Alessandro Biral

Alessandro Biral (1942 – 1996) was an Italian historian of philosophy.

Biography

His parents were teachers who set him, especially his father, a noted student of Giacomo Leopardi, on a strict course of study. Initially enrolled in the Faculty of Chemistry in Padua, he almost immediately changed faculties, enrolling in the Faculty of Philosophy, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1965 with a thesis on Hegel's aesthetics and a doctorate on the unity of knowledge in Husserlian thought.

He began his academic career in 1965 as a volunteer assistant professor in the History of Philosophy department, and in 1970 he became a tenured assistant professor in the History of Philosophy department of the Faculty of Humanities in Venice, where he was assigned to teach Moral Philosophy. Adjunct professor until 1980 he was appointed associate professor of History of Political Philosophy.

In the recollection of his students he appears as a teacher who carefully prepared his lectures starting from a multiplicity of initially unresolved topics that gradually converged to the unified final explanation. Although of a reserved nature, he did not disdain to have a dialogical relationship in and out of the faculty with his students.

Works

• Platone e la conoscenza di sé (1997)
• Storia e critica della filosofia politica moderna (1999; edited by Giuseppe Duso)
• Sulla politica (2003; edited by Michela Bernardi & Lorenzo Morri)
• La felicità. Lezioni su Platone e Nietzsche (2005; edited by Lorenzo Morri)
• Che cos'è la politica? Dialoghi con Alessandro Biral (2005; edited by Filiberto Battistin)
• La società senza governo. Lezioni sulla Rivoluzione Francese (2009; edited by Lorenzo Furano; 2 volumes)
• Per una storia del concetto di politica. Lezioni su Aristotele e Hobbes (2012; edited by M. Bernardi)

External links

• Works by Alessandro Biral at Open Library