- Emanuele Severino
Emanuele Severino (
February 26 ,1929 inBrescia ,Italy ) is one of the most important contemporary Italian philosophers.Severino studied at the
University of Pavia underGustavo Bontadini , though he broke publicly from Bontadini in 1970 while both were on the faculty of theUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore inMilan . Severino spent a number of years on the faculty of theUniversity of Venice as well. [cite book | editor = Silvia Benso & Brian Schroeder | title = Contemporary Italian Philosophy | publisher = SUNY Press | year = 2007 | id = ISBN 0791471357 | pages = pp. 194–195]Because of his philosophical original position, so called "neoparmenidism", Severino has been claimed to be "a giant" and "the only philosopher who in the 20th century can be compared to
Heidegger ".fact|date=March 2008Severino has received from the President of the Italian Republic the "Golden medal of the Republic for culture merits" ("Medaglia d’oro della Repubblica per i Benemeriti della Cultura"). He is also a member of
Accademia dei Lincei , the official Italian scientificacademy . He has won several prizes and writes sometimes on the "Corriere della Sera " newspaper.Severino puts in full light that everything is eternal.
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* [Donato Sperduto: "Vedere senza vedere ovvero Il crepuscolo della morte / Sehen ohne zu sehen oder Der Untergang des Todes", Schena ed., Fasano. 2007: a tragi-comedy on E. Severino. - www.filosofia.it/pagine/pdf/recensioni/Sperduto%20Vedere_Severino.pdf]
* [http://www.filosofico.net/severinoenglish.htm Biography on filosofico.net]
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