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Redazione: Federica Buongiorno, Marco Carassai, Andrea Pinazzi, Libera Pisano.
Aut. Trib. di Roma n° 387/2011 del 12/12/2011
ISSN: 2036 6558 | Pubblicata da Edizioni di Storia e Letteraturaedit - Nicla VASSALLO, Francesco Saverio TRINCIA, Wolfgang RÖTHER, Paola RODANO, Lorena PRETA, Fabio POLIDORI, Maria Teresa PANSERA, Marcello MUSTÉ, Thomas MACHO, Roberto ESPOSITO, Mario Santiago de CARVALHO, Paolo D'ANGELO, Antonello D'ANGELO, Nunzio ALLOCCAedit
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Jean Baudrillard’s path of thought runs through several phenomena of the modern world (war, information, communication and media, the crisis of Marxism, terrorism, photography, architecture, cloning etc.) occupying a unique position in... more
Jean Baudrillard’s path of thought runs through several phenomena of the modern world (war, information, communication and media, the crisis of Marxism, terrorism, photography, architecture, cloning etc.) occupying a unique position in contemporary philosophical landscape. Most of his keywords, such as “hyper-reality” or “simulacrum” continue to proliferate in latest philosophical-cultural production. These terms have come to constitute a useful set of concept to grasp the contemporary culture in its complex structure.
Ten years after the death of Baudrillard, Lo Sguardo devotes to his thought a special issue, expected to be published in March 2017.
The editorial team invites scholars in the field of Baudrillard’s, media and philosophical studies tosend their proposals of editing. Proposals can be submitted by a single editor or a by group of up to three editors.
Ten years after the death of Baudrillard, Lo Sguardo devotes to his thought a special issue, expected to be published in March 2017.
The editorial team invites scholars in the field of Baudrillard’s, media and philosophical studies tosend their proposals of editing. Proposals can be submitted by a single editor or a by group of up to three editors.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Media Studies, Continental Philosophy, Contemporary French Philosophy, Gilles Deleuze, and 10 morePierre Klossowski, Postmodernism, Michel Foucault, Hyperreality, Baudrillard, Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Contemporary Philosophy, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, and History of Philosophy
La riflessione di Jean Baudrillard attraversa gran parte dei fenomeni del mondo attuale (la guerra, l’informazione, la comunicazione e i media, la crisi del marxismo, il terrorismo, la fotografia, l’architettura, la clonazione etc.),... more
La riflessione di Jean Baudrillard attraversa gran parte dei fenomeni del mondo attuale (la guerra, l’informazione, la comunicazione e i media, la crisi del marxismo, il terrorismo, la fotografia, l’architettura, la clonazione etc.), occupando una posizione unica nel panorama filosofico contemporaneo.
Gran parte delle parole chiave del suo pensiero, come “iperrealtà” o “simulacro” continuano a proliferare nella produzione filosofico-culturale più recente; questi termini hanno infatti saputo fornire un valido
apparato concettuale per cogliere la cultura contemporanea nella sua complessa articolazione.
A 10 anni dalla morte di Baudrillard, Lo Sguardo intende dedicare al suo pensiero un numero monografico, previsto per marzo 2017.
A questo proposito la redazione invita studiosi attivi nel campo degli studi su Baudrillard e affini ainviare le loro proposte di curatela del numero. La proposta può essere sottoposta da un singolo curatore o da un gruppo di massimo tre curatori.
Gran parte delle parole chiave del suo pensiero, come “iperrealtà” o “simulacro” continuano a proliferare nella produzione filosofico-culturale più recente; questi termini hanno infatti saputo fornire un valido
apparato concettuale per cogliere la cultura contemporanea nella sua complessa articolazione.
A 10 anni dalla morte di Baudrillard, Lo Sguardo intende dedicare al suo pensiero un numero monografico, previsto per marzo 2017.
A questo proposito la redazione invita studiosi attivi nel campo degli studi su Baudrillard e affini ainviare le loro proposte di curatela del numero. La proposta può essere sottoposta da un singolo curatore o da un gruppo di massimo tre curatori.
