Massimo Cacciari Livres

Cacciari discusses Vienna at a crucial turning point in Western thinking, as the 19th century ended, treating this extraordinarily rich concentration of people and events as the hub upon which wheeled into the 20th century.

Exploring the intricate layers of Dante's Divine Comedy, this collection features nine insightful essays that delve into the poet's political theology. Written by a prominent contemporary Italian philosopher, the essays illuminate Dante's profound reflections on morality, justice, and the human experience, offering a fresh perspective on his timeless work. Each essay serves to deepen the reader's understanding of Dante's influence on philosophy and politics, making it a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts alike.

The author is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This title offers a collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date.

Assesses the current situation of Europe ten years after the adoption of the single currency. Examines the genealogy of the idea of Europe from the Greek confrontation with the Asia to the conflict between the Roman Empire and Christianity. Discusses the role of secularization in the shaping of modern Europe.

One of Italy's best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary political situation. During the dramatic course of the twentieth century, amid the clash of the titans which marked that era, humanity could still think in terms of partisan struggles in which large masses took sides against one another. The new millennium, by contrast, appears to have opened under the guise of generalized insecurity, which pertains not only to the historical and social situation, or to one's personal psychological predicament, but to our very being. The Earth's current faltering and the twilight of every convention that might govern it--where roles, images, and languages become confused by a lack of direction and distance--were already powerfully prophesied in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and later in the works of Kafka and Beckett. In Hamletics, Massimo Cacciari, one of Italy's foremost philosophers and leftist political figures, establishes a dialogue between these fateful authors, exploring the relationship between European nihilism and the aporias of action in the present.

L'uomo senza qualità di Robert Musil riflette l'uomo contemporaneo, per cui il mondo di ieri, con le sue illusioni di armonia, di compiutezza, con le sue pretese di esattezza da ricercare in ogni campo, è finito per sempre. Vie di uscita non ve ne sono, vie soltanto, che dovremo costruire mentre si va, si cerca

Venedigs streitbarer Bürgermeister Massimo Cacciari legt in diesem Essay eine Tour de force der europäischen Staatsphilosophie vor: von der Geburt der Demokratie in der griechischen Antike, von Augustinus, Machiavelli, Hegel und Nietzsche bis hin zu Martin Heidegger und Carl Schmitt. Eine Antwort darauf, daß der europäische Geist sich der ganzen Welt zu bemächtigen scheint, während seine Unfähigkeit, dieser Welt eine Gestalt zu geben, um so offenkundiger geworden ist.

Ausgehend von einer Grundfrage des philosophischen Denkens, der Zeit, kreisen diese Essays Massimo Cacciaris aus den verschiedenen Perspektiven heraus um ein und denselben Punkt: um die Formen eines möglichen Abbaus der Notwendigkeit und der Herrschaft der Zeit, der Zeit als Dauer, als Spanne von Momenten. Den verschiedenen Denkansätzen folgend (Ranke, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Musil, Blumenberg, Kosseleck, Rosenzweig u. a.), zeigt Cacciari, daß es nicht darum gehe, sich zwischen der zyklisch-kosmischen und der linear-progressiven Konzeption von Zeit zu entscheiden, die beide - wie im Essay über Nietzsche gezeigt wird -von der Notwendigkeit der Zeit als Dauer geprägt sind, sondern um die Idee des Augenblicks, die Zeit ohne Kronos, die eine Zeit der Entscheidung, eine Zeit erfüllter Verantwortlichkeit ist. Cacciari fand in seiner Forschung wesentliche Anregung in der neuen Physik, in der neuen Epistemologie und in den geschichtsphilosophischen Auseinandersetzungen von Blumenberg, Kosseleck u. a. Im Fest des Karnevals, das Cacciari in seiner heidnisch-christlichen Tradition untersucht, leuchtet jener Augenblick auf, der den Mensch darin bestärken soll, der ständigen Wiederholung seines Scheiterns angesichts der Zeit zu begegnen und zu widerstehen.