Philosophy Department Faculty

Giovanni Pietro Basile, S.J.

Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies

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Giovanni Pietro Basile, S.J.

Ph.D., Habil. phil.

Contact

Stokes Hall North 311

Telephone: 1-617-552-3864

Email: giampiero.basile@bc.edu

Education

  • M.A. Physics, Universit脿 della Calabria (Cosenza)
  • Licentiate Philosophy, Licentiate Theology: Centre S猫vres (Paris)
  • Ph.D., Ludwig-Maximilians Universit盲t Munich
  • Habil. phil., Ludwig-Maximilians Universit盲t Munich

Courses

Perspectives on Western Culture / Philosophy of the Person
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
The Concept of the Tragic in 20th-Century Philosophy

Research Interests

History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy: Kant, Ric艙ur, Jaspers

Systematic Philosophy: Metaphysics,听Philosophy of Religion

Office Hours

M/W听 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.

Department

Philosophy

Profile

Giovanni Pietro Basile is currently associate professor in the Philosophy Department of Boston College. After completing studies in physics, theology, and philosophy, he earned his PhD in philosophy at the LMU Munich, where he also received the German Habilitation. He is a member of the Reviewers Panel of the journals Gregorianum and Kant-Studien. Among his main publications are two books鈥擳ranscendance et finitude. La synth猫se transcendantale dans la Critique de laraison pure de Kant, Paris: L鈥橦armattan 2005 and Kants Opus postumum und seine Rezeption, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2013鈥攁s well as several articles on Kant, Kar lJaspers, and Paul Ricoeur.

Books

As Author

Kants Opus postumum und seine Rezeption [Kant鈥檚 Opus postumum and its Reception]. Kantstudien-Erg盲nzungshefte 175. De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston 2013. 536 p.

Transcendance et finitude. La synth猫se transcendantale dans la Critique de la raison pure de Kant [Transcendence and Finitude. The Transcendental Synthesis in Kant鈥檚 Critique of Pure Reason]. Preface by Fran莽ois Marty. L鈥橦armattan: Paris 2005. 210 p.

As Editor

Perspectives on Kant鈥檚 Opus postumum. Ed. by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy. Routledge: New York 2022.

System and Freedom in Kant and Fichte. Festschrift in honor of G眉nter Z枚ller. Ed. by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy. Routledge: New York 2022.

Das Selbst und die Welt. Beitr盲ge zu Kant und der nachkantischen Philosophie [The Self and the World. Contributions to Kant and Post-kantian Philosophy] Ed. by Manja Kisner, Giovanni Pietro Basile, Ansgar Lyssy and Michael B. Wei脽.听 K枚nigshausen & Neumann: W眉rzburg 2019.

Recent Publications

鈥淪cheitern als Methode in听Ric艙urs听Auslegung von Jaspers鈥� Existenzphilosophie鈥� [Failure as Method in Ric艙ur鈥檚 Interpretation of Jaspers鈥� Existential Philosophy] In:听Grundfragen Hermeneutischer Anthropologie: Paul Ric艙urs Werk Im Historischen Kontext: Existenz, Interpretation, Praxis, Geschichte. 4. Vol. Edited by Burkhard Liebsch. Alber: Baden-Baden 2024. Vol. 1, 219鈥�244.

鈥淜ant听et la philosophie de l鈥檈xistence de Jaspers鈥澨齕Kant and Jaspers鈥� Philosophy of Existence]. In:听Repenser l鈥檕ntologie traditionnelle. La post茅rit茅 de Kant.听Proceedings of the 15th听International Congress of the Society of Kantian Studies in French听(SEKLF). Universit脿 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Milan: September 28鈥�30, 2021. Vrin: Paris: 2024.

鈥�Opus postumum鈥�. In:听The Kantian Mind. Ed. by Sorin Baiasu and Mark Timmon. Routledge: London/New York 2024, 467鈥�478.

鈥淔ran莽ois Marty鈥檚 interpretation of Kant鈥檚 Opus postumum鈥�. In Perspectives on Kant鈥檚 Opus postumum. Ed. by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy. Routledge: New York 2022, 199鈥�215.

鈥淜ant und die Weltmaschinenmetapher鈥� [Kant and the World Machine Metaphor]. In The Court of Reason. Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress. Ed. by Beatrix Himmelmann and Camilla Serck-Hanssen with the Assistance of Maren Kildahl Fjeld. 3 vol. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston 2022, 853鈥�862.

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