Eugenio Colorni (22 April 1909 - 30 May 1944) was an Italian philosopher and anti-fascist activist.

Life

Born in

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, Colorni taught philosophy at the

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, and was active in the anti-fascist

Giustizia e Libertà Giustizia e Libertà (; en, Justice and Freedom) was an Italian anti-fascist resistance movement, active from 1929 to 1945.James D. Wilkinson (1981). ''The Intellectual Resistance Movement in Europe''. Harvard University Press. p. 224. The mov ...

movement. He married

Ursula Hirschmann Ursula Hirschmann (2 September 1913 – 8 January 1991) was a German anti-fascist activist and an advocate of European federalism. Life and career Hirschmann was born into a middle-class Jewish family to Carl Hirschmann and Hedwig Marcuse in ...

, and was an important influence on her brother

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, who dedicated his book ''

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty ''Exit, Voice, and Loyalty'' (1970) is a treatise written by Albert O. Hirschman. The work hinges on a conceptual ultimatum that confronts consumers in the face of deteriorating quality of goods: either '' exit'' or ''voice''. The book has been ...

'' to Colorni's memory. Colorni was one of the promoters of the

Ventotene Manifesto The Ventotene Manifesto ( it, Manifesto di Ventotene), officially entitled ''For a Free and United Europe. A Draft Manifesto'' (''Per un'Europa libera e unita. Progetto d'un manifesto''), is a political statement written by Altiero Spinelli while ...

and an early instigator of the European Federalist Movement. In the mid 1930s, he was closely associated with

Lelio Basso Lelio Basso (25 December 1903 – 16 December 1978) was an Italian democratic socialist politician, political scientist and journalist. Early life Lelio Basso was born in Varazze (in the province of Savona) into a Liberal bourgeois family. In 1 ...

and others. In October 1938 he and Dino Philipson were arrested for their anti-fascist political activity and their Jewish background. He escaped but was killed in

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by a Nazi ambush in 1944, shortly before the Allies arrived. He and Ursula Hirschmann had three daughters: Silvia, Renata and Eva. His youngest daughter Eva married Indian economist

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and they had a son, Kabir, and a daughter, Indrani.

Works

* ''L'estetica di Benedetto Croce: studio critico'', 1932 * (ed.)

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz . ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathema ...

, ''La Monadologia'', 1935 * ''Leibniz e il misticismo'', 1938 * 'Filosofia e scienza', ''Analysis'', 1947 * 'Apologo', ''Sigma'', 1947 * 'I'dialoghi di Commodo', ''Sigma'', 1949 * 'Critica filosofia e fisica teoria', ''Sigma'', 1948 * ''Scritt'', Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1975

References

Sources

* Elvira Gencarelli, ''Profilo politico di Eugenio Colorni'', in «Mondo Operaio», n. 7, luglio 1974, pp. 49–54 * Elvira Gencarelli, ''Eugenio Colorni'', article in ''Il Movimento Operaio Italiano''. Dizionario Biografico, Editori Riuniti, Roma, 1976, vol. II, pp. 74–81 * Leo Solari, ''Eugenio Colorni. Ieri e sempre'', Marsilio, Venezia, 1980 * Eugenio Garin, ''Colorni, Eugenio'', in «Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani», XXVII, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana, Roma, 1982 * Norberto Bobbio, ''Maestri e compagni'', Passigli Editori, Firenze, 1984 * Nunzio Dell'Erba, ''L'itinerario politico di Eugenio Colorni'', in Id., ''Il socialismo riformista tra politica e cultura'', Franco Angeli, Milano 1990, pp. 135–150 * Massimo Orlandi, ''Il socialismo federalista di Eugenio Colorni'', unpublished thesis, Università degli studi di Firenze, Anno Accademico 1991-1992 * Gaetano Arfé, ''Eugenio Colorni, l'antifascista, l'europeista'', in AA. VV., ''Matteotti, Buozzi, Colorni. Perché vissero, perché vivono'', Franco Angeli, Milano, 1996, pp. 58–77 * Sandro Gerbi, ''Tempi di malafede. Una storia italiana tra fascismo e dopoguerra. Guido Piovene ed Eugenio Colorni'', Einaudi, Torino 1999 e Hoepli, Milano, 2012. * Geri Cerchiai, ''L'itinerario filosofico di Eugenio Colorni'', in «Rivista di Storia della Filosofia», n. 3, 2002 * Stefano Miccolis, ''Eugenio Colorni ventenne e Croce'', in «Belfagor», 4, LXV, 31 luglio 2010, pp. 415–434 * Geri Cerchiai, ''Alcune riflessioni su Eugenio Colorni'', in «Rivista di Storia della Filosofia», LXVII 2012, pp. 351–360. * Michele Strazza, ''Melfi terra di confino. Il confino a Melfi durante il fascismo'', Melfi, Tarsia, 2002. * Maurizio Degl'Innocenti (a cura di), ''Eugenio Colorni dall'antifascismo all'europeismo socialista e federalista'', Lacaita, 2010, . 1909 births 1944 deaths Writers from Milan Italian Jews who died in the Holocaust Members of Giustizia e Libertà 20th-century Italian philosophers University of Trieste faculty 20th-century Italian writers Italian prisoners and detainees {{Italy-philosopher-stub