Girgenti Giuseppe

Biography

Biography and curriculum Giuseppe Girgenti (Palermo, 1967) graduated from the Catholic University of Milan, where he graduated in philosophy in 1989 under the direction of Giovanni Reale, with a thesis titled Platonism and Christianity in San Giustino Marttire. His studies have been directed from the beginning to the history of pagan and Christian Platonism, in a boundary between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, between philosophy and theology. In 1990 he won a PhD in philosophy, which led him to study in Germany at the Ludwig-Maximillians Universität in Munich, where he was a pupil of Werner Beierwaltes (of whom he translated the studies into Agostino in Italian) ; then moved to France, at the Collège de France in Paris, where he was a pupil of Pierre Hadot (of whom he translated the study into Porfirio and Mario Vittorino in Italian). In 1994 he received a Ph.D. degree with a dissertation titled Porphyry between henology and ontology. In the years 1994-1996, with a post-doctoral degree, he worked at the Metaphysical Research Center of the Catholic University of Milan as secretary of the series "Metaphysical Themes and Problems of Ancient Thought" and "Platonism and Patristic Philosophy "Of the publisher Life and Thought, and" Texts in Front "by Rusconi. In the years 1997-2000 he was a professor at the Philosophy of Philosophy at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. In this three-year period he has expanded his interest in realistic phenomenology, translating in Italian works by Jan Patocka, Karol Wojtyla, Adolf Reinach and Josef Seifert. In parallel, he tried to combine the theoretic approach of phenomenologists with Hans-Georg Gadamer's historical-hermeneutic approach, who personally attended the last part of his life (from 1996 to 2002). He has attended numerous national and international conferences and has also held courses in Sicily, Monreale (Palermo) at the Basile Classical Basilica, and in Syracuse at the University Institute of University Studies. Syracuse has organized many philosophical events, including Hans-Georg Gadamer, Gianni Vattimo, Giovanni Reale, Imre Toth, Massimo Cacciari and Hans Küng. He is secretary of the philosophy series "The Western Thought" and "Texts in Front" by Bompiani, Milan, as well as a member of the Scientific Committee of the "Studi Bompiani" series. Philosophy "of the same publisher. He has been called to teach at the Faculty of Philosophy of the San Raffaele Health and Welfare University of Milan since its founding in 2002.

Research Interest

Philosophy