Aut Aut

{{Short description|Philosophy magazine in Italy}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox magazine | logo = | logo_size = | image_file =  | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Philosophy magazine | frequency = Weekly | circulation = | publisher = | founder = Enzo Paci | founded = {{start date and age|1951}} | firstdate = | finaldate = | company = | country = Italy | based = Milan | language = Italian | website = [https://autaut.ilsaggiatore.com/ ''Aut Aut''] | issn = 0005-0601 | oclc = 1788648 }} '''''Aut Aut''''' is a critical philosophy and literary magazine published in Milan, Italy. Its name is of Latin origin and refers to existential choice and also, to Søren Kierkegaard's ''either/or'' conceptualization.<ref name=routgm>{{cite book|editor=Gino Moliterno |title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture|year=2005|publisher=Routledge|location=London; New York|isbn=0-203-74849-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6vVS_Y1mcIEC|page=58}}</ref>

==History and profile== Subtitled ''Rivista di filosofia e di cultura'',<ref name="paci">{{cite journal|author=Sergio J. Pacifici|title=Current Italian Literary Periodicals: A Descriptive Checklist|jstor=40094752|journal=Books Abroad|date=Autumn 1955|volume=29|issue=4|pages=409–412|doi=10.2307/40094752}}</ref> ''Aut Aut'' was founded in 1951 by Enzo Paci.<ref name=rosi>{{cite book|editor=Rosi Braidotti|title=After Poststructuralism: Transitions and Transformations|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qWl_BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA319|year=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-54681-8|page=319|volume=7|location=London; New York|author1=Judith Butler|author1-link=Judith Butler|author2=Rosi Braidotti|author2-link=Rosi Braidotti|chapter=Out of bounds: philosophy in an age of transition}}</ref><ref name=lcp>{{cite web|title=La Tendenza|url=http://www.dariopassi.com/assets/20120611_dp_tendenza_ang.pdf|publisher=Le Centre Pompidou|access-date=9 January 2015|location=Paris|year=2012}}</ref> Enzo Paci was also the editor-in-chief of the magazine until his death in 1976.<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Lester Embree|editor2=Thomas Nenon|title=Husserl's Ideen|chapter=Ideen I in Italy and Enzo Paci and the Milan School |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2tU_ljObQo8C&pg=PA175|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-007-5213-9 |page=175|location=Dordrecht; Heidelberg; New York; London|author=Rocco Sacconaghi}}</ref> The magazine is based in Milan.<ref name="paci"/><ref name=grac>{{cite book|editor1=Grace Lees-Maffei|editor2=Kjetil Fallan|title=Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdnUAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA91|year=2013|publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=978-1-4725-5842-8|page=91|location=London |author=Raimonda Riccini|chapter=Tomás Maldonado and the Impact of the HfG Ulm in Italy}}</ref>

''Aut Aut'' has a phenomenological and existentialist orientation.<ref name=routgm/><ref name=rosi/> The magazine covers articles on philosophy, literature, sociology, linguistics and also, on architecture and urbanism.<ref name=lcp/>

Gillo Dorfles is among the significant former contributors.<ref name=grac/> Roberto Sanesi started his career as a critic in the magazine in the 1950s.<ref>{{cite news|author=Mel Gooding|title=Roberto Sanesi|access-date=9 January 2015|work=The Guardian|date=13 February 2001 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/feb/13/guardianobituaries.books1}}</ref> Pierre Aldo Rovatti was on the editorial board of the magazine between 1974 and 1976.<ref name=rosi/> During that period it became a significant forum for the discussions of Marxism and poststructuralism.<ref name=rosi/> Afterwards it continued to be published as a critical magazine.<ref name=rosi/>

==See also== * List of magazines in Italy

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==External links== *{{Official website|https://autaut.ilsaggiatore.com/}} {{Authority control}}

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