Jean Soldini

Jean Soldini (born 13 March 1956 in Lugano) is a Swiss and French philosopher, art historian and poet.

Biography

He studied in Paris, where he earned the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (1995), after he graduated with a Ph.D. in philosophy and with a preceding Ph.D. in history of architecture.

Knowledge and hospitality

His studies are aimed to build a non-authoritarian metaphysics where aesthetics of hospitality plays a primary role within knowledge, looking for the possibility of a resistance against the annihilation of the Other. A resistance against the arrogance of any kind of authoritarian thinking with its multiform camouflages, with its never-ending threat against what is existing-with-other. The aesthetics of hospitality does not be confused with an aestheticization of hospitality. It is a philosophy involved to reflect on sensation through what has its focus on the senses: to donate and receive food, water, a roof for sleeping.
Soldini is also author of essays on Alberto Giacometti, on the philosophical margins of a creative work that put into effect the vital desire to know radically.

Bibliography

*''Monico. L'opera incisa'', preface by Vittorio Fagone, Bellinzona, Casagrande,1987.
*''La Pinacoteca Züst'', Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1988.
*''Affreschi tardoromanici nel Battistero di Riva San Vitale'', Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1990.
*''Alberto Giacometti. Le colossal, la mère, le “sacré”'', Lausanne, L’Age d'Homme, 1993.
*''Saggio sulla discesa della bellezza. Linee per un'estetica'', Milan, Jaca Book, 1995.
*''Alberto Giacometti. La somiglianza introvabile'', preface by René Schérer, Milan, Jaca Book, 1998.
*''Cose che sporgono'', “alla chiara fonte”, Lugano, 2004 (Book of the year 2005 of Swiss Schiller Foundation).
*''Il riposo dell'amato. Una metafisica per l'uomo nell'epoca del mercato come fine unico'', Milan, Jaca Book, 2005.
*"Storia, memoria, arte sacra tra passato e futuro", ''Sacre Arti'', edited by F. Gualdoni, texts by T. Tzara, S. Yanagi, T. Burckhardt, 2008.
*“Resistance and Beauty of the Other”, ''FMR White Edition'', Milan, 2008, n.4, pp. 96–109.
*''Bivacchi'', Ulivo, Balerna 2009.
*''Resistenza e ospitalità'', Milan, Jaca Book, 2010.
*''A testa in giù. Per un'ontologia della vita in comune'', preface by René Schérer, Milan, Mimesis, 2012.
*''Tenere il passo'', preface by Jean-Charles Vegliante, Edizioni Lietocolle, Faloppio (Como) 2014.
*''Alberto Giacometti. L'espace et la force'', Éditions Kimé, Paris, 2016.
*''Graphics on the Border between Art and Thought / Alberto Giacometti. Grafica al confine fra arte e pensiero'', edited by Jean Soldini and Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, Skira, Milan 2020.
*''Schiave e minatori. Versi per una scena'', Museo Vela, Ligornetto 2021.
*''Il cuore dell'essere,la grazia delle attrazioni. Tentativi di postantropocentrismo'',preface by Roberto Diodato, Milan, Mimesis, 2022.

References

*Sylvain Latendresse, “Giacometti: à l’ombre du marcheur”, ''Espace Sculpture'', Montréal, n° 46, 1998.
*Terry Kirk, ''The Architecture of Modern Italy. The Challenge of Tradition 1750-1900'', Princeton Architectural Press, New York 2005.
*Giovanni Trabucco, “Arte e Teologia”, ''Orientamenti bibliografici'', edited by the Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia settentrionale, Milano 2006, 28.
*Maria Dolores Pesce, “Della trascendenza orizzontale”, ''dramma.it'', 2006.
*Isabelle Roche, “La Revue Blanche FMR numéro 4”, ''Le Litteraire.com'', 3 dicembre 2008.
*Christine Bouche, ''Alberto Giacometti. La femme, le sphinx et l'effroi'', Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004.
*James Madge and Andrew Peckham, ''Narrating Architecture. A Retrospective Anthology'', London, Routledge, 2006, p. 35.
*Julie F. Codell, ''The Political Economy of Art. Making the Nation of Culture'', Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, New Jersey 2008.
*Pascal Gabellone, ''La blessure du réel. La poésie et l'art à l'épreuve du monde'', Parigi, L'Harmattan, 2011.
*Marco Martinelli, interview by, “«Ma noi siamo stranieri». Un incontro a Lido Adriano su ospitalità e libertà”, '' Cenobio'', 2012, 1.
*Modesta di Paola, ''Ética de la hospitalidad lingüística'', in "Interartive", 47, December 2012 http://interartive.org/2012/12/etica-hospitalidad-linguistica/
* Renato Miracco, “Alberto Giacometti: The Core of Life”, ''i-Italy'', The multimedia network for all things Italian in America, June 28,2018.
*Modesta di Paola,''Cosmopolitics and Biopolitics. Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Art'',Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 2018.

External links

*http://www.viceversalitterature.ch/author/6044
*http://www.culturactif.ch/ecrivains/soldini_jean.htm
*http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/archive/Alberto_Giacometti:_a_single-minded_passion.html?cid=2300986
*http://www.swissinfo.ch/ita/index.html?cid=2288334
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070627052554/http://www.rtsi.ch/trasm/fiumi/welcome.cfm?idg=0
*http://nuovaprovincia.blogspot.com/2012/02/jean-soldini-frontiera-e-vita-in-comune.html
*http://www.teatrodellealbe.com/public/stagioni_pieghevoliecataloghi/Catalogo19.pdf

{{DEFAULTSORT:Soldini, Jean
Swiss art historians
Swiss male poets
Philosophers of art
20th-century Swiss philosophers
21st-century Swiss philosophers
Metaphysicians
Postmodernists
1956 births
Living people