Domenico Losurdo

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Domenico Losurdo (Sannicandro di Bari, 1941) is an Italian philosopher, historian, political theorist and Marxist intellectual.

Life

Losurdo obtained his doctorate in 1963 from the University of Urbino.[1] He is Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Urbino.[2]

Thought

Losurdo criticizes the concept of totalitarianism, especially in the works of Hannah Arendt. He argues that totalitarianism is a polysemic concept with origins in Christian theology, and that applying it to the political sphere requires an operation of abstract schematism which makes use of isolated elements of historical reality to place fascist regimes and the USSR in the dock together, serving the anti-communism of Cold War-era intellectuals rather than reflecting intellectual research.

Losurdo asserts that the origins of fascism and national socialism are to be found in what he views as "colonialist" and "imperialist" policies of the West. He examines the intellectual and political positions of intellectuals on modernity. In his view, Kant and Hegel were the greatest thinkers of modernity, while Nietzsche was its greatest critic, followed by Marxist thinkers such as Max Horkheimer, Ernst Bloch, Marx and Gramsci, who were at the same time critics and defenders of modernity.

Works

  • Tra Hegel e Bismarck. La rivoluzione del 1848 e la crisi della cultura tedesca, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1983
  • Autocensura e compromesso nel pensiero politico di Kant, Napoli, Bibliopolis, 1984
  • La catastrofe della Germania e l'immagine di Hegel, Milano, Guerini, 1987
  • Hegel und das deutsche Erbe. Philosophie und nationale Frage zwischen Revolution und Reaktion, Köln, 1989
  • La comunità, la morte, l'Occidente. Heidegger e l' "ideologia della guerra", Torino, 1991. Traducido al castellano como La comunidad, la muerte, Occidente : Heidegger y la "ideología de la guerra" Buenos Aires : Losada, 2003
  • Heidegger and the Ideology of War, Amherst, Humanity Books, 2001
  • Hegel e la libertà dei moderni, Roma, 1992
  • Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2004
  • Democrazia o bonapartismo: trionfo e decadenza del suffragio universale, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1993;
  • La Seconda Repubblica. Liberismo, federalismo, postfascismo, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1994
  • Antonio Gramsci dal liberalismo al "comunismo critico", Roma, Gamberetti Editrice, 1997
  • Dai fratelli Spaventa a Gramsci. Per una storia politico-sociale della fortuna di Hegel in Italia, Napoli, La città del sole, 1997
  • Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico. Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critico, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2002
  • Controstoria del liberalismo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005. Traducido al castellamo como Contrahistoria del liberalismo Mataró (Barcelona)] : El Viejo Topo, D.L. 2007
  • Liberalism A Counter-History, London, Verso, 2011
  • Il linguaggio dell'Impero : lessico dell'ideologia americana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007
  • Stalin. Storia e critica di una leggenda nera, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2008
  • La non-violenza. Una storia fuori dal mito, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011

References

  1. ↑ "Losurdo Domenico" (in Italian). Università degli studi di Urbino « Carlo Bo ». Retrieved 22 January 2011. 
  2. ↑ "Faculties: Faculty of Education". University of Urbino. Retrieved 22 January 2011. 

External links

Nazisme racisme colonialisme - Domenico Losurdo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2I5RAEjNjU

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