Giovanna Borradori

Giovanna Borradori (* 1963 in Milan ) is an Italian philosopher living in the USA .

After her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Milan and the Diplôme d'Études Approfondies at the Université de Paris VIII -Vincennes à Saint Denis , Borradori taught at the Polytechnic in Milan and at Columbia University in New York . Since 1995 she teaches at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in New York State and is there since 2000, extraordinary professor of philosophy ( Associate Professor of Philosophy ), since 2005 full professor .

With her anthology Recoding Metaphysics: The New Italian Philosophy , she presented Italian philosophers of the late 20th century such as Gianni Vattimo , Massimo Cacciari , Mario Perniola and Emanuele Severino to the English-speaking audience .

For her work The American Philosopher , published in 1994 , she challenged various philosophers to express their views on their relationship to history, the importance of tradition in philosophy and the positions of pragmatism and logical positivism . It was also published in Portuguese in 2010.

Borradori was best known for her book Philosophy in Times of Terror , for which she conducted interviews with Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas about the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , elaborated on the positions of the two philosophers and placed them in a larger context. The book, written in English in 2003, has been translated into eleven languages: Bulgarian , Danish , French , Hebrew , Italian , Japanese , Indonesian , Dutch , Portuguese , Romanian and Spanish .

Works

• Philosophy in Times of Terror , Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2004. ISBN 3-86572-358-6
• The American Philosopher: Conversations with Quine , Davidson , Putnam , Nozick , Danto , Rorty , Cavell , Macintyre , Kuhn , 1994. ISBN 0-226-06648-7 (English)
• Recoding Metaphysics: The New Italian Philosophy , 1989. ISBN 0-8101-0800-3 (English)
• Il Pensiero Post-Filosofico: Percorsi e Figure della Nuova Teoresi Americana , Jaca Book, Milan 1988. ISBN 88-16-95047-1 (Italian)
• Estetica Americana Contemporanea tra Modernità e Oltrepassamento. Dissertation: Milan 1985 (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vassar College curriculum vitae . Retrieved July 21, 2019
2. ↑ Giovanni Borradori: Recoding Metaphysics: The New Italian Philosophy , 1989. ISBN 0-8101-0800-3
3. ^ Giovanna Borradori: The American Philosopher: Conversations with Quine , Davidson , Putnam , Nozick , Danto , Rorty , Cavell, Macintyre , Kuhn , 1994. ISBN 0-226-06648-7 .
4. ^ Giovanna Borradori: A Filosofia Americana . Editora Unesp, Universidade do Livro, Brazil. ISBN 978-8-571-39454-4
5. ^ Giovanna Borradori: Philosophy in Times of Terror , Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg 2004. ISBN 3-86572-358-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Giovanna Borradori in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Borradori