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 does not be confused with an aestheticization of hospitality. It is a philosophy involved to reflect 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, on the philosophical margins of a creative work that put into effect the vital desire to know radically.
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.
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.
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.