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Biographical note
Vincenzo Mele is Associate Professor of General Sociology at the University of Pisa, Department of Political Science. He is author of Metropolis: Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin and Modernity (2011), Aesthetics and Social Theory: Simmel, Benjamin, Adorno, Bourdieu (2013), Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Actions, Paradigms (co-edited with M. Vujnovic, 2015). His main research interests are in history and sociological theory, critical theory, sociological aesthetics, sociology of the imaginary. He was member of the scientific committee of the AIS (Italian Sociological Association) - Section Sociological Theories (2016-2019). He is editor of the journal Simmel Studies.