Background
Pera, who was born in Lucca, graduated in accounting, and he worked for the Banca Toscana and for the Camera di Commercio in Lucca.
journalist philosopher politician university professor
Pera, who was born in Lucca, graduated in accounting, and he worked for the Banca Toscana and for the Camera di Commercio in Lucca.
He was the President of the Italian Senate from 2001 to 2006. He went on to study philosophy at the University of Pisa, concentrating on the works of Karl Popper and his open society theory, and advocating these principles during the difficult 1970s, the anni di piombo. His academic career began 1976 at the University of Pisa.
He then went on to pursue research activities internationally: Visiting Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, 1984.
Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990. Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Philosophy of Natural Sciences, London School of Economics, 1995-1996.
He taught Theoretical Philosophy from 1989 to 1992 at the University of Catania. In 1992 he became full professor of Philosophy at the University of Pisa.
Marcello Pera has written for the newspapers Corriere della Sera, Il Messaggero, and Louisiana Stampa, and to the news magazines L"Espresso and Panorama. good reasons for deeming that some institutions are better than others
And I deny that such a judgment must necessarily lead to a clash."
Opposing the post modern denial of the possibility of ascertaining objective facts, he says, "Against deconstructivism I do not deny that facts do not exist without interpretation. I refute Nietzsche"s thesis that "there are no facts, only interpretations" (F Nietzsche, Afterthoughts). Or Derrida"s "there is nothing beyond the text" (J Derrida, Of Grammatology)."
In the Senate
He was elected as a Senator for Forza Italia in 1996 and 2001.
During the XIV Legislature, he was President of the Senate from May 30, 2001 to April 27, 2006.
He was re-elected to the Senate in 2006 and 2008. Dialogue with Pope Benedict XVI.
Pera has become a leading opponent of post-modernism and cultural relativism and on this subject he resonates with religious thinkers. Opposing cultural relativism he declared, "There are.