Giuseppe Ferrari (philosopher)

Giuseppe Ferrari

Giuseppe Ferrari (born March 7, 1811 in Milan , † July 1, 1876 in Rome ) was an Italian historian , philosopher and politician .

Ferrari studied in Pavia , where he stayed at the College Borromeo boarding school. He then lived independently of his studies and began his writing career with a treatise on his teacher, the philosopher Giovanni Domenico Romagnosi . This was followed by an edition of the collected works of Giambattista Vico (1835) and some writings in French.

From 1840 he worked as a professor of literature in Rochefort . But he had to give up this post because of his free-thinking direction. In January 1842, on the recommendation of Cousins, he was given the chair of philosophy at the University of Strasbourg ; but after only 18 days he was dropped here at the instigation of the ultramontanes . He published his lectures as Idees sur la politique de Platon et d'Aristote (Paris, 1842).

After the February Revolution of 1848 he was reinstated in his office by Carnot. He then worked in Bourges , but was soon suspended there as well and returned to Italy in 1859, where he became a professor in Turin and Milan . As a member of the Piedmontese parliament, he was a fierce opponent of Cavour's policy of annexation. Uninterrupted deputy since then, he died July 1, 1876 in Rome.

Works

• Collected Works of Vico (1835)
• Vico et Italie (Paris 1839)
• De l'erreur (Paris, 1840)
• De religiosi Campanellae opinionibus (Paris, 1840)
• Essay sur le principe et les limites de la philosophie de l'histoire (Paris, 1843)
• Filosofia de la rivoluzione (Capolago, 1851; 2nd edition Milan, 1873, 2 volumes) - this is his main philosophical work in which he declares the doctrine of the "antinomies" to be "insurmountable" and finally of the insoluble contradictions that arise from the cling to pure thoughts, showing the way out into the reconciling immediacy of real life.
• La federazione republlcana (Capolago 1851) - a presentation of his theory of the free fraternization of peoples, to which he adhered with doctrinal stubbornness.
• L'histoire des revolutlons de l'Italie, ou Guelfes et Glbelins (Paris 1856–58, 4 volumes)
• L'histoire de la raison d'etat (Paris, 1860)
• Storia de la rivoluzione d'Italia (Milan, 1871–73, 3 volumes)
• Teoria de periodi politici (Paris, 1874)

literature

• Anne Bruch: Italy on the way to becoming a nation state. Giuseppe Ferrari's ideas of a federal-democratic order . (= Contributions to German and European history; vol. 33). Krämer, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89622-077-2
• Ulrich Wyrwa : Ferrari, Giuseppe , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/1, 2009, p. 226
• Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy: Der Datierungszwang and Giuseppe Ferrari: in: The secret of the university, Stuttgart 1958, pp. 35–43