Modern philosophy, cultural management and research into failure are at the heart of Valerio Rocco’s career. Since 2019, he has been director of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and Professor of the History of Modern Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he obtained his PhD in 2011. At the same university, he was Vice-Dean for Research, Knowledge Transfer and Library Services at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts from 2015 to 2019. He is currently a task leader for the European Horizon 2020 project FAILURE, dedicated to the concept of failure and its reversibility. He has published the monograph La vieja Roma en el joven Hegel, the critical edition of Franco Volpi’s posthumous work on Heidegger, and has edited several collective volumes on the philosophy of history, political philosophy and German idealism.