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Is it possible, and through which philosophical categories, a thought of the catastrophe, natural, or linguistic, or political or aesthetic? And in what consists — on the contrary — a catastrophe of the thought? The twentieth issue of... more
Is it possible, and through which philosophical categories, a thought of the catastrophe, natural, or linguistic, or political or aesthetic? And in what consists — on the contrary — a catastrophe of the thought?
The twentieth issue of Lo Sguardo (February 2016) addresses these questions, assuming the catastrophe from its original meaning, the dramaturgical one of the greek katastrophé, but identify it in its hermeneutic function and as a category of thought. Catastrophe, thus, as overturning that subverts a system, generating the end of a narrative, of a story, of a structure, but also as an upturning that retains and establishes the possibility of a new beginning. Then, reflecting on the disaster means to approximate the philosophical discourse to the precipice on which rationality builds its unstable foundation, and at the same time recognize in the overturning the very place from which the gaze upon the world starts.
The twentieth issue of Lo Sguardo (February 2016) addresses these questions, assuming the catastrophe from its original meaning, the dramaturgical one of the greek katastrophé, but identify it in its hermeneutic function and as a category of thought. Catastrophe, thus, as overturning that subverts a system, generating the end of a narrative, of a story, of a structure, but also as an upturning that retains and establishes the possibility of a new beginning. Then, reflecting on the disaster means to approximate the philosophical discourse to the precipice on which rationality builds its unstable foundation, and at the same time recognize in the overturning the very place from which the gaze upon the world starts.
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The soul, (if) possessed by animals, has been the issue of a lively gnoseological and semantic debate during the Renaissance. While in the Middle Age the attention was rather focused on the opposition between man and beast (the word... more
The soul, (if) possessed by animals, has been the issue of a lively gnoseological and semantic debate during the Renaissance. While in the Middle Age the attention was rather focused on the opposition between man and beast (the word “animal” is not commonly used), the status of the animal as a being provided with his own ontological and naturalistic domain become, during the Reinassance, the center of a strong debate, also related to ethical and anthropoloogical questions, inaugurating a new topic that will follow the development of the classical metaphysics until the the German idealistic thought of the Nineteenth Century. The present issue aims at investigating the theoretical consequences of the traits given to the animal by the philosophical inquiry from the 13th to the 19th Century.
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La questionne relativa all'anima degli animali è stata oggetto di una vasta indagine gnoseologica e semantica durante il Rinascimento. Se nel Medioevo l’attenzione risulta piuttosto focalizzata sull’opposizione tra uomo e bestia (la... more
La questionne relativa all'anima degli animali è stata oggetto di una vasta indagine gnoseologica e semantica durante il Rinascimento. Se nel Medioevo l’attenzione risulta piuttosto focalizzata sull’opposizione tra uomo e bestia (la parola “animale” non è, appunto, comunemente utilizzata), lo status dell’animale come creatura dotata di un suo proprio dominio ontologico e naturalistico diviene, fin dal Rinascimento, oggetto di un intenso dibattito, anche in relazione a etica e antropologia, inaugurando una discussione che accompagnerà la parabola della metafisica classica fino all’idealismo postkantiano. Il presente numero de Lo Sguardo intende indagare le conseguenze teoretiche e antropologiche delle caratteristiche attribuite agli animali dalla ricerca filosofica, nei secoli compresi tra il XIII e il XIX.
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The aim of the paper is to suggest a new ethical and individual form of political resistance. After a review of DarioGentili’s book "Italian theory. Dall’operaismo alla biopolitica", the essay retraces in its first part the political... more
The aim of the paper is to suggest a new ethical and individual form of political resistance. After a review of DarioGentili’s book "Italian theory. Dall’operaismo alla biopolitica", the essay retraces in its first part the political genealogy of the italian philosophical trend called “pensiero debole”, comparing it besides with the political and philosophical season of post-operaism. This comparison focuses in particular on the relation between the different positions of Pier Aldo Rovatti and Antonio Negri during the Seventies and the early Eighties. The second part of the essay expands some of the main philosophical themes of Rovatti’s “pensiero debole”, concentrating especially on the political aspects of Jacques Lacan’s and Michel Foucault’s thought. The philosophical question of the subject, according to the thought of the named authors, emerges at the end of the paper in its very political dimension.
