Ugo Perone

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Ugo Perone, 2014

Ugo Perone (born April 16, 1945 in Turin ) is an Italian philosopher .

Career

Ugo Perone was a pupil of Luigi Pareyson and completed his philosophy studies in Turin in 1967 with a thesis on "La filosofia della libertà in Charles Secrétan" (The philosophy of freedom in Charles Secrétan). For his work he was awarded the Luisa Guzzo Prize for the best philosophical dissertation of the academic year.

This was followed by a four-year research fellowship at the University of Turin , which was followed by an assistant position. In 1982, Ugo Perone was appointed professor of the philosophy of religion at the University of Turin. In the following years he was professor of theoretical philosophy and moral philosophy at the University of Turin, the University of Tor Vergata in Rome and the Università del Piemonte Orientale , where he was also director of the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici from 2005 to 2011 and from 2005 to 2008 Was the President's Commissioner for International Affairs.

Ugo Perone has held the Guardini Professorship since 2012 , which has been renamed the newly founded Central Institute for Catholic Theology at the Humboldt University in Berlin since 2019 . The Guardini Professorship for Philosophy of Religion and Catholic Worldview , which was previously part of the Theological Faculty , will be called Guardini Professorship for Philosophy of Religion and Theological History of Ideas from October 2019 .

In addition to his academic career, Ugo Perone was City Councilor for Culture of the City of Turin from 1993 to 2001 (assessore alla cultura) and from 2001 to 2003 he took over the management of the Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin (chiara fama appointment). And finally, from 2009 to 2013, he was the commissioner for culture and tourism (assessore alla Cultura e al turismo) of the Province of Turin .

Ugo Perone was a Senior Fellow at the Collegium Budapest . Since 2006 he has been president of the Società Italiana per gli Studi di Filosofia e Teologia and member of the management committee of the journal Filosofia e Teologia . He is also a member of the scientific committee of the magazines Giornale di metafisica and Spazio Filosofico and of the Centro Studi Filosofico-religiosi Luigi Pareyson . He is the founder and director of the Scuola di Alta Formazione Filosofica (SdAFF). He is a member of various national and international bodies in the field of philosophy, theology and education as well as co-editor of several professional journals.

Think

The most recent works are devoted to deepening the possible political dimension of a hermeneutic philosophy (politics is the invention of a new order that takes into account "for me" and "for all" at the same time); the rediscovery of a creative morality which is able to lead ethics beyond itself to a more comprehensive and simultaneously absorbing normativity; the themes of the philosophy of religion with a renewed discussion of the importance of secularization; of the richness and complexity of truth, which cannot be reduced to a mere correspondence, but also includes responsibility for the real.

Tension between the finite and the infinite

A metaphor accompanied Perone's entire path of thought: it is Jacob's battle with the angel from the Book of Moses. At night in the desert, a stranger suddenly interrupts Jacob's loneliness and fights with him in a fight that will know neither winners nor losers. It is only at sunrise that Jacob realizes that he has been wounded by the angel with whom he fought. But the wound also means the blessing and a new name: Jacob, who wrestled with God and was not killed, will from now on be called Israel.

According to Perone, this is the story of the extreme tension between the finite and the infinite, between the last and the penultimate, and between the individual meanings and the general sense.

Tasks and challenges of philosophy

Philosophy has a moral obligation to be true to finitude, so that it never denies the historical conditioning of thought, but also the obligation never to forego its vocation to transcend it through attention, work and effort. If modernity is recognized as a condition, then thinking can no longer simply fix itself in being or in meaning and pretend that there has been no turning point between the finite and the infinite. Nonetheless, a flattening to simple historical meanings (forgetting the calling of being) would be just as inappropriate.

Thinking on the threshold: obsessed with the whole, grounded by the subject

The necessary protection of finitude - a protection of the finite also against being, which has to be challenged to a certain extent (because one should be strong against the strong) - does not necessarily mean the elimination of one of the two fighters. On the threshold between the finite and the infinite, between history and ontology, a mediation takes place that does not require overcoming the distance, but rather maintains the latter. In order to preserve the double transgression of the finite into the infinite and the infinite into the finite, one must not erase the distance between the two - through a reinterpretation in identity or even with a weakening to the point of indifference. For example, it is true that memory only preserves fragments, but does not leave them to a nihilistic drift; because in the fragment - which remains in the memory - not just a simple moment should be remembered, but the essential (of a life, a story ...).

Philosophy remains obsessed with the whole, but this whole has “not the extension of a totality, but the intensity of the fragment in which the whole is concerned”. This also explains the reason why Ugo Perone's early books have double titles: Modernità e memoria ( modernity and memory ), Storia e ontologia ( history and ontology ): it is about always saying two things at the same time, in a dialectic of et-et, in hesitation and in anticipation. A single theme emerges from the later titles ( The Passion of the Finite ; Defiance / the Subject ; The Possible Present ; The Truth of Feeling ), but this means that the finite, the subject, the present and feeling analyzed as a threshold as places that cannot be thought, let alone experienced, without the memory of the other. As in the case of Jacob, these are places that bear the other's wounding as a blessing.

