Luca Di Blasi

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Luca Di Blasi (born November 9, 1967 in Lucerne , Switzerland ) is a German - Italian philosopher .

Life

Di Blasi was born in Lucerne to a German mother and an Italian father. He spent his childhood and youth in Lucerne, northern Italy ( Monza Brianza ), Saarbrücken and in South Tyrol . Di Blasi first studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business . He switched to German studies and philosophy and graduated from Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler with a thesis on Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas at the University of Vienna in 1994 with a master's degree.

Peter Sloterdijk 's Heidegger, Nietzsche and Gnosis seminars in the act hall of the Vienna Academy of the Arts stimulated his interest in mysticism and gnosis as well as the border area between philosophy and religion. In 1995 Di Blasi received a scholarship at the Research Institute for Philosophy in Hanover and was a research assistant to Peter Koslowski and Vittorio Hösle . He was significantly involved in the implementation of a project "for a sustainable relationship with the environment" within the framework of the Expo 2000 in Hanover. In 2001 he received his doctorate at the Catholic University of Eichstätt , the doctoral thesis Der Geist in der Revolte. Gnosticism and its return in postmodernism was published a year later by Fink-Verlag. He completed his habilitation in 2015 at the University of Bern. In 2018 he was appointed associate professor.

Di Blasi is married to the cultural journalist Johanna Di Blasi and lives in Berlin and Bern .

research

From 2003-2006 he was a post-doctoral student on the project “Mysticism and Modernity” at the University of Siegen and was in charge of the topic “Cybermystic”, which dealt with the mystical and gnostic dimensions of the cybernetization of the world and trans- and posthumanist visions. At the same time he was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Flensburg . At the beginning of 2007 he became the academic assistant to the director Christoph Holzhey at the private research and cultural institution Institute of Cultural Inquiry Berlin and was involved in the development of this institute. He teaches philosophy at the Theological Faculty of the University of Bern .

Journalistic

Di Blasi has been a journalist since the late 1990s. Contributions can be found a. for specialist journals ("General Journal for Philosophy", "German Journal for Philosophy", "Yearbook for Philosophy of the Research Institute for Philosophy Hanover", "Journal for Politics"), cultural journals ("Merkur. German Journal for European Thought", "Sinn und Form ”,“ Lettre International ”) and weekly and daily newspapers (DIE ZEIT, NZZ, SZ, HAZ etc.). His main concern is to explore the question of the decentralization of the West in relation to the question of the secular or secular-Christian self-image.

Among other things, he addressed questions of civil religion in Europe. In his article "Al-Qaida made the best videos" for ZEIT, he examined parallels in the self-image of the avant-garde and terrorism. With reference to Boris Groys , he calls terrorists prevented artists who, like the anarchists of Pyotr Kropotkin's time and the historical avant-gardists, fought for media attention. As early as 1939, however, the art critic Clement Greenberg had characterized the pursuit of great effects as kitsch under the motto Avantgarde and Kitsch .

His book The White Man. An anti-manifesto was awarded the GfM Best Publication Award Gender & Media 2014 in October 2014 .

Publications (selection)

