Gino Zaccaria
Gino Zaccaria is an Italian philosopher known for his work on phenomenology, ontology, and aesthetics, particularly in relation to poetry. He is Senior Professor (Italian: "professore senior") of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bocconi University in Milan.[1]
Education and career
Classically educated, Zaccaria studied at Bocconi University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He initially worked in logic and linguistic pragmatics before turning to philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenology. He is also the co-director of the journal eudia – Yearbook for Philosophy, Poetry and Art.[2] Since 2012, he has been involved in the trans-disciplinary project ScienzaNuova, exploring the relation between philosophy and the natural sciences.[3]
Reception and influence
Contemporary reviews and critical responses note that, in Italy, his editions of Heidegger's Political Writings (1998) and The Origin of the Work of Art (2000, with Ivo De Gennaro) prompted sustained critical discussion in the press and in specialist venues.[4][5]In 2024, a Festschrift titled Verso gli speranti. Scritti in onore di Gino Zaccaria ("Towards the Hoping Things: Writings in Honor of Gino Zaccaria") was published. Contributors included Columbia University philosopher Achille C. Varzi. His essay, "I limiti del linguaggio e la via negativa" (The Limits of Language and the Negative Way), critically analyzed Zaccaria's 2021 book The Enigma of Art, focusing on its contribution to the English philosophical lexicon, such as the use of the term ''beënt'' to clarify the phenomenological concept of being (essente).[6]
Selected works (English)
- Books
- The Dictatorship of Value. Teaching and Research in the Planetary University (with Ivo De Gennaro), Milan–New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011. ISBN 9788838672873
- The Enigma of Art. On the Provenance of Artistic Creation, Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2021. ISBN 9789004448704
- Science under the Yoke of Value. A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Evaluation Machinery (with Maurizio Borghi and Ivo De Gennaro), London: Routledge, 2025. ISBN 9780367681616
- Book Chapters
- "Time and Value," in I. De Gennaro, H. Hofmeister, R. Lüfter (eds), Academic Freedom in the European Context: Legal, Philosophical and Institutional Perspectives, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. ISBN 9783030869335
- "The Dictatorship of Value. Teaching and Research in the Planetary University," in I. De Gennaro (ed.), Value, Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. ISBN 9789004218161
- Journal Articles
- "Das Nichts denken (Leopardi)," Heidegger Studies 19 (2003). ISBN 9783428111985
- "The Fiction of Peer Review. Phenomenology of a Catastrophe" (with Ivo De Gennaro), eudia, year 12 (2018). ISSN 2281-9193
Selected works (Italian)
Books
- L'etica originaria [Originary Ethics] (in Italian). Milan: EGEA. 1992. ISBN 88-238-0194-X.
- L'inizio greco del pensiero [The Greek Onset of Thought] (in Italian). Milan: Marinotti. 1999. ISBN 978-88-8273-007-9.
- Lingua pensiero canto [Mother-speech, Thought, Song] (in Italian) (2nd ed.). Pavia: Ibis. 2014. ISBN 978-88-7164-351-9.
- La provenienza dell'arte. Atena e l'enigma [The Provenance of Art: Athena and the Enigma] (in Italian). Pavia: Ibis. 2015. ISBN 978-88-7164-491-2.
- Pensare il nulla [Thinking the Null] (in Italian) (4th ed.). Pavia: Ibis. 2015. ISBN 978-88-7164-358-8.
- Meditazioni scismatiche. Il nulla e il tempo, l'infinito e l'arte [Schismatic Meditations: The Null and Time, the Infinite and Art] (in Italian). Florence: Olschki. 2022. ISBN 978-88-222-6830-3.
References
- ^ "Gino Zaccaria – Faculty Profile". Bocconi University. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ^ Zaccaria's role as co-director is verified at his Bocconi faculty profile. The journal is included in the list of scientific journals (Area 11) by Italy's National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research (ANVUR).
- "Elenco riviste scientifiche Area 11" (PDF). ANVUR (in Italian). Retrieved 7 November 2025.
- ^ "ScienzaNuova Project". Akademie Meran. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
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For the debate following the publication of the Italian edition of Martin Heidegger's Scritti politici (1933–1966), edited by Gino Zaccaria (Piemme, 1998), see:
- Mezzadra, Sandro (29 January 1998). "Una necessaria revisione storica". il manifesto (in Italian).
