Background

Grassi, Ernesto was born on May 2, 1902 in Milano, Italy. Son of Giovanni and Caterina Luce Grassi.

Education

Married; Faculty, University Munchen, Germany, 1948-1983, professor philosophy.

Career

Grassi sought to take up the Heideggerean Destruktion of metaphysics, grounding his philosophical enterprise instead in the tradition of rhetoric. In this tradition, "work and metaphor are the source of human history and society" an approach to thought which must reject the rational, proceeding as it does from "general and necessary premises.".

Achievements

• Ernesto Grassi has been listed as a noteworthy educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Direction Committee Istituto Studi Filosofici e Castelli, University Roma, 1983-1986.

Connections

1 child, Adriana.

Father:

Giovanni Grassi

Mother:

Caterina Luce Grassi

child:

Adriana Grassi