Paolo Flores D’Arcais was born in Cervignano del Friuli, Italy, in 1944. He wrote his doctoral thesis on Adam Smith and Karl Marx, and is now a researcher in the philosophical faculty of La Sapienza University in Rome. He is editor of the magazine ‘MicroMega’ and has also written for various newspapers, including ‘El País’ and the ‘FAZ’. Several of his texts have been published in German, including ‘L’individuo libertario’ (1997). He is considered one of the most important critics of the Italian left and confirmed this with his book “Il sovrano e il dissidente” (2004; t: The sovereign and the dissident). In this political polemic paper, he pleaded to fully exercise one’s democratic rights. In “Dio esiste?” (2006; t: Is there God?) he and Joseph Ratzinger – before being elected Pope – discuss religion from a theleological and left-philosophical point of view.
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Il piccolo sinistrese illustrato
SugarCo
Mailand, 1978
Il dubbio e la certezza: nei dintorni del marxismo e oltre (1971-1981)
SugarCo
Milano, 1982
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Marietti
Genova, 1990
Oltre il PCI: per un partito libertario e riformista
Marietti
Genova, 1990
La rimozione permanente: il futuro della sinistra e la critica del comunismo
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Genova, 1991
Etica senza fede
Einaudi
Torino, 1992
Libertärer Existenzialismus: Zur Aktualität der Theorie von Hannah Arend
Neue Kritik
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Il disincanto tradito
Torino
Bollati Boringhieri, 1994
Hannah Arendt: esistenza e libertà
Donzelli
Roma, 1995
Il populismo italiano da Craxi a Berlusconi
Donzelli
Roma, 1996
Die Linke und das Individuum: Ein politisches Pamphlet
Wagenbach
Berlin, 1997
L’individuo libertario: percorsi di filosofia morale e politica nell’orizzonte del finito
Einaudi
Torino, 1999
Die Demokratie bei Wort nehmen. Der Souverän und der Dissident
Wagenbach
Berlin, 2004
Gibt es Gott? Wahrheit, Glaube, Atheismus (mit Joseph Ratzinger)
Wagenbach
Berlin, 2006
Il ventennio populista: da Craxi a Berlusconi (passando per D’Alema?)
Fazi
Roma, 2006
Hannah Arendt: esistenza e libertà, autenticità e politica
Fazi
Roma, 2006
Atei o credenti?: filosofia, politica, etica, scienza
[mit Michel Onfray, Gianni Vattimo]
Fazi
Roma, 2007
Übersetzer: Friederike Hausmann, Ulrich Hausmann, Roland H. Wiegenstein
