Costanzo Preve
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14 April 1943 Valenza, Piedmont, Italy |
| Died | 23 November 2013 (aged 70) Turin, Piedmont, Italy |
| Alma mater | University of Turin |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Revival of German Idealism Western Marxism |
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Marxist philosophy Ancient Greek philosophy Politics |
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Communitarism Universalism Anti-capitalism |
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Costanzo Preve (14 April 1943 – 23 November 2013) was an Italian philosopher and a political theoretician. He is widely considered as one of the most important anti-capitalist European thinkers and a renowned expert in the history of Marxism. His thought is based on the Ancient Greek and Idealistic tradition philosophy, under the influence of Fichte, Hegel and Marx. He is author of many essays and volumes about philosophical interpretation, Communitarism and Universalism.
Born in Valenza, Preve studied philosophy, political science and ancient and modern Greek in Turin, Paris and Athens. He worked as a high school teacher from 1967 to 2002, and was engaged first in the Italian Communist Party (PCI) then got close to Democrazia Proletaria, a party created in 1975 and opposed to the "historic compromise" between the PCI and the Christian Democracy. After the dissolving of the PCI following the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, Costanzo Preve undertook a critical review of his own positions held in the precedent decades. He gave lectures for, and took part in some of the cultural activities, of the Anti-Imperialist Camp, a union of international leftist anti-imperialist activists, who have received much attention from the media because of their critical stand against US imperialism and Zionism. Since 2005 he writes for a geopolitical journal, Eurasia.
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