Marcello Pera
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Senator Marcello Pera |
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| President of the Italian Senate | |
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In office May 30, 2001 – April 27, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Nicola Mancino |
| Succeeded by | Franco Marini |
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| Born |
January 23, 1943 Lucca, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | Independent |
| Other political affiliations |
Italian Socialist Party (until 1994) Forza Italia (1994-2009) The People of Freedom (2009-2012) |
| Profession |
Philosopher Politician |
Marcello Pera (Italian pronunciation: [marˈtʃɛllo ˈpɛːra]) (born January 28, 1943) is an Italian philosopher and politician. He was the President of the Italian Senate from 2001 to 2006.
Pera, who was born in Lucca, graduated in accounting, and he worked for the Banca Toscana and for the Camera di Commercio in Lucca. He went on to study philosophy at the University of Pisa, concentrating on the works of Karl Popper and his open society theory, and advocating these principles during the difficult 1970s, the anni di piombo.
His academic career began 1976 at the University of Pisa. He then went on to pursue research activities internationally: Visiting Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, 1984; Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., 1990; Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Philosophy of Natural Sciences, London School of Economics, 1995-96. He taught Theoretical Philosophy from 1989 to 1992 at the University of Catania. In 1992 he became full professor of Philosophy at the University of Pisa.
Marcello Pera has written for the newspapers Corriere della Sera, Il Messaggero, and La Stampa, and to the news magazines L'Espresso and Panorama.
Pera has become a leading opponent of post-modernism and cultural relativism and on this subject he resonates with religious thinkers.
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