Lucio Colletti

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Lucio Colletti (born December 8, 1924 in Rome , † November 3, 2001 in Venturina , district of Campiglia Marittima , Livorno province ) was an Italian philosopher and politician . As one of the most important protagonists of structuralist Marxism , he increasingly turned away from the left and moved into parliament for the conservative Forza Italia in the 1990s .

Life

Colletti studied literature and philosophy as a student of Galvano Della Volpes at the University of Messina . Although already a critic of the neo-idealist Benedetto Croce , he wrote his dissertation in 1949 on Croce's logic.

After a teaching position in Messina, he accepted the chair for the history of philosophy at the Sapienza University in Rome in the early 1950s . Like his teacher Della Volpe, Colletti initially represented an anti-idealist position that broke with the Hegelian legacy of the Marxist tradition just as radically as with the idealistic influences of Antonio Gramsci, who was extremely important for Italian Marxism . He exerted a decisive influence on the Italian Marx discussion of the post-war period, for which, among other things, the clarification of the relationship between Marx and Hegel played an important role.

Initially a supporter of the Partito d'Azione and later a member of the Italian Communist Party , after the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution he was one of the 101 intellectuals who demanded that the party distance itself from the Soviet Union. In 1964 he resigned from the PCI. In 1957 he founded the magazine La Sinistra (1957–1967). At the end of the 1960s he initially turned against the Italian student movement and in 1974 renounced Marxism altogether.

In later times he moved further and further away from Marxism. He first approached the Socialist Party in the 1980s . In 1996 he finally entered the Italian Parliament for the list of Berlusconi's Forza Italia , where he held his mandate until 2001.

Colletti had a daughter from each of his marriages.

Fonts

  • On the Stalin question. In: International Marxist Discussion. No. 7. Merve, Berlin 1970.
  • Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International. European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main Main 1971.
  • Marxism as Sociology. In: International Marxist Discussion. No. 31. Merve, Berlin 1973. (2 articles, 1959, 1969. Interview with Ottavio Cecchi, 1971).
  • Hegel and Marxism. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1976.
  • Marxism and Dialectics. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1977.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Perry Anderson : A Political and Philosophical Interview. In: New Left Review , No. 86, July / August 1974
personal data
SURNAME Colletti, Lucio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philosopher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 2001
Place of death Venturina ( Province of Livorno )