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- Giovanni Emanuele Barié, appointed Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Milan University in 1937, is one of the most neglected
figures in Italian philosophy of the last century. An exponent of late Italian idealism, it could be argued that only through
his work, alongside that of others like Bernardino Varisco, Pantaleo Carabellese and Vito Fazio Allmayer, was Italian idealism
able to reach full theoretical maturity. Born in Milan in 1894, before going to university, Barié displayed great courage
on the battlefield during the first world war. On his return, he first studied Law and then took a second degree in Philosophy
under Piero Martinetti. In 1933, his La spiritualitŕ dell'essere e Leibniz enabled him to obtain a university teaching post,
first in Genoa, later in Rome and, finally, in Milan in the chair previously occupied by his mentor. The first period of Barié's
work is characterized by a re-evaluation of the Kantian a priori against the reductionist perspective of contemporary thought.
Books like La posizione gnoseologica della matematica (1925) and Oltre la Critica (1929) belong to this stage in his life.
From 1933, Barié started on an interpretation of Hegel with the intention of toning down the transcendental aspects of Kant's
and Martinetti's thought. His most important writings from this period are L'io trascendentale (1948) and his last work Il
concetto trascendentale (1957), which came out in the same year the philosopher committed suicide.
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