Cesare Luporini

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Cesare Luporini (born August 20, 1909 in Ferrara , † April 25, 1993 in Florence ) was an Italian philosopher , literary critic and politician .

In the early thirties Luporini studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger in Freiburg and with Nicolai Hartmann in Berlin . He later continued his studies in Florence. He taught history of philosophy at the universities of Cagliari , Pisa and Florence . After an initial interest in existentialism , he became a Marxist and joined the KPI . In addition to Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli , Romano Bilenchi and Marta Chiesi , he was a co-founder of the Società magazine .

Luporini was one of the most important Italian Marx interpreters of the post-war period. In addition, he was interested in a critical reassessment of the philosophical tradition; he published works on Leonardo da Vinci , Voltaire and Kant

The focus of his interest were the questions of the relationship between theory and practice , philosophy and science , the problem of dialectics , the dimension of the historical and the relationship between Hegel and Marx.

Marx interpretation

Luporini defended the historical character of the Marxian categories in relation to the Della Volpe School and accused their representatives of stopping at the separation of Marx and Hegel. In contrast to della Volpe, Luporini did not understand dialectical movement as a movement from the concrete to the abstract and then back to the concrete; Rather, in Luporini's view, Marxian thinking begins with the abstract and ends there again.

Works (selection)

  • Situazione e libertà nell 'esistenza umana , Florence 1941.
  • Filosofi vecchi e nuovi. Kant, Fichte, Scheler, Hegel, Leopardi , Florence 1947.
  • La mente di Leonardo , Florence 1953.
  • Voltaire e le "Lettres philoophiques" , Florence 1955.
  • Spazio e materia in Kant , Florence 1961.
  • The 'roots' of moral life. In: Morals and Society. Contributions by Karel Kosík, Jean-Paul Sartre, Cesare Luporini, Roger Garaudy, Galvano della Volpe, Mihailo Marković and Adam Schaff , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1968, pp. 36–57. [CL's essay was translated by Karin Monte.]
  • Karl Marx - Communism and Dialectics. [Two essays] , translated from Italian by Anneheide Ascheri, edited [and with a foreword] by Furio Cerutti, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main / Cologne 1974.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filosofi vecchi e nuovi , Florence 1947; La mente die Leonardo , Florence 1953; Voltaire e le Lettres philosophiques , Florence 1955
  2. ↑ On the importance of Luporini for Italian post-war Marxism cf. Predrag Vranicki : History of Marxism , Vol. 2, pp. 956-958 and Jan Hoff: Marx global. On the development of the international Marx discourse since 1965. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-05-004611-2 , p. 148.
  3. ↑ Cf. Cesare Luporini: Il circulo concreto-atratto-concreto , Rinascita 1962, No. 24
personal data
SURNAME Luporini, Cesare
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philosopher, literary critic and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrara
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1993
Place of death Florence