1. Costanzo Preve was an Italian philosopher and a political theoretician.
13 Facts About Costanzo Preve
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Costanzo Preve's thought is based on the Ancient Greek and idealistic tradition philosophy under the influence of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx.
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Costanzo Preve is author of many essays and volumes about philosophical interpretation, communitarianism and universalism.
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Costanzo Preve worked as a high school teacher from 1967 to 2002 and was engaged first in the Italian Communist Party.
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Costanzo Preve then got close to Proletarian Democracy, a party created in 1975 which opposed to the historic compromise between the PCI and the Christian Democracy.
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Costanzo Preve gave lectures for and took part in some of the cultural activities of the Anti-Imperialist Camp, a union of international leftist anti-imperialist activists who have received much attention from the media because of their critical stand against American imperialism and Zionism.
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Costanzo Preve was initially influenced by Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser before turning himself towards Georg Lukacs.
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Costanzo Preve conceived of the 1960s as a rupture in history in much the same way that the appearance of the proletariat in the 19th century had been as capitalism entered a new phase.
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However, Costanzo Preve insists against Althusser on the young Marx's theory of alienation and on his theory on human nature and provocatively considered Marxism as the last phase of German idealism.
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Costanzo Preve has insisted on the unprecedented power of the sole hyperpower, that is the United States, warning against cultural imperialism.
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Costanzo Preve criticized Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt's Empire.
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Costanzo Preve assigned four masters to Marx, namely Epicurus for his materialism and theory of clinamen; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from which come his idea of egalitarian democracy; Adam Smith, from whom came the idea that the grounds of property is labour; and finally Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
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On 23 November 2013, Costanzo Preve died in Turin, where he lived.