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Gaetano Rametta

Professore ordinario

GAETANO RAMETTA (Pistoia, 1960) is Full Professor of History of philosophy at the University of Padua. His main lines of research involve transcendental philosophy (Fichte), German idealism (Hegel), the philosophy of the crisis between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Nietzsche, Lask), British neo-Hegelianism (Bradley), contemporary French philosophy (Deleuze , Foucault, Althusser).

He also deals with political philosophy and the history of concepts. 

MAIL: gaetano.rametta@unipd.it

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Classical German philosophy, with particular reference to the work of Fichte and Hegel.

  • Neo-Kantianism and the reception of idealism between the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular reference to the thought of E. Lask and F. H. Bradley.

  • Political philosophy and history of concepts.

  • Contemporary philosophy, with particular reference to the work of Nietzsche and to the French thought of the twentieth century.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES AND COLLABORATIONS

Coordinator of the seminar "Idealism and transcendental philosophy in nineteenth and twentieth century thought" within the Doctoral School in Philosophy of the University of Padua.

Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at the Galileian School of Higher Studies in Padua in the academic years 2013-2014 and 2014-2015.

Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Padua starting from the a.y. to. 2002-2013, in the Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy, Master's Degree in Philosophical Sciences, Bachelor's Degree in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

Lecturer representative of the University for the Partnership between the University of Padua and McGill University of Montreal (Canada).

 

Member of the Internationale Johann-Gottlieb-Fichte-Gesellschaft.

Member of the Interuniversity Research Center on European Political and Legal Lexicon (CIRLPGE), based at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University Institute in Naples.

Member of the research group Historia Conceptual y Critica de la Modernidad / Conceptual History and criticism of the Modernity (University of Valencia).

Member of the Scientific Committee of the VII. Congress of the Internationale J.-G.-Fichte-Gesellschaft:

Fichte/Schelling: der Idealismus in der Diskussion" (Brussels, 6-9 October 2009).

Member of the Scientific Committee of the VIII. Congress of the Internationale J.-G.-Fichte-Gesellschaft: "Fichte und seine Zeit" (Bologna, 19-22 September 2012).

Member of the Scientific Council of the Fichte Online Series (EuroPhilosophie Editions).

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fichtiana Series, Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies Press, Naples Italy.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the German Idealism series, Diogene Edizioni, Pomigliano d'Arco (NA) Italy.

Member of the Management Committee of the journal "Filosofia politica", ed. the Mill.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Philosophy and Politics Series, Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher, Monza, Italy.

Member of the scientific committee of the series For the history of political philosophy, Franco Angeli, Milan, Italy.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING STAYS ABROAD

Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Paraiba (Brazil) in the period February-March 1999.

Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Blaise Pascale University of Clermont-Ferrand in the winter semester 2008-2009.

Lecturer at the master's degree "Pensamiento filosófico contemporáneo" at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Valencia, with a seminar entitled: "Biopolitical paradigm and contemporary philosophy: Foucault, Deleuze, Agamben", lasting two weeks, from 23 March to 4 April 2009.

PUBLICATIONS 2011-2022

1. Is there a place for philosophy in Foucault's philosophy?, in: AA.VV., The passion of thinking, Mimesis, Milan 2011, pp. 339-351.

2. "Darstellung" in Hegel and in Althusser, in: G. Rametta (ed.), L'ombra di Hegel. Althusser, Deleuze, Lacan and Badiou in comparison with dialectics, Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher, Monza 2012, pp. 13-56.

3. "Content is always young." The thesis on Hegel by the young Althusser, in: G. Rametta (edited by, Metamorphosis of the transcendental. From Maimon to contemporary philosophy, Cleup, Padua 2012, pp. 83-114.

4. Hay Sito para la Filosofìa en la Filosofìa de Foucault?, in: JA Bermùdez, ed., Michael Foucault, un pensador poliédrico, PUV - Universitat de València, València 2012, pp. 49-62.

