Philosophy Department Faculty

Giovanni Pietro Basile SJ

2021 Gasson Chair

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Giovanni Pietro Basile SJ

Ph.D.

Education

  • B.A., Licentiate Philosophy, Licentiate Theology: Centre Sèvres (Paris)
  • B.A., Istituto Filosofico Aloisianum of Padua
  • M.A., Università della Calabria (Cosenza)
  • Ph.D., Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich

Courses

2021 Fall: Kant on the Arguments for God's Existence

2021 Spring: Existentialism and Philosophy of Existence: Sartre, Heidegger, Arendt, and Jaspers

Research Interests

History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy: Kant, Ricœur, Jaspers

Systematic Philosophy: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Nature, Political Philosophy

Office Hours

By Appointment

Profile

Giovanni Pietro Basile, SJ studied physics, theology, and philosophy. He did his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, with a dissertation on Kant’s Opus postumum. He has taught at the Munich School of Philosophy and at the LMU Munich and is also doing his Habilitation at the LMU Munich with a project on the modern metaphoric of the state as a machine and its critic by Kant. He has been appointed to the Gasson Chair at Boston College for the academic year 2020-2021.

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

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

“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.

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