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In the original Italian philosophical adventure of the last fifty years, the figure of Carlo Sini is certainly one of the most profound and fascinating. His education, begun following the Milanese teaching of Giovanni Emanuele Barié and... more
In the original Italian philosophical adventure of the last fifty years, the figure of Carlo Sini is certainly one of the most profound and fascinating. His education, begun following the Milanese teaching of Giovanni Emanuele Barié and then of Enzo Paci, therefore between Kant, Hegel and Husserl, opens furthermore to various influences, from American Pragmatism to Nietzsche’s Genealogy, up to contemporary Hermeneutics. Starting from that, Sini has developed the perspective of the thought of the practices that, in the light of the difference between event and meaning, contemplated in an ethical sense, leads to a result that doesn’t exclude the truth, in a relativistic direction. This instead opens up to difference and to the relationship of the future of the «errant planet» (the earth), accepting its Copernican fate. This perspective, provided by great theoretical sharpness, identifies Sini as one of the most interesting contemporary philosophers, and not only at a national level.
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In this paper we illustrate some of the theoretical fundamentals of the route nodes speculative Massimo Cacciari. How can you define the absolute singularity of the thing; what implies that the mere possibility is that from which it... more
In this paper we illustrate some of the theoretical fundamentals of the route nodes speculative Massimo Cacciari. How can you define the absolute singularity of the thing; what implies that the mere possibility is that from which it comes; what relation is given between the One and the negative of the world; what are the limits of logos: these and other issues are addressed from the last work of Cacciari, Maze philosophical, and in dialogue with thinkers like Heidegger and Severino, of which we show the similarities and differences with the theses of the Venetian philosopher.
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The aim of this paper is to illustrate the difference between Emanuele Severino’s philosophical discourse and that of Massimo Cacciari by analyzing those fundamental concepts – such as “Destino”, “Elenchos” and the Principle of... more
The aim of this paper is to illustrate the difference between Emanuele Severino’s philosophical discourse and that of Massimo Cacciari by analyzing those fundamental concepts – such as “Destino”, “Elenchos” and the Principle of non-contradiction (PDNC) – which are the core of their philosophies. We also propose this essay as an introduction to the complex interview with Emanuele Severino, also published on this issue, since it investigate the same range of philosophical themes.
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In this paper, I discuss some of Esposito’s reflections on biopolitics in order to contribute to a better understanding of this matter. In my view, Roberto Esposito’s theorization on this subject cannot be fully understood without taking... more
In this paper, I discuss some of Esposito’s reflections on biopolitics in order to contribute to a better understanding of this matter. In my view, Roberto Esposito’s theorization on this subject cannot be fully understood without taking into consideration his view on modern political philosophy, the need to deconstruct the hegemonic immunitary paradigm that negates life in order to protect it, and the persistence of theologico-political apparatuses that separate life in zones of different value. Therefore, Esposito will deconstruct political philosophy and develop a genealogical research on modern biopolitics that has immunization as hermeneutic key. Furthermore, theologico-political dispositives like personhood imply a form of violent immunization. Now, if life has to be immunized in order to be preserved, it is also on this ground that a new philosophy of the common can emerge. In this sense, Esposito elaborates a philosophy of the third person or the Impersonal, both within Life and Thought, as a way out from the Immunitarian stance that sacrifices Life to its own preservation. The reach of this proposal will be discussed in the last part of the paper.
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The Italian thought is a philosophy of impure reason, which takes into account the conditions, imperfections and possibilities of the world. The core of his tradition consists in a civil vocation, choosing as objects of investigation... more
The Italian thought is a philosophy of impure reason, which takes into account the conditions, imperfections and possibilities of the world. The core of his tradition consists in a civil vocation, choosing as objects of investigation life, history and politics, in search of “the effective truth of things” (Machiavelli). The audience of the italian philosophers are not the specialists, but all their compatriots, as well as everyone else. That also because they are often exiles, from Giordano Bruno to Antonio Gramsci, with a cosmopolitian vocation. Thus the question of the “common”, thematized by the contemporary italian philosophy, reverse itself in that of the “goodbye to community”, and to the irreversible past
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What is Topology? The interview revolves around this concept, which first of all - according to Vitiello - points to a practice of thinking before than an hermeneutic theory. “Which ethos belongs to topology?” is the question which... more
What is Topology? The interview revolves around this concept, which first of all - according to Vitiello - points to a practice of thinking before than an hermeneutic theory. “Which ethos belongs to topology?” is the question which Vitiello raises. This point concerns the status of this prospective: which is the responsibility of philosophy if not to focus on the relationship of philosophical, moral and political thought with its own limit?
