Giuseppe Maggiore
Giuseppe Maggiore (27 July 1882 – 23 March 1954) was an Italian jurist and writer.
Biography
Giuseppe Maggiore was born in Palermo, the son of Filippo Maggiore, a doctor well known in the city, and Giuseppina (née Mucoli). A lawyer and philosopher of criminal law, he was a pupil of Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile, and adhered to the latter's thought, whom he met in 1908. After graduating in 1903 in law at the University of Palermo, he began his career in the magistracy in 1905; in 1907 he was at the Palermo court prosecutor's office, in 1908 a praetor in Favignana, in 1910 in Mezzojuso and in 1916 a deputy prosecutor of the king in Palermo. During those years, he frequented Giovanni Gentile who was teaching in Palermo.
In 1918, he had a free professorship in the philosophy of law at the University of Palermo. In 1923 he became the king's prosecutor in Palermo. He first held the chair in philosophy of law at the University of Perugia in 1922 and won the competition in 1924 at the University of Siena, leaving the judiciary. He obtained a professorship at the University of Palermo in 1925 and joined the PNF in October. He published his excerpt translation of Hegel's Philosophy of Right in 1925.[1]
Responding in the Catholic periodical La Tradizione (and thus in the Giornale d'Italia) to the review that the editor Pietro Mignosi had dedicated to his 1929 book, he substantially disavowed Gentile's positions on relations between Church and State, as L'Osservatore Romano promptly noted. Shortly afterwards, he re-evaluated the metaphysics of being in order to relocate himself within the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, as can be seen in a benevolent review of a book by the neo-scholastic Francesco Olgiati published moreover in Archivio di Filosofia, the journal of Enrico Castelli, Gentile's sworn enemy.[2]
In 1935 he moved to the chair of Criminal Law at the same university and was Dean of the Faculty. From 1936 he also taught State Doctrine. In 1934 he was appointed President of the Province of Palermo, a position he held until 1943. He was also a board member of the Banco di Sicilia.
A fine man of letters and writer, he was provincial secretary of the Authors' Union. From 1935 to 1939 he was Commissioner of the Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts. He also translated Quiller-Couch's Dead Man's Rock (1887) into italian.[3]
His legal production took on an increasingly occasional character, strengthening instead the strictly political nature of his writings, specially after Mussolini's visit to Sicily in August 1937. He was Rector of the University of Palermo in 1938–1939. In 1938 his name appeared among the 360 university professors who adhered to the Manifesto of Race, the premise of the subsequent racial laws. He also contributed to the magazine La Difesa della Razza with an article entitled "Logic and Morality of Racism".[4] He was the last national president of the Institute of Fascist Culture in 1943.
In February 1945, he was retired from teaching and took the opportunity to obtain a degree in literature in Palermo. He was reinstated in 1952 in the professorship. Giuseppe Maggiore was the founder of the renowned criminal law school in Palermo, whose heirs were Giovanni Musotto and later Antonio Pagliaro.
His most famous novel, Sette e mezzo (Seven and a Half), which recounts the Seven and a Half Days Revolt that took place in Palermo in 1866, was republished by Flaccovio in 1998.
Major publications
- L'unità del mondo nel sistema del pensiero (1913)
- Saggi di filosofia giuridica (1914)
- "Il valore etico della guerra," Rivista d'Italia (1915)
- II diritto e il suo processo ideale (1916)
- La politica (1920; 1941)
- Che è la borghesia? (1921)
- Fichte. Studio critico sul filosofo del nazionalismo socialista (1921)
- Filosofia del diritto (1921)
- La vita apparente di un uomo vero (1926; novel)
- Gli occhi cangianti (1928; novel)
- Un regime e un'epoca (1929)
- L'ordinamento sindacale (1930)
- Shiva maestro di danza (1930; novel)
- Principii di Diritto penale (1932–41).
- Delimitazioni e sconfinamenti tra il diritto penale e gli altri rami del diritto (1935)
- "Correnti filosofiche e riforme penali." In: Scritti in memoria del prof. Eduardo Massari (1936)
- Imperialismo e impero fascista (1937)
- Due in una carne (1937; novel)
- Razza e fascismo (1939)
- Nazione e popolo: mito e realtà (1942)
- Prolegomeni al concetto di colpevolezza (1950)
- "Estetica del diritto." In: Scritti giuridici in onore di Francesco Carnelutti (1950)
- Sette e mezzo (1952; novel)
- Vita di nessuno: note autobiografiche (1954; memoirs)
Notes
- ↑ Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1925). Filosofia del diritto. Firenze: Vallecchi.
- ↑ Maggiore, Giuseppe (1933). "Lex naturalis e jus naturale in s. Tommaso di Aquino," Archivio di filosofia, Vol. III, pp. 131–39.
- ↑ Quiller-Couch, A. T. (1932). Lo scoglio del morto. Milano/Roma: Treves Treccani Tumminelli.
- ↑ Maggiore, Giuseppe (1938). "Logica e moralità del razzismo," La difesa della razza, No. 3, pp. 31–32.
References
- Garilli, Giovanni (1954). "Giuseppe Maggiore (1882-1954)," Rivista internazionale di Filosofia del diritto, Anno XXXI, No. 3, pp. 428–34.
- Messina, Salvatore (1954). "Giuseppe Maggiore," La scuola positiva, No. 1/2, pp. 317–18.
- Pavan, Ilaria (2008). "La cultura penale fascista e il dibattito sul razzismo (1930-1939)," Ventunesimo Secolo, Vol. VII, No. 17, pp. 45–78.
- Zappoli, Stefano (2006). "Maggiore, Giuseppe." In: Dizionario biografico degli italiani, Vol. 67. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
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