Fernando Bayón (Bilbao, 1971). Ph.D. in Philosophy of Art. Professor of “History of Philosophy in the Modern Era: Idealism and Dialectics” in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Deusto, where he serves as Vice Dean for Research, Graduate Studies, and Institutes and Director of the Institute for Leisure Studies. He has served as a visiting professor and/or researcher at the universities of Tübingen, Zurich, Yale, Princeton, Fordham in New York, Iberoamericana and Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, and the Warburg Institute in London, as well as at Cambridge and Oxford. He is the principal investigator of the PÚBLICUM research project (Audiences in Transformation). His publications focus on the relationships between audiovisual discourses, musical drama, and the construction of the European political space in the wake of the crisis of modernity. His books include *The Prohibition of Love: Subject, Culture, and Artistic Form in Thomas Mann* and *Philosophy and Legend: Variations on Late Modernity (from Tolstoy to Musil)*.