5. Beyond the theological-political: politics and jurisprudence in G. Deleuze, in: Concordia discors. Written in honor of Giuseppe Duso, edited by the Research Group on Political Concepts, Padova University Press, Padova 2012, pp. 151-177.
 

6. Fichte, Carocci, Rome 2012, pp. 315; rest. 2017.

7. Autochthony and parrhesia. Foucault reader of the 'Ion', in Cesaroni -Chignola (edited by), The strength of truth. A seminar on Foucault's courses at the Collège de France (1981-1984), short shadows, Verona 2013, pp. 102-131.

8. Fichte and the idea of transcendental philosophy as a doctrine of science, in “Tropos”, VI (2013)/2, special issue on “Transcendentality and translation”, pp. 45-65.

 

9. European thinker Gadda: reflexiones comparativas sobre Milanese meditation, in “Zibaldone. Estudios italianos”, 2013/2, pp. 5-10.

 

10. At the height of the spirit. Provisional considerations on Nietzsche's Zarathustra, in AA.VV., Mute mountains, silent disciples. Paths of mountain philosophy, Il Poligrafo, Padova 2013, pp. 65-77.

 

11. Teoría del discurso y archeologìa: Una lectura de Foucault en clave histórico-conceptual, in Tradición e innovación en la historia intellectual. Métodos historiográficos, edited by F. Oncina Coves, Biblioteca Nueva, Madrid 2013, pp. 141-149.

 

12. Is there a place for philosophy in Foucault's philosophy?, in G. Gamba, G. Molinari, M. Settura (edited by), Thinking the present, reopening the future. Critical paths through Foucault, Benjamin, Adorno, Bloch, Mimesis, Milano 2014, pp. 47-59.

 

13. «Cómo se llega a ser lo que se es». Autodeterminación en el pensamiento de Nietzsche, in F. Oncina, N. Miravet, H. Vizcaíno (edited by), Conceptos nómadas. Self-determination, PUV, Valencia 2014, pp. 97-108.

 

14. Naturaleza y espíritu en la filosofía clasica alemana, in “Quaderns dephilosophy”, vol. 1, no. 1 (2014), p. 55-64.

 

15. Fichte: transcendental logic as a logic of meaning, in “Rivista di storia della philosophy”, 2014, n. 4, pp. 719-743.

 

16. Non-being and negation in Hegel's Logic, in “Divus Thomas”, 2015, n. 2, pp. 43-73; rest. in E. Magno – M. Ghilardi (edited by), Philosophy and elsewhere. Festschrift for Giangiorgio Pasqualotto, Mimesis, Milan 2016, pp. 137-161.

 

17. “Estratificaciones temporalis”. Un intent de comparación entre Althusser y Koselleck, in “Historia y Grafìa”, Historia conceptual y crisis de la modernidad, a. 22, no. 44, January-June 2015, pp. 115-132.

 

18. Signe, langage et communication dans les Études fichtéennes de Novalis, in A. Schnell, A. Dumont (eds.), Einbildungskraft und Reflexion. Philosophische Untersuchungen zu Novalis / Imagination et réflexion. Recherches philosophiques sur Novalis, LIT Verlag, Berlin 2015, pp. 159-179.

 

19. Language, in L. Illetterati – P. Giuspoli (edited by), Classical German philosophy: key words, Carocci, Rome 2016, pp. 269-292.

 

20. Henry, Fichte et le problème de la manifestation, in Vivre la raison. Michel Henry entre histoire des idées, philosophie transcendantale et nouvelles perspectives phénoménologiques, Vrin, Paris 2016, pp. 173-188.

 

21. Alessandro Manzoni and the « war of the races », in G. Piaia – G. Zago (edited by), Thought and training. Studies in honor of Giuseppe Micheli, CLEUP, Padova 2016, pp. 299-313.

 

22. For a critique without alienation. A path between Marx, Adorno and Althusser, in "Political Philosophy", 2016, n. 3, pp. 451-468.

