# Jean Soldini

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**Jean Soldini** (born 13 March 1956 in [Lugano](/source/Lugano)) is a Swiss and French philosopher, art historian and poet.

## Biography

He studied in Paris, where he earned the [Habilitation à diriger des recherches](/source/Habilitation_%C3%A0_diriger_des_recherches) (1995), after he graduated with a Ph.D. in philosophy and with a preceding Ph.D. in history of architecture.

## Knowledge and hospitality

His studies are aimed to build a non-authoritarian metaphysics where [aesthetics](/source/Aesthetics) of [hospitality](/source/Hospitality) plays a primary role within knowledge, looking for the possibility of a resistance against the annihilation of the Other. A resistance against the arrogance of any kind of authoritarian thinking with its multiform camouflages, with its never-ending threat against what is existing-with-other. The aesthetics of hospitality should not be confused with the aestheticization of hospitality. It is a philosophical approach concerned with reflecting on sensation through what has its focus on the senses: to donate and receive food, water, a roof for sleeping. Soldini is also author of essays on [Alberto Giacometti](/source/Alberto_Giacometti), exploring the philosophical margins of a creative work that put into effect the vital desire for radical understanding.

## Bibliography

- *Monico. L'opera incisa*, preface by Vittorio Fagone, [Bellinzona](/source/Bellinzona), Casagrande,1987.
- *La Pinacoteca Züst*, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1988.
- *Affreschi tardoromanici nel Battistero di Riva San Vitale*, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1990.
- *[Alberto Giacometti](/source/Alberto_Giacometti). Le colossal, la mère, le “sacré”*, [Lausanne](/source/Lausanne), [L'Age d'Homme](/source/L'Age_d'Homme), 1993.
- *Saggio sulla discesa della bellezza. Linee per un'estetica*, [Milan](/source/Milan), Jaca Book, 1995.
- *Alberto Giacometti. La somiglianza introvabile*, preface by [René Schérer](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Sch%C3%A9rer), Milan, Jaca Book, 1998.
- *Cose che sporgono*, “alla chiara fonte”, Lugano, 2004 (Book of the year 2005 of [Swiss Schiller Foundation](/source/Swiss_Schiller_Foundation)).
- *Il riposo dell'amato. Una metafisica per l'uomo nell'epoca del mercato come fine unico*, Milan, Jaca Book, 2005.
- "Storia, memoria, arte sacra tra passato e futuro", *Sacre Arti*, edited by F. Gualdoni, texts by T. [Tzara](/source/Tzara), S. Yanagi, T. [Burckhardt](/source/Burckhardt), 2008.
- “Resistance and Beauty of the Other”, *FMR White Edition*, Milan, 2008, n.4, pp. 96–109.
- *Bivacchi*, Ulivo, Balerna 2009.
- *Resistenza e ospitalità*, Milan, Jaca Book, 2010.
- *A testa in giù. Per un'ontologia della vita in comune*, preface by René Schérer, Milan, Mimesis, 2012.
- *Tenere il passo*, preface by [Jean-Charles Vegliante](/source/Jean-Charles_Vegliante), Edizioni Lietocolle, Faloppio (Como) 2014.
- *[Alberto Giacometti](/source/Alberto_Giacometti). L'espace et la force*, Éditions Kimé, Paris, 2016.
- *Graphics on the Border between Art and Thought / Alberto Giacometti. Grafica al confine fra arte e pensiero*, edited by Jean Soldini and Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, Skira, Milan 2020.
- *Schiave e minatori. Versi per una scena*, Museo Vela, Ligornetto 2021.
- *Il cuore dell'essere, la grazia delle attrazioni. Tentativi di postantropocentrismo*, preface by Roberto Diodato, Milan, Mimesis, 2022.
- *Quaderno a righe. Poesie 2014-2022*, preface by Angelo Maugeri, Forlimpopoli, L'Arcolaio, 2023.

## References

- Sylvain Latendresse, “Giacometti: à l’ombre du marcheur”, *Espace Sculpture*, Montréal, n° 46, 1998.
- Terry Kirk, *The Architecture of Modern Italy. The Challenge of Tradition 1750-1900*, [Princeton Architectural Press](/source/Princeton_Architectural_Press), New York 2005.
- Giovanni Trabucco, “Arte e Teologia”, *Orientamenti bibliografici*, edited by the Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia settentrionale, Milano 2006, 28.
- Maria Dolores Pesce, “Della trascendenza orizzontale”, *dramma.it*, 2006.
- Isabelle Roche, “La Revue Blanche FMR numéro 4”, *Le Litteraire.com*, 3 dicembre 2008.
- Christine Bouche, *Alberto Giacometti. La femme, le sphinx et l'effroi*, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004.
- James Madge and Andrew Peckham, *Narrating Architecture. A Retrospective Anthology*, London, [Routledge](/source/Routledge), 2006, p. 35.
- Julie F. Codell, *The Political Economy of Art. Making the Nation of Culture*, [Fairleigh Dickinson University Press](/source/Fairleigh_Dickinson_University_Press), Madison, New Jersey 2008.
- Pascal Gabellone, *La blessure du réel. La poésie et l'art à l'épreuve du monde*, Parigi, L'Harmattan, 2011.
- Marco Martinelli, interview by, “«Ma noi siamo stranieri». Un incontro a Lido Adriano su ospitalità e libertà”, *[Cenobio](/source/Cenobio)*, 2012, 1.
- Modesta di Paola, *Ética de la hospitalidad lingüística*, in "Interartive", 47, December 2012 [\[1\]](http://interartive.org/2012/12/etica-hospitalidad-linguistica/)
- [Renato Miracco](/source/Renato_Miracco), “Alberto Giacometti: The Core of Life”, *i-Italy*, The multimedia network for all things Italian in America, June 28, 2018.
- Modesta di Paola,*Cosmopolitics and Biopolitics. Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Art*, Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 2018.

## External links

- [Viceversa Littérature](http://www.viceversalitterature.ch/author/6044)
- [Alberto Giacometti: a single-minded passion](http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/archive/Alberto_Giacometti:_a_single-minded_passion.html?cid=2300986)
- [L'avventura della realtà](http://www.swissinfo.ch/ita/index.html?cid=2288334)[dead link]
- [Jean Soldini, Frontiera-e vita in comune](https://nuovaprovincia.blogspot.com/2012/02/jean-soldini-frontiera-e-vita-in-comune.html)

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