Books
  • Decentering. Contributions to the religion of philosophy in the 20th century , Vienna, Berlin (Turia + Kant) 2018, ISBN 978-3851329056 .
  • The white man. An Anti-Manifest , Bielefeld (transcript) 2013, ISBN 978-3837625257 .
  • Wendy Brown , Rainer Forst : The Power of Tolerance. A Debate (together with Chr. Holzhey), Vienna, Berlin (Turia + Kant) and New York (Columbia University Press) 2014, ISBN 978-0231170185 .
  • The Scandal of Self-Contradiction. Pasolini's Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions (jointly edited with M. Grangnolati and Chr. F. Holzhey), Vienna, Berlin (Turia + Kant) 2012.
  • With Boris Groys, Vittorio Hösle : Reason to Power. A dispute (together with Marc Jongen ), Vienna (Turia + Kant) 2011, ISBN 978-3851326536 .
  • Cybermystik (ed.), Munich (Fink) 2006, ISBN 978-3770542185 .
  • The spirit in revolt. Gnosticism and its return in postmodernism , Munich (Fink) 2002, ISBN 3-7705-3735-1 .
  • Sustainability in ecology. Paths to a sustainable world (jointly edited with V. Hösle and B. Goebel), Munich (Beck) 2001, ISBN 3-406-47561-2 .
Essays
  • "Less than Nihilism", in: Nitzan Lebovic, Roy Ben-Shai (eds.), Nihilism and the State of Israel: New Critical Perspectives, London et.al. (Bloomsbury Academic) 2014, pp. 35-49.
  • "Splitting Images. Understanding Irreversible Fractures Through Aspect Change ”, in: CF Holzhey (ed.): Berlin, Vienna (Turia + Kant) 2014.
  • "Circumcisions. Jacques Derrida and the Tensions between Particularism and Universalism ”, in: Verifiche. Rivista di scienze umane, 2013, pp. 9–31.
  • "One Divided by Another. Split and Conversion in Pasolini's San Paolo ”, in: L. Di Blasi, M. Grangnolati, Chr. F. Holzhey (eds.), The Scandal of Self-Contradiction. Pasolini's MultistableSubjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, Berlin, Vienna (Turia + Kant) 2012, pp. 189–207.
  • “Critical Consumption”, in: Lettre International, Summer 2010, pp. 120–122.
  • “Grammatical Theology. A cultural and media-theoretical reading ”, in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 55 (2007) 5, 717–733.
  • “The abyss of determinism”, in: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Stuttgart (Frommann-Holzboog) 2006, pp. 117–130.
  • “The post-colonial tightening. A Critique of Documenta11 ”(together with Johanna Di Blasi), in: Merkur. German magazine for European thinking, 56th volume, issue 644, December 2002, pp. 1131–1137.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luca Di Blasi: On the author , in this: The white man. An Anti-Manifest, Bielefeld (transcript) 2013 , p. 109; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ Di Blasi, Luca (Founding Associate Member, ICI Berlin)
  3. ↑ from the spirit of folk poetry. Johann Gottfried Herder and the mother tongue of humanity ” , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, No. 290, 13./14. December 2003, p. 47., by Luca Di Blasi
  4. ↑ “Unprotected thinking. Cynical chic as a principle of success: Boris Groys “ , in: Merkur. German magazine for European thinking, 57th volume, issue 651, July 2003, pp. 624 - 626., Luca Di Blasi
  5. ↑ “How God did not create them. Redemptive religious patterns in beauty shows ”(together with Johanna Di Blasi), in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 3, 2004.
  6. ↑ Luca Di Blasi "Where dialectics find shelter", in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, weekend edition December 28 and 29, 1996, No. 299, p. 14.
  7. ↑ "Masquerade. There is an advertisement behind every friend. A guest commentary by Luca Di Blasi “ , in: DIE ZEIT, March 10, No.11 / 2011, page 26.
  8. ↑ “Everything is so nice and pointless here. Contemporary art is often pale, empty, and void. Nevertheless, she celebrates great success. How come? ” , In: Die Zeit, 36/2005, p. 44., by Luca Di Blasi
  9. ↑ Luca Di Blasi (2000): "Civil religion and basic anti-fascist consensus", in: Zeitschrift für Politik 47 (4), 369 = 387, review cf. [1]  ( 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: Dead Link / www.gesis.org  
  10. ↑ Al-Qaeda made the best videos. Two years after the New York attacks: There is a deep elective affinity between art and terrorism , in: Die Zeit, No. 34, August 14, 2003, p. 34.
  11. ↑ http://www.gfmedienwissenschaft.de/gfm/news/index.php?TID=1527
  12. ↑ Cultural Inquiry Series , Volume 14
  13. ↑ Isolde Charim: Multiculturalism and the White Man's Drama, FALTER 33/14 of August 13, 2014, p. 18
  14. ↑ Description of the publisher ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.transcript-verlag.de
  15. ^ Socialnet review. The network for social economy
  16. ↑ Review Deutschlandfunk
  17. ^ Review of Deutschlandradio Kultur
  18. ^ Review of the Leipziger Volkszeitung
  19. ↑ Cultural Inquiry Series , Volume 9
  20. ↑ Cultural Inquiry Series , Volume 6
personal data
SURNAME Di Blasi, Luca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne , Switzerland