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{{Short description|Philosophy magazine in Italy}}
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'''''Aut Aut''''' is a critical philosophy and literary magazine published in [Milan](/source/Milan), Italy. Its name is of Latin origin and refers to existential choice and also, to [Søren Kierkegaard](/source/S%C3%B8ren_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Phenomenology_(philosophy)) and [existentialist](/source/existentialist) orientation.<ref name=routgm/><ref name=rosi/> The magazine covers articles on [philosophy](/source/philosophy), [literature](/source/literature), [sociology](/source/sociology), [linguistics](/source/linguistics) and also, on [architecture](/source/architecture) and [urbanism](/source/urbanism).<ref name=lcp/>

[Gillo Dorfles](/source/Gillo_Dorfles) is among the significant former contributors.<ref name=grac/> [Roberto Sanesi](/source/Roberto_Sanesi) started his career as a [critic](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Marxism) and [poststructuralism](/source/poststructuralism).<ref name=rosi/> Afterwards it continued to be published as a critical magazine.<ref name=rosi/>

==See also==
* [List of magazines in Italy](/source/List_of_magazines_in_Italy)

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|https://autaut.ilsaggiatore.com/}}
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Category:Literary magazines published in Italy
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Category:Magazines published in Milan
Category:Philosophy magazines
Category:Visual arts magazines published in Italy
Category:Weekly magazines published in Italy
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