Enzo Melandri ( Genoa , 1926 - Faenza , 1993 ) was a philosopher Italian .

Biography
He graduated in 1958 at ' University of Bologna , is player of Italian until 1961 at the University of Kiel in Germany . He then taught philosophy in several Italian universities ( Lecce , Trieste and Bologna ) between 1962 and 1993 , the year of his death. Alongside his academic activity, he has worked for a long time - since the end of the fifties - with the publishing house Il Mulino and the magazine of the same name, for which he has worked as a consultant, with translations and guardianship of some volumes, publishing it with some of his most important works. Among his guardianship, even at other publishing houses (Hats, Faenza, Laterza, Ponte alle Grazie, Giuffre, Pythagoras, etc..), There are studies ranging from science policy Gerhard Ritter or Jrgen Habermas , the phenomenology of Alfred Schtz , by the logic of Irving Marmer Copi or Ernst Hoffmann or the paradoxes of Bernard Bolzano (and then the story of the logic of Heinrich Scholz), studies of scientific methodology of Arthur Pap, to those of the psychology of perception of Alexius Meinong or Christian von Ehrenfels , and aesthetics of Eduard Trier to 'metaphorology "of Hans Blumenberg etc.. In 1979, he established an interdisciplinary group of studies of Gottfried Leibniz , later affiliated with the name of "Sodalitas Leibnitiana" to the Leibniz-Gesellschaft in Hannover . He has also collaborated actively in the eighties, the activities of the "Center of Studies for the Central European philosophy" (based in Trento); participating in 1982 to the creation of "Topoi", international journal of philosophy. In those years has given rise to the "Annals of the Institute of the disciplines of philosophy, University of Bologna," thenturned - since 1991 - in the bi-annual magazine "Branches of Philosophy," still active although sporadic and of which he was the first director. Among his other texts, stands out for the centrality of thought that line and the circle that has been described by Giorgio Agamben , "a masterpiece of European philosophy of the twentieth century."

Works
The paradoxes of the infinite horizon phenomenological (1960) Logic and experience in Husserl (1960) Modern science as a criterion of historiography (1962) Some notes in the margins of all '' Organon 'Aristotle (1965) Critical Considerations on 'syncategorematica "(1966) Voices Existentialism, Logic and Logistics encyclopedia Philosophy, edited by Giulio Preti (1966) Kurt Lewin : psychology as a science of Galileo (1967) Michel Foucault : the epistemology of the human sciences (1967) And logically correct use of analogy in the law? (1968) The line and the circle. Studio logical-philosophical analogy (1968), Quodlibet , Macerata 2004 (foreword by Giorgio Agamben , Appendix di Stefano and Roberto Besoli Brig, bibliography by Salvatore Limongi) Note in margin to '"episteme" of Foucault "(1970) The reality and the image: an introduction (in Hans Barth, Truth and Ideology) (1971) On the current crisis of philosophy (1972) Pour une analyze des langages mixtes (1973, on 'Versus' ) The analogy, proportion, symmetry (1974) Literary genres and their origin (1980) Seven variations in terms of psychology and social sciences (1984) For a philology of the sublime (1984) Communication and Rhetoric (1987) Against the symbolic. Ten lectures on philosophy (1989), Quodlibet , Macerata 2007 (afterword by Luca Guidetti) On that which is given (1990) The "Logical Investigations" of Husserl: introduction and commentary on the first search (1990) Time and temporality phenomenological horizon (1991) The crisis of large systems and the advent of existential philosophy (1997) Philosophy as a critique of knowledge and interdisciplinary effort (1999)

The unconscious and the dialectic, which comprise the Conference speech given at the Gramsci Institute in Rome over Ignacio Matte Blanco, Einaudi 1981; spa Hair Bologna, 1983