Steno Tedeschi Explained

Steno Tedeschi
Birth Date:1881
Birth Place:Trieste, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Death Date:1911
Relatives:Italo Svevo
Notable Works:"La coscienza estetica secondo Stefano Witasek"
Region:Western philosophy
Era:20th-century philosophy
School Tradition:Graz School
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Academic Advisors:Alexius Meinong, Stephan Witasek
Influenced:Giani Stuparich

Steno Tedeschi (1881 - 1911[1]) was an Italian intellectual and academic. His works were associated with the ideas of the Graz School and he is noted for contributing to its object theory and Stephan Witasek's aesthetics.[2] Tedeschi was Italo Svevo's cousin.

Biography

Tedeschi was born in 1881 in Trieste, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a cousin of Italo Svevo. Tedeschi studied in Graz from 1904 to 1906. There, he became a student of the Austrian philosopher, Alexius Meinong.[3] Tedeschi would study and illustrate the latter's theory of objects.[4] Under the tutelage of Stephan Witasek, Tadeschi was introduced to the notion of habit through the latter's idea of value beauty or Wertschönheit. He would expand Witasek's position that habits possess the capacity of creating needs and values. When he returned to Trieste, he attempted to promote and defend the ideas of the Graz School. After completing his education, he first taught the Municipal Gymnasium of Trieste.[5] He became a professor of philosophy[6] and is said to have taught and inspired the Italian writer Giani Stuparich.[7]

In 1911, Tedeschi committed suicide in front of his dying mother, Peppina Tedeschi.[8]

Works

One of Tedeschi's notable works was a review of Otto Weininger's Geschlecht und Charackter (1903), which  - for some in Italy  - became an alternative to Freudian psychoanalysis.[9] Weinenger also committed suicide. Tedeschi was working on the Italian translation of the Grundzüge der allgemeinen Ästhetik when he also took his own life. The text, which was completed by Mariano Graziussi, included three essays that explored Witasek's conceptualization of value and beauty. These were published as part of the introductory article called "La coscienza estetica secondo Stefano Witasek" ("The aesthetic consciousness according to Stefan Witasek").

Tedeschi also authored critical analyses of other thinkers. For example, he identified Otto Weininger as "the antifeminist philosopher", who was able to effectively expand the feminism theme  - a topic that he said was vaguely developed in the works of his contemporaries such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and August Strindberg.[10] In his examination of Witasek's conception of value and beauty, Tedeschi suggested that habit has immense potential for creating values and that it facilitates "the apperception of the produced representations", leading to enhanced enjoyment.[11] Tedeschi considered himself a bridge between the Graz and the Florentine schools. Tedeschi's works had been published in periodicals such as Cantoni, Cultura, Rivista di Psic., and Rivista d'Italia.[12]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Book: Coda, Elena. Italo Svevo. 1972. Department of English, Purdue University. 978-0-8057-6649-3. en.
  2. Book: Raspa, Venanzio. The Aesthetics of the Graz School. Ontos Verlag. 2010. 978-3-86838-076-7. Frankfurt. 40. en.
  3. Web site: CFP: Alexius Meinong and His Contemporaries . 2022-03-28 . groups.io.
  4. Book: Raspa, Venanzio . Meinongian Issues in Contemporary Italian Philosophy . Transaction Books . 2013 . 978-3-938793-35-0 . Piscataway, NJ . 16 . en.
  5. Book: Di Giovanni . Piero . Collana di Filosofia Italiana . Genna . Caterina . FrancoAngeli . 2015 . Milan . 95.
  6. Book: Weiss, Beno . Italo Svevo . Twayne Publishers . 1987 . 978-0-8057-6649-3 . Woodbridge, CT . 149 . en.
  7. Fava . Sabrina . 2021 . Inquietudine e disincanto tra i banchi: Un anno di scuola di Giani Stuparich dal racconto al film . Journal of Theories and Research in Education . 16 . 1 . 205–215.
  8. Raspa . Venanzio . 2014-06-01 . L'estetica dimenticata: la vicenda della scuola di Graz . Rivista di estetica . it . 56 . 217–252 . 10.4000/estetica.904 . 0035-6212. free .
  9. Book: Minghelli, Giuliana . In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism . University of Toronto Press . 2002 . 0-8020-3638-4 . Toronto . 61 . en.
  10. Book: McCourt . John . The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920 . McCourt . Associate Professor of English Literature John . University of Wisconsin Press . 2000 . 978-0-299-16980-0 . 229 . en.
  11. Book: Raspa, Venanzio . The Aesthetics of the Graz School . Ontos Verlag . 2010 . 978-3-86838-076-7 . Frankfurt . 41 . en.
  12. Book: Rivista di filosofia . 1912 . A.F. Formiggini . it.