Philosophy Department Faculty

Giovanni Pietro Basile, S.J.

Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies

Department

Philosophy

Profile

Giovanni Pietro Basile is currently associate professor in the Philosophy Department of ֱ 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/ֱ: 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/ֱ 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 inRicœursAuslegung 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.

“Kantet 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 15thInternational 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/ֱ 2022, 853–862.