Aut Aut
{{Short description|Philosophy magazine in Italy}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}
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| founder = Enzo Paci
| founded = {{start date and age|1951}}
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| based = Milan
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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.{{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}}
History and profile
Subtitled Rivista di filosofia e di cultura,{{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}} Aut Aut was founded in 1951 by Enzo Paci.{{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}}{{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}} Enzo Paci was also the editor-in-chief of the magazine until his death in 1976.{{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}} The magazine is based in Milan.{{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}}
Aut Aut has a phenomenological and existentialist orientation. The magazine covers articles on philosophy, literature, sociology, linguistics and also, on architecture and urbanism.
Gillo Dorfles is among the significant former contributors. Roberto Sanesi started his career as a critic in the magazine in the 1950s.{{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}} Pierre Aldo Rovatti was on the editorial board of the magazine between 1974 and 1976. During that period it became a significant forum for the discussions of Marxism and poststructuralism. Afterwards it continued to be published as a critical magazine.
See also
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External links
- {{Official website|https://autaut.ilsaggiatore.com/}}
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