Massimo Cacciari

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Massimo Cacciari (2012)

Massimo Cacciari (born June 5, 1944 in Venice ) is an Italian philosopher and politician. He was Mayor of Venice from 1993 to 2000 and from 2005 to 2010 .

Life

philosopher

Cacciari (left) with the director Roberto Andò , 2018

Massimo Cacciari attended the Liceo Classico Marco Polo in his native city. In 1967 he completed his studies in philosophy at the University of Padua . His work dealt with the criticism of the judgment of Immanuel Kant . His doctoral supervisor was Dino Formaggio, with whom he worked as an assistant. He then worked with Carlo Diano in Letteratura e Filosofia greca and with Professor Sergio Bettini in aesthetics and art history . 1970 to 1971 he taught at the University of Architecture in Venice where he met Manfredo Tafuri . In 1980 he was given a permanent position and in 1985 an appointment in the field of aesthetics.

In 2002 he founded the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Vita-Salute San Raffale in Cesano Maderno (Milan). He headed it until 2005. At the same time he remained director of the Philosophical Faculty of the Architecture Academy of the University of Lugano from 1998 to 2006 . He also founded various philosophical journals, such as Angelus Novus (1964–1971), Contropiano (1968–1971), Laboratorio politico (1981–1985), Il Centauro (1981–1986) Paradosso (1990–2000). In addition, he ran the Italian editions of the works of Georg Lukács and Hugo von Hofmannsthal .

The focus of his work is the crisis of modern reason. His works Krisis (1976), then Pensiero negativo e razionalizzazione (1977), Icone della legge (1985), then L'angelo necessario (1986), and Della cosa ultima (2004) reflect his path to an almost religious interpretation.

He is a member of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici of Naples and of the Collège international de philosophie in Paris .

Politician

At a young age Cacciari was part of the left-wing Potere operaio (workers' power), also wrote for their magazine Classe Operaia (until 1968), then joined the Communist Party of Italy . He was the provincial secretary of the Chemical Workers Union. In 1976 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and was a member of it until July 1983. After Enrico Berlinguer's death (1984), he resigned from the PCI.

Massimo Cacciari had a close artistic and political collaboration with the composer Luigi Nono since the late 1970s . He also wrote the libretto for Io, frammento dal Prometeo (1981) and Prometeo for him. Tragedia dell'ascolto (1984/1985).

In 1993 Cacciari was elected mayor of Venice with 42.3% of the votes in the first ballot and 55.4% in the runoff election as a non-party candidate of the left-wing alleanza dei Progressisti (supported by PDS , PRC , Verdi ). In the 1997 local elections - this time supported by a broad center-left alliance ( L'Ulivo ) - he was re-elected in the first ballot with 64.6% of the vote. In addition to his Roman counterpart Francesco Rutelli , Cacciari was a leading representative of Centocittà (" One Hundred Cities"), a network of mayors who were close to Romano Prodi's center-left L'Ulivo ("The Olive Tree"). Centocittà went in 1999 in the Prodi initiated, social liberal party I Democratici .

In the European elections in 1999 Cacciari was elected to the European Parliament for the Democratici , where he belonged to the liberal ELDR group . At the end of February 2000, he resigned his mayor's office. He was followed by his party colleague Paolo Costa . Cacciari was at the time a candidate for a leading role in the L'Ulivo alliance. However, he suffered a defeat when he ran for the Presidency of the Veneto Region in April 2000 , for which he also gave up his seat in the European Parliament. He lost 38.2% of the vote to the candidate of the center-right alliance Polo per le Libertà , Giancarlo Galan ( Forza Italia ), who achieved 54.9%. Cacciari became a member ( Consigliere Regionale ) of the regional parliament.

Cacciari in 2008

In 2005, Cacciari surprisingly announced his renewed candidacy for the office of Mayor of Venice. The center-left camp was split in the power struggle between Cacciari and former prosecutor Felice Casson . Cacciari enjoyed the support of the social-liberal Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita , in which the Democratici had now merged, while Casson enjoyed the support of the social- democratic DS , the Communists and the Greens. In the first ballot, when Casson got 37.7% and Cacciari only 23.2%, it looked like a defeat. With a lead of around 1,300 votes, however, he won the runoff election (with 50.5%). Cacciari then led a complicated coalition of the center and the left.

On November 2, 2009, Cacciari announced his retirement from politics, he wanted to return to university and not to run again in the 2010 elections. He was succeeded in April 2010 by Giorgio Orsoni , who surprisingly won the election against Berlusconi's candidate, Renato Brunetta .

As mayor, he was President of the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice and Vice-President of the Foundation for the Venice Biennale .

On July 23, 2010, Cacciari presented the Manifesto Verso Nord, un'Italia più vicina , which was addressed to those disappointed by both the Partito Democratico and the Popolo della Libertà to pursue a policy for the north of Italy at the same time distanced himself from the Lega Nord. On October 12, 2010, the Verso Nord party was formally founded. This advocates a federalization of Italy, a “light” state and a different distribution of tax revenue. The mayor of Vicenza, Achille Variati , and the constitutional lawyer Mario Bertolissi also took part. The leadership of the party did not take over Cacciari, but Alessio Vianello.

Awards and honors

Cacciari holds an honorary doctorate in architecture from the University of Genoa since October 2003, and in political science from the University of Bucharest since 2007.

