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, Università della Calabria (Cosenza)
  • Licentiate Philosophy, Licentiate Theology: Centre Sèvres (Paris)
  • Ph.D., Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich
  • Habil. phil., Ludwig-Maximilians Universität 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, Ricœur, Jaspers

Systematic Philosophy: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion

Office Hours

M/W  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—Transcendance et finitude. La synthèse transcendantale dans la Critique de laraison pure de Kant, Paris: L’Harmattan 2005 and Kants Opus postumum und seine Rezeption, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2013—as well as several articles on Kant, Kar lJaspers, and Paul Ricoeur.

Books

As Author

Kants Opus postumum und seine Rezeption [Kant’s Opus postumum and its Reception]. Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte 175. De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston 2013. 536 p.

Transcendance et finitude. La synthèse transcendantale dans la Critique de la raison pure de Kant [Transcendence and Finitude. The Transcendental Synthesis in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason]. Preface by François Marty. L’Harmattan: Paris 2005. 210 p.

As Editor

Perspectives on Kant’s 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 Günter Zöller. Ed. by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy. Routledge: New York 2022.

Das Selbst und die Welt. Beiträge 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. Weiß.  Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg 2019.

Recent Publications

“Scheitern als Methode in Ricœurs Auslegung von Jaspers’ Existenzphilosophie” [Failure as Method in Ricœur’s Interpretation of Jaspers’ Existential Philosophy] In: Grundfragen Hermeneutischer Anthropologie: Paul Ricœurs Werk Im Historischen Kontext: Existenz, Interpretation, Praxis, Geschichte. 4. Vol. Edited by Burkhard Liebsch. Alber: Baden-Baden 2024. Vol. 1, 219–244.

“Kant et la philosophie de l’existence de Jaspers” [Kant and Jaspers’ Philosophy of Existence]. In: Repenser l’ontologie traditionnelle. La postérité de Kant. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of the Society of Kantian Studies in French (SEKLF). Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Milan: September 28–30, 2021. Vrin: Paris: 2024.

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

“François Marty’s interpretation of Kant’s Opus postumum”. In Perspectives on Kant’s Opus postumum. Ed. by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy. Routledge: New York 2022, 199–215.

“Kant und die Weltmaschinenmetapher” [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, 853–862.

 

 

 

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