Massimo Cacciari è un filosofo italiano di spicco il cui lavoro si addentra profondamente nell'estetica, nella filosofia politica e nella storia del pensiero. I suoi scritti esplorano temi complessi come il tempo, il linguaggio e la natura della legge, stabilendo spesso connessioni con la letteratura e l'arte classiche e contemporanee. Lo stile distintivo di Cacciari presenta riflessioni rigorose ma poetiche che sfidano i lettori a contemplare questioni fondamentali dell'esistenza e della società umana. Le sue idee risuonano in diverse discipline, offrendo una prospettiva unica sulla cultura e sulla filosofia.
L'uomo senza qualità di Robert Musil riflette l'uomo contemporaneo, per cui il mondo di ieri, con le sue illusioni di armonia, di compiutezza, con le sue pretese di esattezza da ricercare in ogni campo, è finito per sempre. Vie di uscita non ve ne sono, vie soltanto, che dovremo costruire mentre si va, si cerca
Cacciari discusses Vienna at a crucial turning point in Western thinking, as the 19th century ended, treating this extraordinarily rich concentration of people and events as the hub upon which wheeled into the 20th century.
Exploring the intricate layers of Dante's Divine Comedy, this collection features nine insightful essays that delve into the poet's political theology. Written by a prominent contemporary Italian philosopher, the essays illuminate Dante's profound reflections on morality, justice, and the human experience, offering a fresh perspective on his timeless work. Each essay serves to deepen the reader's understanding of Dante's influence on philosophy and politics, making it a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts alike.
The author is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This title offers a collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date.
Assesses the current situation of Europe ten years after the adoption of the single currency. Examines the genealogy of the idea of Europe from the Greek confrontation with the Asia to the conflict between the Roman Empire and Christianity. Discusses the role of secularization in the shaping of modern Europe.
One of Italy's best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary political situation. During the dramatic course of the twentieth century, amid the clash of the titans which marked that era, humanity could still think in terms of partisan struggles in which large masses took sides against one another. The new millennium, by contrast, appears to have opened under the guise of generalized insecurity, which pertains not only to the historical and social situation, or to one's personal psychological predicament, but to our very being. The Earth's current faltering and the twilight of every convention that might govern it--where roles, images, and languages become confused by a lack of direction and distance--were already powerfully prophesied in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and later in the works of Kafka and Beckett. In Hamletics, Massimo Cacciari, one of Italy's foremost philosophers and leftist political figures, establishes a dialogue between these fateful authors, exploring the relationship between European nihilism and the aporias of action in the present.
Venedigs streitbarer Bürgermeister Massimo Cacciari legt in diesem Essay eine Tour de force der europäischen Staatsphilosophie vor: von der Geburt der Demokratie in der griechischen Antike, von Augustinus, Machiavelli, Hegel und Nietzsche bis hin zu Martin Heidegger und Carl Schmitt. Eine Antwort darauf, daß der europäische Geist sich der ganzen Welt zu bemächtigen scheint, während seine Unfähigkeit, dieser Welt eine Gestalt zu geben, um so offenkundiger geworden ist.