Paolo Flores d'Arcais

Paolo Flores d'Arcais (born July 11, 1944 in Cervignano del Friuli ) is an Italian philosopher and journalist , editor of the magazine MicroMega . He writes in newspapers such as El País , La Repubblica , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Gazeta Wyborcza and is considered "one of the most important theorists of the contemporary Italian left" .

Life

Paolo Flores D'arcais was with a dissertation on Adam Smith and Karl Marx at the Philosophy Faculty of the University of La Sapienza in Rome doctorate . There he is still teaching and researching.

His greatest role models for his writings are Albert Camus and Hannah Arendt .

He was a key figure in the girotondi citizens' movement in 2002, which emerged in opposition to Berlusconi's judicial law.

Fonts

• Esistenta e libertà: a partire da Hannah Arendt . Genova, Marietti, 1990. ISBN 8821166228
• Etica senza fede . Torino, Einaudi, 1992. ISBN 8806130013
• The individual libertario: percorsi di filosofia morale e politica nell'orizzonte del finito . Torino, Einaudi, 1999. ISBN 8806151398
• Il sovrano e il dissidente. Garzanti, 2004
• Il ventennio populista. Da Craxi a Berlusconi (passando per D'Alema?) . Fazi, 2006. ISBN 8881127504
• Hannah Arendt. Esistenta e libertà, autenticità e politica. Fazi, 2006

German translations:

• Libertarian existentialism. On the topicality of Hannah Arendt's theory. New Critique, Frankfurt am Main, 1993. ISBN 3801502538
• The left and the individual: a political pamphlet . Berlin, Wagenbach 1997. ISBN 3-8031-2283-X
• Take democracy at its word. The sovereign and the dissident . Berlin, Wagenbach 2004. ISBN 3-8031-2496-4
• Is there god Truth, Faith, Atheism. Paolo Flores d'Arcais and Joseph Ratzinger. Berlin, Wagenbach 2006. ISBN 3-8031-2531-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Paolo Flores d'Arcais in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Paolo Flores d'Arcais at perlentaucher.de
• Great reason or a pipe dream. Joseph Ratzinger and Paolo Flores d'Arcais' dispute about the existence of God. Deutschlandradio Kultur, March 15, 2006
• MicroMega website
• Article Undici riflessioni sui movimenti (MicroMega 2/2002).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.literaturfestival.com/bios1_1_6_322.html (accessed March 2008)
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed March 2008) 
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed March 2008)