worked as assistant professor of philosophy at the University of St. Gallen. Various visiting professorships and fellowships have taken him to diverse international institutions such as the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University (New York), Universidad San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Mexico), UFMG Belo Horizonte (Brazil), IKKM at Bauhaus University Weimar, University of Vienna, Torino, UC Berkeley and Yale. His work has received several awards, including the 2016 Latsis Prize and the 2019 Aby Warburg Wissenschaftspreis.
He (co)directs the series Perceptions, Medias/Theories, and esthetique:critique (Presses du réel), and Contemporary Perspectives in European Philosophy (Fink/Brill). Emmanuel Alloa currently serves as Vice President of the German Society for Aesthetics.
His monographs include: Looking Through Images. A Phenomenology of Visual Media, Columbia UP, 2021; A Imagem do Corpo – a corpo do imagem, Zouk, 2021; The Share of Perspective, Routledge, 2024; La résistance du sensible. Merleau-Ponty critique de la transparence, Vrin, 2025.