Massimo Borghesi

Massimo Borghesi (born 1951) is an Italian philosopher.

Biography

Massimo Borghesi graduated from the University of Perugia in 1974.

He saw in the Argentinian Pope a profound and complex thought, based primarily on the concept of coincidentia oppositorum, a theory developed several centuries earlier by the German Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa; this polarity, according to Borghesi, represents the way in which the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church understands the Church itself, by placing it between two extreme poles reconciled by the intervention of divine providence, just as in Hegelian doctrine, the Aufhebung made it possible to overcome the dialectical moments of thesis and antithesis within the historical process and thus justify the rationality of reality, even the horrors of the Shoah and Action T4.

Works translated in English

Massimo Borghesi (2018), The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s Intellectual Journey, translated by Barry Hudock, foreword by Guzmán Carriquiry Lecour, Liturgical Press, Collegeville. Massimo Borghesi (2021), Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs. the Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis, translated by Barry Hudock, Liturgical Press, Collegeville.