Giulio Cogni
| Giulio Cogni | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 10, 1908 Siena, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. |
| Occupation | writer, racial theorist, music composer, music critic |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Period | Italian Fascism |
Giulio Cogni (10 January 1908 – 15 November 1983) was an Italian writer, music critic and composer.
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Biography
Giulio Cogni was born in Siena. A teacher first at a middle school in Martina Franca, then a professor of philosophy at a high school in Perugia and at the Italo-Germanic Institute of Culture in Hamburg, he distinguished himself at the age of twenty-five with the publication of his Essay on Love as a New Principle of Immortality.
The book was bitterly criticized by, among others, Guido De Ruggiero and Guido Calogero, who also polemicized with his then-teacher Giovanni Gentile (to whom the book is dedicated), who had published some of Cogni's Hegelian writings in the Giornale critico della filosofia italiana; the author countered with a Defense of the Essay on Love.
The book earned Cogni the appreciation of Telesio Interlandi, who introduced the author to Mussolini and hosted his writings on the Quadrivio and the Il Tevere.[1] He also contributed to many other periodicals of the time, such as Il Mattino, Il Messaggero, La Sicilia and Gazzetta del Sud. In 1931, he translated Mela Hartwig scandalous novel Das Weib ist ein Nichts ("Woman is a Nothing").[lower-alpha 1]
In the following years Cogni published two volumes, Racism and The Valor of the Italian Lineage, in which he attempted to combine Gentile's actualism with the biological conceptions of Hans F.K. Günther. In the book Racial Ideologies by the German political scientist and historian Patrik von zur Mühlen, Cognis's thought is located as follows: "Cogni attempted a synthesis of Giuseppe Sergi's Mediterranean and Günther's Nordic racial thought: he emphasized the kinship of the tall blond and the dark long-skinned, who were equal representatives of the white race and equally the originators of the highest cultural achievements in world history."[4] Criticized by the Catholic Church (Racism was put on the Index) and by the fascists themselves, abandoned by Mussolini, first defended and then abandoned even by Interlandi, Cogni oriented his studies to psychology and music.
In the postwar period, Giulio Cogni taught psychology and musical esthetics at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory.
Cogni was a member of the Italian Parapsychological Society. He was very interested in telepathy, clairvoyance, mediums and theories on life after death. In 1946, he translated the book Extrasensory Perception, by German physician and psychical researcher Gustav Pagenstecher (1855–1942).[5]
See also
Works
- Studi mistici (1930)
- Saggio sull'Amore come nuovo principio d'immortalità (1932)
- Difesa del saggio su l'amore (1933)
- "Il mito del sangue nordico e Rosenberg," Nuovi studi, No. 4/5 (1934)
- Il razzismo (1937)
- Lo spirito assoluto: saggio critico sul problema teologico (1937)
- I valori della stirpe italiana (1937)
- "Preliminari sul cinema in difesa della razza," Bianco e nero, Anno II, No. 1 (1938)
- "L'anima razziale d'Italia e il suo cinema," Bianco e nero, Anno III, No. 3 (1939)
- Il Segreto del Genio (1941)
- Le forze segrete della musica (1942)
- Agape Sacra (1948)
- Giovanni Gentile: la vita e il pensiero, Vol. 5 (1951; with Rosario Assunto & Dario Faucci)
- Agape Eterna (1952)
- Che cosa è la musica? Elementi di psicologia della musica (1956)
- Wagner e Beethoven (1960)
- "L'interiorita sacra dell'arte." In: Atti del 4. Congresso internazionale di estetica (1960)
- Alberto Viviani: poeta, narratore, saggista (1961)
- Universo fagico: testi e saggi (1966)
- Io sono te: sesso e oblazione (1970)
- Bhagavadgita, il canto del beato (1980)
- Ahamannam: io sono cibo: essere universale di tutte le forme: dalla Taittirya Upanishad all'eucaristia (1982)
- Canti vedantici (1982)
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ He also translated William McDougall's Character and the Conduct of Life (1927)[2] and Ewald Volhard's ethnological study on Cannibalism (1939)[3] into Italian, among other works, in particular the ones of Wagner.
Citations
- ↑ Cassata, Francesco (2008). "La difesa della razza": politica, ideologia e immagine del razzismo fascista. Torino: Einaudi.
- ↑ McDougall, William (1949). Il carattere e la condotta della vita. Firenze: G. C. Sansoni.
- ↑ Volhard, Ewald (1940). Cannibalismo. Torino: Einaldi.
- ↑ Mühlen, Patrik von zur (1979). Rassenideologien: Geschichte und Hintergründe. Berlin, Bonn-Bad Godesberg: Dietz, p. 223.
- ↑ Pagenstecher, Gustav (1946). Percezioni extra-sensoriali. Verona: Europa.
References
- Gillette, Aaron (2002). Racial Theories in Fascist Italy. London/New York: Routledge.
- Viviani, Alberto (1961). Il teatro di Giulio Cogni. Firenze: Il fauno.
