Silvio Vietta

Silvio Vietta (born 7 August 1941, in Berlin) is a German scholar and professor emeritus of the University of Hildesheim.

His work has concerned itself principally with German literature, philosophy and European cultural history.

In 1981 he finished his habilitation (German postdoctoral qualification) on Modern Rationality and Literary Criticism at the University of Mannheim.

[1] Vietta has specialized in the macro-theory of the periods of Expressionism, Romanticism and Modernity, and in recent years has become one of the pioneers of 'Europeism' as a field of intercultural European Studies.

Vietta speaks of the "empire of rationality" as a world-governing power that includes different irrational effects.