Anacleto Verrecchia

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Anacleto Verrecchia (2010)

Anacleto Verrecchia (born September 15, 1926 in Vallerotonda / Province of Frosinone, † February 4, 2012 in Turin ) was an Italian philosopher, cultural critic and essayist.

life and work

Verrecchia received his doctorate in German from the University of Turin and deepened his studies during repeated visits to Germany, especially in Berlin, where he was almost at home. Later he worked for many years at the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna. Verrecchia was the author of numerous books which received considerable attention in Italy and abroad. The author saw himself as an apolitical person: Politics is a low form of mental activity. He repeatedly grappled with Schopenhauer in particular, as well as Nietzsche and Lichtenberg . He lived in Turin for a long time.

Publications in German

  • Lichtenberg and Volta. In Sudhoffs Archiv , Vol. 51, Issue 4, December 1967.
  • The enchantment. Narrative. In Literature and Criticism, September / October 1987, No. 217/218.
  • Zarathustra's end. Nietzsche's catastrophe in Turin, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna and Cologne, 1986.
  • Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. The heretic of the German spirit, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna and Cologne, 1988.
  • Giordano Bruno. Moth of the Spirit. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Weimar, 1999, ISBN 3-205-98881-7 .

literature

  • Marco Lanterna, Il caleidoscopio infelice. Note sulla letteratura di fine libro , Editrice Clinamen, Firenze, 2015 (Italian).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Addio al filosofo Anacleto Verrecchia. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 6, 2012 (Italian).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / poesia.blog.rainews24.it  
personal data
SURNAME Verrecchia, Anacleto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philosopher, cultural critic and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Vallerotonda
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 2012
Place of death Turin