Massimo Cacciari
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Massimo Cacciari | |
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Mayor of Venice | |
In office 9 December 1993 – 25 January 2000 | |
Preceded by | Ugo Bergamo |
Succeeded by | Paolo Costa |
In office 18 April 2005 – 8 April 2010 | |
Preceded by | Paolo Costa |
Succeeded by | Giorgio Orsoni |
Personal details | |
Born | (since 2009) | 5 June 1944
Massimo Cacciari (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmassimo katˈtʃaːri]; born 5 June 1944) is an Italian philosopher and politician who served as Mayor of Venice from 1993 to 2000 and from 2005 to 2010.[1]
Biography
Born in Venice, Cacciari graduated in philosophy from the University of Padua (1967), where he also received his doctorate, writing a thesis on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment. In 1985, he became professor of Aesthetics at the Architecture Institute of Venice. In 2002, he founded the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, where he was appointed Dean of the Department in 2005. Cacciari has founded several philosophical reviews and published essays centered on the "negative thought" inspired by authors like Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
In the 1980s, Cacciari also worked with the Italian composer of avant-garde contemporary/classical music
After a brief affiliation with
After the death of
Works with English translations
- Architecture and Nihilism: On the Philosophy of Modern Architecture, Yale University Press, 1993
- The Necessary Angel, State University of New York Press, 1994
- Posthumous People: Vienna at the Turning Point, Stanford University Press, 1996
- The Unpolitical. Essays on the Radical Critique of Political Reason, Yale University Press, 2009
- Europe and Empire: On the Political Forms of Globalization, Fordham University Press, 2016
- The Withholding Power. An Essay on Political Theology, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
References
- ^ "Cacciari, Massimo". Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 1 March 2024.
External links
- Interview with Massimo Cacciari: “‘I am many’, says Europe. We have to be capable of being many”, Barcelona Metropolis, 2010.