In 1999 he received the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, in 2002 the Friedrich Gundolf Prize for conveying German culture abroad, in 2005 the Medalla de Oro for the fine arts in Madrid, and in 2008 the Grand Officer's Cross of the Pro Merito Melitensi Order of Merit of the Sovereign Order of Malta .

Works

Monographs

  • Sulla genesi del pensiero negativo . 1968.
  • Qualification and class consciousness (= Qualificazione e composizione di classe , 1970), (= New Criticism series . Volume 2). Frankfurt a. M. 1970.
  • On the problem of organization in Germany. In: Sergio Bologna, Massimo Cacciari: Composition of the working class and organizational question (= International Marxist Discussion . Volume 35). Berlin 1973, pp. 53–129 (= Sul problema dell 'organizzazione Germania 1917-1921 . Introduction to the Italian edition of Georg Lukácss Schriften (1920–21) in Communism , Marsilio, Padua 1972.).
  • Ristrutturazione e analisi di classe . Padua 1973.
  • Metropolis . Rome 1973.
  • together with Francesco Amendolagine: Oikos. Da Loos a Wittgenstein . Rome 1975.
  • Crisis. Saggio sulla crisi del pensiero negativo da Nietzsche and Wittgenstein . Feltrinelli, Milan 1976. 8th edition 1983.
  • Pensiero negativo e razionalizzazione . Marsilio, Padua 1977.
  • Dialettica e critica dell politico, saggio su Hegel . Feltrinelli, Milan 1978.
  • Dallo Steinhof. Prospettive viennesi del primo Novecento . Milan 1980.
  • Icons of the law . Translated and with an afterword by Nils Röller. Paderborn, Fink 2018 (= Icone della Legge . Adelphi, Milan 1985. Last edition 2007).
  • L'angelo necessario . 6th edition. Adelphi, Milan 1986.
  • Time without Kronos . Ritter, Klagenfurt 1986, ISBN 978-3-85415-035-0 .
  • The necessary angel . Ritter, Klagenfurt 1987 (= L'Angelo necessario . 1986), ISBN 978-3-85415-046-6 .
  • Drama y duelo . Tecnos 1987.
  • Dell'inizio . Adelphi Milan 1990. Revised edition 2001.
  • On it, Méridiéns de la décision . Editions de L'Eclat, 1992.
  • Geo-filosofia dell'Europa . Adelphi, Milan 1994.
  • Migrants - Edmond Jabès, Luigi Nono, Massimo Cacciari . Edited by Nils Röller in collaboration with Massimo Cacciari. Merve, Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-88396-126-2 .
  • Big city. Architecture, nihilism. Essay . Ritter, Klagenfurt 1995, ISBN 3-85415-146-2 .
  • Violence and harmony. Geo-Philosophy of Europe . Hanser ( Edition Akzente ), Munich 1995 (= Geo-filosofia dell 'Europa . 1994).
  • L'arcipelago . Adelphi, Milan 1997.
  • The Europe archipelago . DuMont, Cologne 1998 (= L'arcipelago . 1997).
  • Le dieu qui danse . Grasset 2000.
  • Adolf Loos e il suo angelo . Electa, Milan 2002.
  • Living, thinking, the question of the place . Ritter, Klagenfurt 2002, ISBN 978-3-85415-304-7 .
  • La città . Rimini 2004.
  • Della cosa ultima . Adelphi, Milan 2004.
  • Magis Amicus Leopardi . Caserta 2005.

Editor, translator

Magazines

  • Angelus Novus (Ed. With Cesare de Michelis), 1964–1966.
  • Classe Operaia and
  • Potere Operaio , collaboration until 1968.
  • Contropiano (Ed. With Alberto Aso Rosa, published numerous articles there), 1968–1971

Libretti / text collages for Luigi Nono

literature

  • Gianluca De Candia : The beginning as freedom. Massimo Cacciari's way of thinking in the field of tension between philosophy and theology (= Scientia & Religio . Volume 18). Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2019, ISBN 3-495-49061-2 (first comprehensive German-language monograph on Massimo Cacciari).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Editorial note in S. Bologna and M. Cacciari, Composition of the Working Class and Organizational Question, Merve, Berlin, 1973, p. 130
  2. ↑ Cacciari discussed intensively with Nono from 1976 to 1979, he put together text collages for Nono works, Jürg Stenzl mentions Quando stanno morendo (for Poland) and Guai ai gelidi mostri (the state as the coldest monster), dedicated to Luigi Nono his song cycle Risonanze erranti (1986) Massimo Cacciari. Jürg Stenzl: Luigi Nono. Rowohlt, Reinbek b. Hamburg 1998, pp. 92f., 100, 103 u. 118ff.
  3. ↑ Cacciari boccia il Pd: "Progetto fallito, io non sarò mai moderato o di centro". In: Il Gazzettino . November 4, 2009.
  4. ↑ Cacciari lancia Verso North Ma non siamo il terzo polo. In: La Repubblica. July 24, 2010.
  5. ↑ Nasce "Verso Nord» Pronto il manifesto anti-Lega. Da Cacciari a Miracco, fondatori trasversali. "Pdl e Pd in ​​crisi". Il Carroccio: siete delle mummie. In: Corriere del Veneto. undated
  6. ↑ Order of Merit  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.orderofmalta.org
predecessor Office successor

Ugo Bergamo
Paolo Costa 		Mayor of Venice
1993–2000
2005–2010
Paolo Costa
Giorgio Orsoni
personal data
SURNAME Cacciari, Massimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philosopher, politician, MEP and Mayor of Venice
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice