Topic: Massimo Cacciari
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I saw a gentleman peeing in a canal and took the liberty of telling him that he probably wouldn't do so in his living room
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I saw a gentleman peeing in a canal and took the liberty of telling him that he probably wouldn't do so in his living room
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Massimo Cacciari (June 5, 1944) is an Italian philosopher and politician, currently mayor of Venice, Italy.
Born in Venice, Massimo Cacciari graduated in philosophy from the University of Padua (1967), where he also received his doctorate, writing a thesis on Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Judgment." In 1985, he became professor of Aesthetics at the Architecture Institute of Venice. In 2002, he founded the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, where he was appointed Dean of the Department in 2005. Massimo Cacciari has founded several philosophical reviews and published essays centered on the "negative thought" inspired by authors like Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
In the 1980's, Cacciari also worked with the renowned Italian composer of avant-garde contemporary/classical music Luigi Nono. Nono, a political activist whose music represented a revolt against bourgeois cultural constructs, collaborated with Cacciari, who arranged the philosophical lyrics on such works of Nono's as Das Atmende Klarsein, Io, and the opera Prometeo.
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