Massimo Cacciari
Born in Venice in 1944, Cacciari He studied at the University of Padua, graduating in Aesthetics with a thesis on Kant. He has been a professor of Aesthetics at the Institute of Architecture of the University of Venice and editor of journals such as Angelus Novus, Contropiano, Lavoratorio politico and ParadossoResponsible for the Italian edition of authors such as Hartmann, Hofmannsthal, Simmel, and Lukács, he has also written texts for Luigi Nono's opera Prometheus. In the 1970s, he began a fruitful political career in his country, serving as a national deputy for the Communist Party for two terms (1976-1983) and as mayor of his hometown from the end of 1993 for the Democratic Left Party (PDS).
The following titles can give an idea of his extensive and rich bibliography: Economical piano and class composition (1975) Negative thinking and rationalization (1977) Krisis. Saggio sulla crisis of the negative pensiero gives Nietzsche to Wittgenstein (1976; Spanish translation in 1982: Crisis. Essay on Negative Thinking from Nietzsche to Wittgenstein), Cruciality of time (1980) Dallo Steinhof (1980; Spanish translation by Francisco Jarauta: Posthumous Men, 1989), Icone della Legge (1985) The Necessary Angel (1986; Spanish translation: The necessary angel, 1989), Dell'Inizio (1990) Architecture and Nihilism (1993) From Nietzsche. Time, art, politics (1994) Quid Tum (1994), etc