Valentino Bellucci (1975 – 16 December 2021) was an Italian philosopher, sociologist, poet, painter, and essayist.

Life and career

Bellucci was born in

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, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. He taught "History and critical analysis of the video-theater" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata. He was teacher of history and

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at the Italian high schools and cooperated with seminars at the University of Urbino. After studying with the Orientalist Icilio Vecchiotti, he dedicated himself to the

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culture, especially to the Vaishnava

Bhakti ''Bhakti'' ( sa, भक्ति) literally means "attachment, participation, fondness for, homage, faith, love, devotion, worship, purity".See Monier-Williams, ''Sanskrit Dictionary'', 1899. It was originally used in Hinduism, referring to d ...

tradition, exploring the epistemological, historical and psychological aspects. He devoted himself to an intensive information activity, concerning the

and sociology, with his publications and conferences. As painter, he followed in particular the figurative school of Pietro Annigoni. Some of his works are displayed in some churches in the

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region. In 2003 he met

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who rewarded him for a poetic composition. His poems were recited by the actor Walter Maestosi. He died from a heart attack on 16 December 2021, at the age of 46.

Thought

Bellucci developed the existential themes of mysticism, both in the Western philosophical and religious tradition and in the Vaishnava Bhakti one; in the essay “Lo yoga devozionale indiano” (The Indian devotional yoga) he explains the social importance of the spirituality as existential journey rather than as institutionalized dogma. From a sociological point of view his analysis focused on the origins of the ancient Vedic culture; in his essay about Varna he shows how the ills of modern society derive from the break with the great traditional civilizations; therefore the historical and epistemological paradigms have to be rethought in the light of the ancient wisdom. Furthermore, he investigated the origins of Christianity, inspired by the work of

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, identifying lost lifestyles and teachings. Bellucci proposed a critical recovery of ancient civilizations whose knowledges have a considerable social and individual value. His historical and sociological analyses led him to consider modernity as a mystification, a kind of collective self-deception that the society cultivates since the

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and

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; this mystification derives from an a priori rejection of the sacred, the divine, in order to follow the idols of technic and advanced capitalism. In this sense his investigation continued following in the footsteps of scholars as Jean Servier and

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.Adriano Ercolani, ''La ricerca eretica di Valentino Bellucci''
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Works

* ''Il pensiero estremo. Saggi sui filosofi contemporanei'', Tabula Fati, 2004. * ''Dialogo su George Bataille'', Nuova Corrente, Tilgher, Genova 2004, n.133, pp. 55–65. * ''Walter Benjamin. La duplice genealogia del simbolo e della verità'', Ghibli, 2004. * ''Tutt'altro che animale. Riflessioni da Merleau-Ponty a Derrida, sui rapporti tra umanità e animalità'', Studi urbinati, Urbino 2006 * ''Lo yoga devozionale indiano. Il vaishnavismo'', Xenia, 2011. * ''Il benessere attraverso l'Ayurveda'', Editoriale Programma, 2013. * ''Cristo era vegetariano?'', Editoriale Programma, 2013. * ''Godot è arrivato. Conferenze, interventi e note critiche'', Petite Plaisance, 2014. * ''Il Sutra del naufrago. Aforismi e note di un osservatore di fronte al crollo del mondo moderno'', Petite Plaisance, 2014. * ''Le strutture sociali del varnāshrama-dharma. Saggio sull'origine delle caste indiane e sui paradigmi delle società tradizionali'', Solfanelli 2014. * ''L'estasi e le pietre'', Lepisma, 2015. * ''L'invenzione dell'inferno'', Harmakis, 2015. * ''La Chiesa di Darwin'', Harmakis, 2015. * ''The Church of Darwin : Dogmas of evolution and scientists that criticize'' it, Harmakis, 2016 * ''Miti e misteri dell'Emilia Romagna'', coautrice Gabriella Chmet, Editoriale Programma, 2016 * ''Che cos'è il Karma'', Harmakis, 2016 * ''Da Pitagora a Guerre stellari. Il sapere esoterico dei veri illuminati'', Petite Plaisance, 2016 * ''Hulk si innamora'', Giovane Holden, 2019

References

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