Remo Bodei (3 August 1938 – 7 November 2019) was an Italian philosopher. He was a professor of the history of philosophy at the

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, and also had taught at the

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and

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. Bodei was born in Cagliari. His initial interests were in classical German philosophy, and the

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period (1770–1830). He subsequently penned over 200 papers on

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thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and contemporary political thought. He died in Pisa, aged 81. He has been member of the Contemporary Centre of Arts founded by

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. He won the Cilento Poetry Prize for criticism in 2020 (posthumous).

Works

His books include the following volumes: *''Sistema ed epoca in Hegel'' (Bologna, Il Mulino, 1975. Reprinted 2014 with the title ''La civetta e la talpa. Sistema ed epoca in Hegel'') *''Hegel e Weber. Egemonia e legittimazione'' (Bari, De Donato, 1977) (with Franco Cassano) *''Multiversum. Tempo e storia in Ernst Bloch'' (Napoli, Bibliopolis, 1979), 1983 (new edition) *''Scomposizioni. Forme dell'individuo moderno'' (Turin,

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, 1987. Reprinted by Il Mulino, Bologna, 2016) *''Hölderlin: la filosofia y lo tragico'' (Madrid, Visor, 1990) *''Ordo amoris. Conflitti terreni e felicità celeste'' (Bologna, Il Mulino, 1991) *''Geometria delle passioni. Paura, speranza e felicità: filosofia e uso politico'' (Milano, Feltrinelli, 1991) *''Le forme del bello'' (Bologna, Il Mulino, 1995) *''Le prix de la liberté'' (Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 1995) *''Se la storia ha un senso'' (Bergamo, Moretti & Vitali, 1997) *''La filosofia nel Novecento'' (Roma, Donzelli, 1997)

References

External links

Remo Bodei nell'Enciclopdia Treccani

Interview with Remo Bodei

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, 2008.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bodei, Remo 1938 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Italian philosophers 21st-century Italian philosophers Historians of philosophy University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of Pisa faculty Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa alumni People from Cagliari