Philosophy Department Faculty

Giovanni Pietro Basile S.J.

Associate Professor

Profile

Giovanni Pietro Basile is currently associate professor in the Philosophy Department of Boston College. After completing studies in physics, theology, and philosophy, he earned his PhD in philosophy at the LMU Munich, where he also received the German Habilitation. He is a member of the Reviewers Panel of the journals Gregorianum and Kant-Studien. Among his main publications are two books—Transcendance et finitude. La synthèse transcendantale dans la Critique de laraison pure de Kant, Paris: L’Harmattan 2005 and Kants Opus postumum und seine Rezeption, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2013—as well as several articles on Kant, Kar lJaspers, and Paul Ricoeur.

Books

As Author

Kants Opus postumum und seine Rezeption [Kant’s Opus postumum and its Reception]. Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte 175. De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston 2013. 536 p.

Transcendance et finitude. La synthèse transcendantale dans la Critique de la raison pure de Kant [Transcendence and Finitude. The Transcendental Synthesis in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason]. Preface by François Marty. L’Harmattan: Paris 2005. 210 p.

As Editor

Perspectives on Kant’s Opus postumum. Ed. by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy. Routledge: New York 2022.

System and Freedom in Kant and Fichte. Festschrift in honor of Günter Zöller. Ed. by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy. Routledge: New York 2022.

Das Selbst und die Welt. Beiträge zu Kant und der nachkantischen Philosophie [The Self and the World. Contributions to Kant and Post-kantian Philosophy] Ed. by Manja Kisner, Giovanni Pietro Basile, Ansgar Lyssy and Michael B. Weiß.  Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg 2019.

Recent Publications

“François Marty’s interpretation of Kant’s Opus postumum”. In Perspectives on Kant’s Opus postumum. Ed. by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy. Routledge: New York 2022, 199–215.

“Kant und die Weltmaschinenmetapher” [Kant and the World Machine Metaphor]. In The Court of Reason. Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress. Ed. by Beatrix Himmelmann and Camilla Serck-Hanssen with the Assistance of Maren Kildahl Fjeld. 3 vol. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston 2022, 853–862.

“Existenzphilosophie als Ereignis. Karl Jaspers und seine philosophia perennis” [Philosophy of Existence as Event. Karl Jaspers and his philosophia perennis]. In: Offener Horizont: Jahrbuch der Karl Jaspers-Gesellschaft 6 (2019/20) 84-100.

“Kant et la machine comme métaphore du monde, de l’homme et de l’État” [Kant and the Machine as Metaphor of the World, of the Human Being and of the State]. In: In: Kant et l’humain. Géographie, psychologie, anthropologie [Kant and the Human. Geography, Psychology, Anthropology]. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of the Society of French Speaking Kantian Studies (SEKLF). Universitade Portucalense, Porto: September 13th-15th, 2017. Ed. by Paulo Jesus, Elisabeth Lefort, Mai Lequan and Diogo Sardinha. Vrin: Paris 2020, 43–51.

“Die Weltmaschinenmetapher von Descartes bis Kant” [The Metaphor of the World as a Machine from Descartes to Kant]. In: Das Selbst und die Welt. Beiträge zu Kant und der nachkantischen Philosophie. Ed. by Manja Kisner, Giovanni Pietro Basile, Ansgar Lyssy and Michael B. Weiß. Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg 2019, 13–41.

“Eine Philosophie à deux foyers. Die bipolare Struktur von Karl Jaspers’ Existenzphilosophie nach Paul Ricœur” [A Philosophy à deux foyers. The Bipolar Structure of Karl Jaspers’ Existential Philosophy according to Paul Ricœur]. In: Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Karl-Jaspers-Gesellschaft 31/32 (2018/19) 9–49.

“Die Entstehung der modernen Weltmaschinenmetapher” [The Origin of the modern Metaphor of the World as a Machine]. In: Gregorianum 100/2 (2019) 343–363.

“The Doctrine of Double Affection in the Earlier Reception of Kant’s Opus postumum”. In: Natur und Freiheit. Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. 5 vol. Ed. by Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing and David Wagner. De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston 2018, vol. 5, 3639–3647.