Lydus Valens

Lydus Valerio Valens is Malernian Politician, Philosopher and Author. He is the author of eleven books, was dean of Philosophy at Volta Univeristy between 1975 and 1995. He is also known for his extensive writing for the magazine Lode alla Permanenza

=Early Life=

Lydus Valerio Valens was born on the 17th of May 1932 in Urbs Rossa. His father Ignazio Valens was Malerno's ambassador to Indonesia. Lydus subsenquently grew up between Jakarta and his current familial home at the Palazzo Fermi. In many of his books and speeches he recalls his souvernirs of Indonesia and his multiple visits to China and Japan. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, and later called himself a secular Catholic, but not an atheist.

Valens' political engagement started in 1950 when he was eighteen and completed his citizenship by writing an essay on the spirit of occidentalism titled l'esponente spirito occidentale that commented the rise of totalitarianism and facism in Europe. In 1951 Lydus Valerio Valens attended preparatory school at the Scuolo Maritimo and he was admitted to the Volta University where he received a Masters in Philosophy.

=Cultural Career=



Between 1954 and 1975 Lydus Valens was an assistant to Professor Manfreddo Gregotti at Volta University and taught philosophy at the Volta University. The Volta University allowed Valens to exchange with students and develop his thoughts that he subsequently published in eleven books. He has organized over fifty workshop in his fourty one year long career at the Volta University.

Lydus' thoughts evolved a lot in his fourty years of teaching and can be divided in three parts.


 * First of all he started by researching Occidentalism as in the effects of the Western cultural logics on other parts of the world and commented the impact of the Cold war on philosophical thought. Notizie dal fronte written in 1961 is a fictious letter exchange between an American and Soviet officer.


 * A second part in which his studies question the relative concept of history and how we represent it. In Ultimo libro di storia Valens explains how the end of the Cold War did not represent an ideological victory; rather, it signaled the disappearance of utopian visions shared between both the political Right and Left. Giving further evidence of his opposition toward Marxist visions of global communism and liberal visions of global civil society.


 * Finally Valens' comments developments in philosophy, aesthetics, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism. Un progetto per Malerno is a description of Malerno as a nation that overcame the logics of Postmodernism.

AIN
Valens put forth a public votation to join the AIN, in which 69,5% of the population voted yes. He organised a few events since it joined earlier in 2018
 * Welcome Ball
 * Bilateral Meeting with Seijuro Akashi