Publications (Italian)

  • Teologia ed esperienza religiosa in Feuerbach , Mursia, Milan 1972; nuova ed. rivista 2016.
  • Storia e ontologia. Saggi sulla teologia di Bonhoeffer. Studies, Roma 1976.
  • Schiller: la totalità interrotta. Mursia, Milano 1982.
  • Modernity e memoria. Sei, Torino 1987.
  • In lotta con l'angelo. La filosofia degli ultimi due secoli di fronte al Cristianesimo. SEI, Torino 1989 (with G. Ferretti, A. Pastore Perone, C. Ciancio, Maurizio Pagano).
  • Invito al pensiero di Feuerbach. Mursia, Milano 1992.
  • Le passioni del finito. EDB, Bologna 1994.
  • Cartesio o Pascal? A dialogo sulla modernità. Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 1995 (with C. Ciancio).
  • Nonostante il soggetto. Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 1995 (German translation: Despite / the subject. Peeters Verlag, Leuven 1998).
  • Il presente possibile. Guida, Napoli 2005 (English by Silvia Benso and Brian Schröder: The Possible Present. SUNY Press, Albany, NY 2011).
  • La verità del sentimento. Napoli, Guida, 2008.
  • Ripensare il sentimento. Cittadella Editrice, Assisi 2014.
  • S. Givone, I sentieri della filosofia, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 2015
  • Filosofia e spazio pubblico, a cura di U. Perone, Il Mulino 2012
  • L'essenza della religione , gdt, 376, Queriniana, Brescia 2015, pp. 136.
  • Il racconto della filosofia. Breve storia della filosofia, Queriniana, Brescia 2016

more publishments

  • Finiteness. From borders and passions, trans. H. Benning, Eos Verlag, Abtei St. Ottilien, 2015, 1–111.
  • Christianity after secularization. In: L. Simon and J.-J. Hahn (Ed.): Europe without God? In search of our identity. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2007, pp. 71–86.
  • Delay and anticipation. In: B. Casper and W. Sparn (eds.): Everyday life and transcendence. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1992, pp. 163-178
  • The ambiguity of everyday life. In: Everyday Life and Transcendence. Pp. 241-263.
  • I cloud that. In: E. Agazzi, E. Koczisky (Ed.): The fragile body. Between fragmentation and wholeness. V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2005, pp. 109–117.
  • Emotionality as an anthropological component , in the lifeworld and science , Ed. C. Fr. Gehtmann, Felix Meiner, Essen 2008
  • Image as a process. New perspectives on a phenomenology of vision , edited by A. Fabris, A. Lossi, U. Perone, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011.
  • The lifted feeling , in New Journal for Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion, De Gruyter, 2012, Volume 54, Issue 3, pp. 229–239.
  • In praise of philosophy , in “Trigon”, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2014. pp. 13–24.
  • The moral value of the exception , in “Trigon”, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2014, pp. 25–34.
  • Italian and German philosophy. From an asymmetry to a European perspective, in Philosophia transalpina, German-Italian interactions in the philosophy of modernity ,  Ed. Th. Buchheim u. J. Nöller, Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2015, pp. 221–232.
  • Presence and Presence as Political Ideas. Elements for a new orientation under the conditions of the time , in Italian Political Philosophy , Roland Benedikter (Hr.), Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2016, pp. 117–146.
  • "L'actualité de Romano Guardini" , "Transversalités" 2016/2 (n ° 137), p. 71-81.
  • Le principe mémoire , in Jean Greisch, les trois âges de la raison. Métaphysique, phenoménologie, herméneutique , sous la direction de S. Bancalari, J. de Gramont, J. Leclerque, Hermann éditeurs, Paris 2016, pp. 61–75.
  • The irritation of religion, On the tension between philosophy and theology , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, (Ed. C. Danani, U. Perone, S. Richter), Göttingen 2017, pp. 1–178
  • Conversations with Italian Philosophers , a cura di S. Benso, Albany 2017, Beeing, Memory and Presence , pp. 223–232.
  • Power of the genitive. On a possible interpretation of public space , in U. Dirks, a. Wagner (Ed.) Abel in Dialogue, Perspective of the Philosophy of Signs and Interpretation , Bad 2, De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, 2018, pp. 811–821.
  • Can hermeneutics be educational ? in The Enlightenment Project. Philosophical-theological debates from the early modern period to the present . Walter Sparn on his 75th birthday, edited by Joar Haga, Sascha Salatowsky, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann and Wolfgang Schobert, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2018, pp. 397–409.

literature

  • S. Benso: Struggling with the Angel: Finitude, Time, and Metaphysical Sentiment. In: U. Perone: The Possible Present. SUNY Press, Albany, NY 2011, pp. Ix-xviii.
  • E. Guglielminetti (Ed.): Interruzioni. Note sulla filosofia di Ugo Perone. il melangolo, Genova 2006.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Perone refers directly to it in Modernità e memoria , pp. IX-XI.
  2. ↑ The subject of the tension between heaven and earth has been central to Perone since his study on Bonhoeffer: «How can one forget that Bonhoeffer was perhaps the only one in theology who dared not to see temptation in the tension between heaven and earth, but one Enrichment of both »( Storia e Ontologia , p. 81)
  3. ↑ Modernità e Memoria , p. 129.
  4. ↑ Modernità e Memoria , p. 5 u. P. 100.
  5. ↑ Storia e ontologia , p. 59 ff .; Modernità e memoria , p. 47. See also Teologia ed esperienza religiosa in Feuerbach .
  6. ↑ Il presente possibile , pp. 31-53.
  7. ↑ Modernità e Memoria , p. 133.
  8. ↑ La verità del sentimento , p. 174.
  9. ^ Nonostante il soggetto , pp. 115–116.
personal data
SURNAME Perone, Ugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin