Lucio Colletti[a] (8 December 1924 – 3 November 2001) was an Italian Western Marxist philosopher. Colletti started to be known outside Italy because of a long interview with him that Marxist historian Perry Anderson published in the New Left Review in 1974.[1]
Lucio Colletti | |
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 Lucio Colletti in 1996 | |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 9 May 1996 – 3 November 2001 | |
| Constituency | Lombardy 1 (1996-2001) |
| Constituency | Veneto 2 (2001) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 December 1924 Rome, Italy |
| Died | 3 November 2001 (aged 76) Campiglia Marittima, Italy |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Academic advisors | Carlo Antoni |
| Influences | Galvano Della Volpe |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philosophy |
| Sub-discipline | Political philosophy |
| School or tradition | Western Marxism (early) |
Biography
editColletti studied philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he earned a laurea with a thesis entitled La logica di Benedetto Croce (The Logic of Benedetto Croce), which was supervised by Carlo Antoni.[2] Inspired by the Western Marxist philosopher Galvano Della Volpe, he then gravitated towards communism.[3] Colletti was well known as a critic of Hegelian idealism and later became a noted critic of Marxism. He wrote the foreword for the Italian edition of Alfred Schmidt's The Concept of Nature in Marx.[4]
Colletti changed his political beliefs very often and abandoned many of his early Marxist ideals. Having been a member of the anti-fascist Action Party (Partito d'Azione; PdA) in his youth, he joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1949 and emerged as an important cultural party figure.[5] In 1964, Coletti left the PCI because the party's break with its semi-Stalinist past was leading towards what he called, in his view, a "patently rightward direction."[6] In the 1970s he was among the supporters of Socialist leader Bettino Craxi. From 1996 until his death he was elected on the list of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing political party, as a member of the Chamber of Deputies (lower house) in the Italian parliament.
Selected publications
edit- The Manifesto of 101
- "The Theory of the Crash". Telos, 13 (Fall 1972). New York: Telos Press.
- 1972 (1974) From Rousseau to Lenin
- 1973 (1979) Marxism and Hegel
Notes
edit- ^ Italian pronunciation: [ˈluːtʃo kolˈletti].
References
edit- ^ Colletti, Lucio (July–August 1974). "A political and philosophical interview". New Left Review. I (86). New Left Review.
- ^ Martin Jay, Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas, University of California Press, 1984, p. 444. ISBN 9780520057425.
- ^ Stella Gian Antonio, Colletti. Il pifferaio rosso della Volpe, Corriere della Sera, 1 July 2000, p. 33.
- ^ Alfred Schmidt: Il concetto di natura in Marx. Translated by Giorgio Baratta and Giuseppe Bedeschi. Pref. Lucio Colletti. 2nd ed. Bari: Laterza, 1973.
- ^ Sarti, Roland. Italy: a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present. New York : Facts On File, 2004: 208.
- ^ Jay, M. Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1984: 429.
External links
edit- Lucio Colletti, "Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International" from From Rousseau to Lenin
- English-language obituary from The Guardian (UK)
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