23. «Crítica» and [sic!] «ideologìa»: inversiones y virajes entre Marx, Adorno y Althusser, in F. Oncina – JM Romero (edited by), La historia sedimentada en los conceptos. Studies on conceptual history and criticism of ideology, Editorial Comares, Granada 2016, pp. 135-150.

 

24. Fichte, Henry and the Problem of Manifestation, in “Analecta Hermeneutica”, Vol. 8 (2016), pp. 295-306.

 

25. "A monstrous contradiction": Galluppi interpreter of Fichte and transcendental philosophy, in Pasquale Galluppi, Memoria sul sistema di Fichte, edited by G. Rametta, InSchibboleth, Rome 2017, pp. 9-21.

 

26. Bradley and the critique of relationships, in Philosophy and its history. Studies in honor of Gregorio Piaia, t. 2, edited by M. Longo and G. Micheli, CLEUP, Padua 2017, pp. 173-189.

27. Die transzendentale Grundlegung der Philosophie nach Reinhard Lauth, in M. Ivaldo, HG von Mainz, I. Radrizzani (Hrsg.), Vergegenwärtigung der Transzendentalphilosophie. Das philosophische Vermächtnis von Reinhard Lauths, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017, pp. 37-55.

28. Fichte, Henry and the problem of immanence, in Finding ourselves next to each other. For the eightieth birthday of Vincenzo Vitiello, edited by M. Adinolfi and M. Donà, InSchibboleth, Rome 2017, pp. 543-563.

29. Differences in the tragic: Oedipus and Antigone in Hölderlin, in F. Valagussa (edited by), The tragic in German idealism, Orthotes, Napoli-Salerno 2018, pp. 77-100.

30. Fichte, or the transcendental as wisdom, Afterword to JG Fichte, Doctrine of science 1813, edited by G. Gambaro, Roma Tre-Press, Rome 2018, pp. 109-118.

31. Gramsci and the idea of philosophy, in Crisis and criticism of modernity in Antonio Gramsci's prison notebooks, edited by L. Pasquini and P. Zanelli, Mimesis, Milan 2019, pp. 111-141.

32. Transcendental philosophy and the ontology of difference in Salomon Maimon,

“Philosophical disciplines”, Quodlibet, 2019, n. 1, pp. 177-200.
 

33. A Nietzschean asceticism: the case of Kazantzakis, “Aesthetics. Studies and researches”, the mill, 2019, n. 1, pp. 47-66.

34. Philology and philosophy. Nietzsche, the "humanitas" and the eternal return, in Franco Volpi. The modesty of thought, edited by G. Gurisatti and A. Gnoli, Morcelliana, Brescia 2019, pp. 111-126.

35. Volpi, Heidegger and the philosophical Roman world, in Franco Volpi philosopher and friend, edited by N. Curcio, Ronzani Editore, sl, 2019, pp. 89-111.

36. Uniqueness and singularity in Fichte, in Theories of the subject. Subjectivity, identity, consciousness in modern and contemporary thought, edited by M. Moschini, Orthotes, Naples-Salerno 2019, pp. 129-143.

37. The Encountering Subject: Being and Becoming in Fichte, in G. Rametta – M. Donà, Being and Becoming. Reflections on incontradictoriness starting from Fichte, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2019, pp. 9-46.

38. The sense of the transcendental in Gilles Deleuze, in Das Transzendentale und die praktische Philosophie, edited by G. Cogliandro, C. De Pascale, I. Radrizzani, Olms, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York 2020, pp. 223-243.

39. Deleuze interpreter of Hume. With an appendix on "Politics and jurisprudence", Mimesis, Milan 2020, pp. 88.

40. The problem of speculative exposure in Hegel's thought, InSchibboleth, Rome 2021, pp. 250.

41. Three contributions in Nova theoretica. Manifesto for a new philosophy, Castelvecchi, Rome 2021: "Transcendental", "Temporary" and "Jurisprudence".

42. Take Five, five contributions on Fichte and transcendental philosophy, Milan 2021, pp. 128.

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