- Zaccaria, Gino (18 February 1998). "Il 'caso' Heidegger. Risposta a Mezzadra". il manifesto (in Italian).
- Mezzadra, Sandro (18 February 1998). "Il 'caso' Heidegger. Replica a Zaccaria". il manifesto (in Italian).
- Ferraris, Maurizio (7 June 1998). "Recensione a M. Heidegger, Scritti politici (1933–1966), a cura di G. Zaccaria". Il Sole 24 Ore (in Italian).
- Zaccaria, Gino (August 1998). "Replica a Maurizio Ferraris". Il Sole 24 Ore (in Italian).
- Iadicicco, Alessandra (11 June 2000). "L'esser-formattati". la Repubblica (in Italian).
- Massarenti, Armando (2000). "Heidegger, l'origine dell'opera d'arte e il senso della verità". Il Sole 24 Ore (in Italian).
- Torno, Armando (2000). "Heidegger, la parola e l'opera". Corriere della Sera (in Italian).
- "Heidegger: l'origine e la verità dell'arte". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 2004.
- Rigobello, Pietro (2007). "Avviamento a Heidegger". L'Osservatore Romano (in Italian).
- Volpi, Franco (3 January 2003). "Come è complicato tradurre Heidegger". la Repubblica (in Italian). pp. 40–41.
- ^ For academic discussion and citation of Zaccaria's work in international studies, see, for instance:
- Crétella, Henri (2000). "La révolution philosophique". Heidegger Studies (in French). 16: 139–165.
- Gutschmidt, Rico (2020). "The Late Heidegger and a Post-Theistic Understanding of Religion". Religious Studies. 56 (2). Cambridge University Press: 152–168. doi:10.1017/S0034412518000276.
- Musto, Maria Francesca (2021). Le seuil de pierre. Introduction à une pensée du néant (PDF) (PhD thesis) (in French). ENS / Université de Rouen-Normandie.
- Castellari, Marco (2014). "Cent'anni di consuetudine. Studi italiani su Hölderlin dal 1915 a oggi" (PDF). Studia theodisca (in Italian). Hölderliniana I: 109–123.
(Cites two works by Zaccaria in footnote 20, p. 113: "L'etica originaria..." and "Hölderlin e il tempo di povertà".)
- Castellari, Marco (2005). "Hölderlin in Italien. Übersetzer und Dichter zwischen Eifer und Wagnis". Studia theodisca (in German). XII: 147–171.
(Cites Zaccaria's 1992 work in footnote 39: "Gino Zaccaria: Tre traduzioni da Hölderlin [...] L'etica originaria.")
- Camilleri, Sylvain; Perrin, Christophe, eds. (2016). "Bibliographie pour l'année 2015". Bulletin Heideggérien (in French). 6: 73.
(Lists on p. 73: "4.102. ZACCARIA (Gino), Pensare il nulla. Leopardi, Heidegger, Pavie, Ibis, 277 p.")
- Minnigerode, Anna (2023). Image and secrecy in Elizabethan England. Riddles and self-fashioning in courtly paintings for William Cecil and Christopher Ha (PDF) (PhD thesis). Heidelberg University.
(Cites "The Enigma of Art" in footnote 23 [p. 5] for the discussion on "secrecy" in art.)
- Timingeriu, Filip (2017). Člověk jako zoon politikon a filosofie jako výchova člověka [Man as Zoon Politikon and Philosophy as Education of Man] (PhD thesis) (in Czech). Prague: Charles University (Univerzita Karlova).
(Discusses Zaccaria's interpretation of Heidegger, citing three of his monographs: L'etica originaria, Lingua pensiero canto, and L'inizio greco del pensiero.)
- ^ Achille C. Varzi (2024). "I limiti del linguaggio e la via negativa". In De Gennaro, Ivo; Borghi, Maurizio (eds.). Verso gli speranti. Scritti in onore di Gino Zaccaria. Acta Maiensia (in Italian). Milan: Mimesis Edizioni. pp. 263–281. ISBN 9791222305301.
