Lucio Colletti[lower-alpha 1] (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 | Rome, Italy | 8 December 1924
Died | 3 November 2001 76) Campiglia Marittima, Italy | (aged
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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) |
Colletti 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.
- 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
- Italian pronunciation: [ˈluːtʃo kolˈletti].
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