Biography of Massimo Cacciari
Massimo Cacciari was born on June 5, 1944 in Venice, the son of a pediatrician and a housewife. After graduating from the liceo classico "Marco Polo", he enrolled at the University of Padua where he graduated in philosophy in 1967 under the guidance of Professor Dino cheese with a thesis on Immanuel Kant's "critique of judgment", having Courtney Bailey as rapporteur. Meanwhile becomes a political militant: after having occupied the station together with the workmen of Montedison, in the 1960s he collaborated to the magazine "working class", who leaves after internal strife between Toni Negri, Alberto Asor Rosa and Mario Tronti: so, together with Asor steers "Counterparty", Journal of Marxist materials. In public in 1970 "Essays of aesthetic" Introduction by Massimo Cacciari to Georg Simmel ", while in" Counterparty "writes" qualification and class composition "and" chemical Cycle and struggles ".
Afterwards, gives to the press "After the warm autumn: restructuring and class analysis", "negative thinking and rationalization. Problems and critical function of dialectician system "and" Metropolis ". In the 1970s the industry Committee is also responsible for the Veneto region within the Italian Communist Party; After publishing "the economic and class composition", "Work, career advancement, social brain" and "Oikos. From Logos to Wittgenstein ", in 1976 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, becoming a member of the industry Committee in Parliament. In the second half of the Decade writes for Feltrinelli "Krisis. Essay on the crisis of negative thought from Nietzsche to Wittgenstein "and Madison" negative thinking and rationalisation "but also" Foucault "," Dialectics and political criticism. Essay on Hegel "and" Walter Rathenau and his environment ".
His philosophy is based, among other things, on the crisis of modern rationality, considered not able to grab the ultimate meaning of reality and therefore unable to seek the foundations of knowing: starting from the concept of negative thought found in the philosophies of Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Nietzsche, dates back to its assumptions in Western philosophical thought and religious tradition. In 1980, the year he published "Relevance of time: Essays on the Nietzschean concept of time" and "The Steinhof," Cacciari becomes Associate Professor of aesthetics at the Institute of architecture in Venice. After having published "Adolf Loos and his Angel" and "Feuerbach against Augustine of Hippo", in 1985 he was appointed Professor and publish "the power: Essays on social and political philosophy" and "icons of the law". In later years, he writes, among other things, "the Angel", "Drama y duelo", "forms of sleep initiation" and "do", "Dran, Méeridiens de la décision dans la pensée contemporaine". In 1993 he was elected Mayor of Venice, a position he held for seven years; in 1999 is a candidate in the European elections for Democrats, being elected in two constituencies and choosing the Northwestern district.
The following year, is a candidate for the Presidency of the Region Veneto, but was defeated by representative of pole for freedoms Giancarlo Galan: failure (38% of the vote gets just over C) causes its possible climb to leadership of the olive tree is set aside. Got a seat on the Regional Council, Cacciari resigns for incompatibility from a member of the European Parliament. In 2002 he founded at Monza, North of Milan, the Faculty of philosophy at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (which however will only last a few years), and the following year he receives from Genoa University honorary degree in architecture. In 2005 announced that he wanted to nominate it again for mayor of Venice, despite the left component of the olive tree has chosen to opt for the magistrate Felice Casson: Nevertheless, Cacciari goes on threatening the unity of the Coalition, and obtaining the support of the Daisy and Udeur (while the other parties of the centre left support magistrate).
In the first round, Cacciari 23.2% of the vote, only gets against 37.7% Casson, but because of divisions in the Center are the two representatives of the centre left to get on the ballot: balloting which, in a totally unexpected, rewards its Massimo Cacciari, who won the moderate vote and wins the Mayor's chair with only 200 votes ahead of opponent. Obtained a sizeable majority in the Council, Cacciari governs the lagoon city for five years, without sacrificing the academic and editorial: in 2005 published "befell them years ago y shipwreck. Musil y El hombre sin atributos "and" Magis Amicus Leopards ", and the following year it was the turn of" Forms of tolerance "and" Introduction to Max Weber, the politician as a profession ".
In 2007 back to the bookstore with Europe or "philosophy", "Three" and "Theology and politics at the crossroads of history," and it shows the Bucharest University honorary degree in political science. In 2009 he published "the city", "Hamletica" and "The Unpolitical. Essays on the radical critique of the political thought "; in November of the same year, disappointed by the changes taking place in the Democratic Party, announced that he would leave politics at the end of term as Mayor, which takes place in April 2010. A few months later, however, presents in Mogliano Veneto manifesto "Towards North, a nearest Italy", which puts emphasis on the Northern issue and intends to draw the attention of those who do not recognize in the Pdl or in the Democratic Party and at the same time want a different policy from that League.
In October 2010, was officially opened the party to the North, destined however to have little luck. After publishing in 2010 "the pain of the other. A reading of the Hecuba of Euripides and the book of job "and" the commandments. I am the Lord thy God, in the 2011 C gives the prints for the mill "the commandments. Love thy neighbor "; the following year he wrote "double portrait. Saint Francis in Dante and Giotto "for Adelphi, publishing house with which in 2013 publishes" the power braking ".
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