Jean Soldini

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Jean Soldini (born 13 March 1956 in Lugano) is a Swiss and French philosopher, art historian and poet.

Biography

He studied in Paris, where he earned the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (1995), after he graduated with a Ph.D. in philosophy and with a preceding Ph.D. in history of architecture.

Knowledge and hospitality

His studies are aimed to build a non-authoritarian metaphysics where aesthetics of hospitality plays a primary role within knowledge, looking for the possibility of a resistance against the annihilation of the Other. A resistance against the arrogance of any kind of authoritarian thinking with its multiform camouflages, with its never-ending threat against what is existing-with-other. The aesthetics of hospitality should not be confused with the aestheticization of hospitality. It is a philosophical approach concerned with reflecting on sensation through what has its focus on the senses: to donate and receive food, water, a roof for sleeping. Soldini is also author of essays on Alberto Giacometti, exploring the philosophical margins of a creative work that put into effect the vital desire for radical understanding.

Bibliography

• Monico. L'opera incisa, preface by Vittorio Fagone, Bellinzona, Casagrande,1987.
• La Pinacoteca Züst, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1988.
• Affreschi tardoromanici nel Battistero di Riva San Vitale, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1990.
• Alberto Giacometti. Le colossal, la mère, le “sacré”, Lausanne, L'Age d'Homme, 1993.
• Saggio sulla discesa della bellezza. Linee per un'estetica, Milan, Jaca Book, 1995.
• Alberto Giacometti. La somiglianza introvabile, preface by René Schérer, Milan, Jaca Book, 1998.
• Cose che sporgono, “alla chiara fonte”, Lugano, 2004 (Book of the year 2005 of Swiss Schiller Foundation).
• Il riposo dell'amato. Una metafisica per l'uomo nell'epoca del mercato come fine unico, Milan, Jaca Book, 2005.
• "Storia, memoria, arte sacra tra passato e futuro", Sacre Arti, edited by F. Gualdoni, texts by T. Tzara, S. Yanagi, T. Burckhardt, 2008.
• “Resistance and Beauty of the Other”, FMR White Edition, Milan, 2008, n.4, pp. 96–109.
• Bivacchi, Ulivo, Balerna 2009.
• Resistenza e ospitalità, Milan, Jaca Book, 2010.
• A testa in giù. Per un'ontologia della vita in comune, preface by René Schérer, Milan, Mimesis, 2012.
• Tenere il passo, preface by Jean-Charles Vegliante, Edizioni Lietocolle, Faloppio (Como) 2014.
• Alberto Giacometti. L'espace et la force, Éditions Kimé, Paris, 2016.
• Graphics on the Border between Art and Thought / Alberto Giacometti. Grafica al confine fra arte e pensiero, edited by Jean Soldini and Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, Skira, Milan 2020.
• Schiave e minatori. Versi per una scena, Museo Vela, Ligornetto 2021.
• Il cuore dell'essere, la grazia delle attrazioni. Tentativi di postantropocentrismo, preface by Roberto Diodato, Milan, Mimesis, 2022.
• Quaderno a righe. Poesie 2014-2022, preface by Angelo Maugeri, Forlimpopoli, L'Arcolaio, 2023.
• Prima del cielo e del mare, preface by Alberto Fraccacreta, Latiano, Interno Libri Edizioni, 2026.
• La “follia” del comune, la passione del reale. Ripensare la materialità e la democrazia contro il nichilismo, preface by Claudia Baracchi, Pistoia, Editrice Petite Plaisance, 2026.
• La persistenza di un cosmo minore, in Anna Beltrametti, Pasolini, Petrolio. I classici non sono più una risorsa per raccontare la contemporaneità. Ricerca (e fallimento) di una narrazione totale, Pistoia, Editrice Petite Plaisance, 2026, pp. 5-54.

References

• Sylvain Latendresse, “Giacometti: à l’ombre du marcheur”, Espace Sculpture, Montréal, n° 46, 1998.
• Terry Kirk, The Architecture of Modern Italy. The Challenge of Tradition 1750-1900, Princeton Architectural Press, New York 2005.
• Giovanni Trabucco, “Arte e Teologia”, Orientamenti bibliografici, edited by the Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia settentrionale, Milano 2006, 28.
• Maria Dolores Pesce, “Della trascendenza orizzontale”, dramma.it, 2006.
• Isabelle Roche, “La Revue Blanche FMR numéro 4”, Le Litteraire.com, 3 dicembre 2008.
• Christine Bouche, Alberto Giacometti. La femme, le sphinx et l'effroi, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004.
• James Madge and Andrew Peckham, Narrating Architecture. A Retrospective Anthology, London, Routledge, 2006, p. 35.
• Julie F. Codell, The Political Economy of Art. Making the Nation of Culture, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, New Jersey 2008.
• Pascal Gabellone, La blessure du réel. La poésie et l'art à l'épreuve du monde, Parigi, L'Harmattan, 2011.
• Marco Martinelli, interview by, “«Ma noi siamo stranieri». Un incontro a Lido Adriano su ospitalità e libertà”, Cenobio, 2012, 1.
• Modesta di Paola, Ética de la hospitalidad lingüística, in "Interartive", 47, December 2012
• Renato Miracco, “Alberto Giacometti: The Core of Life”, i-Italy, The multimedia network for all things Italian in America, June 28, 2018.
• Modesta di Paola,Cosmopolitics and Biopolitics. Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Art, Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 2018.

External links

• Viceversa Littérature
• Alberto Giacometti: a single-minded passion
• L'avventura della realtà^{[dead link]}
• Jean Soldini, Frontiera-e vita in comune