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In this interview we asked Professor Severino, one of the major contemporary Italian philosophers, to investigate aspects of his research regarding the relationship between ontology and philosophy of language. From his theoretical point... more
In this interview we asked Professor Severino, one of the major contemporary Italian philosophers, to investigate aspects of his research regarding the relationship between ontology and philosophy of language. From his theoretical point of view we have investigated some of the central themes of the philosophical speculation suche as the nature of will, the structure of identity and the matter of what is the truths.
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The aim of this interview is to analyze, on the one side, the relationship between Franco Berardi’s thought and the most significant moments in his intellectual profile, with its permanent exchange with the political, intellectual and... more
The aim of this interview is to analyze, on the one side, the relationship between Franco Berardi’s thought and the most significant moments in his intellectual profile, with its permanent exchange with the political, intellectual and artistic milieu. On the other side, it is taken into account the relationship between Berardi’s thought and that group of theories and critical reflections that are currently known as Italian Theory.
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The conversation focuses on the social and political role of the philosopher nowadays. Pier Aldo Rovatti discusses about the growing philosophical movement called “Italian Theory” while revisiting his own recent intellectual path. The... more
The conversation focuses on the social and political role of the philosopher nowadays. Pier Aldo Rovatti discusses about the growing philosophical movement called “Italian Theory” while revisiting his own recent intellectual path. The italian philosopher retraces the cultural experience of the “pensiero debole”, whereof he has been one of the two promoters, and underlines the intellectual and political fight, against all the so-called universal truths (and ideological violences), inspired by this philosophical trend at the beginning of the Eighties. The interview ends with a discussion about the dawning perspectives of the political-philosophical action in the post-modern age.
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Taking the cue from a reading of Agamben’s essay Nudity (2009), the text analyses the most famous notion of his vocabulary, «bare» or «naked life», and attempts to understand the meaning of life’s ‘nudity’ within the whole project begun... more
Taking the cue from a reading of Agamben’s essay Nudity (2009), the text analyses the most famous notion of his vocabulary, «bare» or «naked life», and attempts to understand the meaning of life’s ‘nudity’ within the whole project begun with Homo Sacer. By attempting to disclose and deactivate the theological signature that determines, in our culture, the concept of ‘nudity’ in exclusively privative terms, Nudity provides both an instrument for the analysis of life’s nudity in the sovereign ban, and the model for a philosophical practice structured on a ‘denudation’ of the signatures and apparatuses which determine and imprison our life
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The legendary encounter at Davos (1929) between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger may be recognized as the crucial point in the "afterlife" of Dilthey's philosophy. Starting from the emblematic confrontation of phenomenology and... more
The legendary encounter at Davos (1929) between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger may be recognized as the crucial point in the "afterlife" of Dilthey's philosophy. Starting from the emblematic confrontation of phenomenology and Neo-Kantianism as to the "essence of philosophy", the present study first enquires after some surprising aspects of a "critique of historical reason" on either side, before moving on to tensions and dissonances. Behind the surface matter of proper Kant-exegesis there is the deeper issue of myth and language, yielding eventually a short meditation upon the Diltheyan concept of "structure" in the light of 20th-century structuralism.
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Despite the usual genealogies of hermeneutics, Heidegger’s appropriation of Dilthey’s philosophy only deals marginally with hermeneutics. Nevertheless, this paper aims to shed light on elements in favour of an implicit continuity in... more
Despite the usual genealogies of hermeneutics, Heidegger’s appropriation of Dilthey’s philosophy only deals marginally with hermeneutics. Nevertheless, this paper aims to shed light on elements in favour of an implicit continuity in hermeneutics from Dilthey to Heidegger. Against the general background of the conception of life as self-interpretation, which allows the ontological radicalisation of Dilthey’s hermeneutical concepts, some diltheyan historical and aesthetical paradigms prove to be at work in Heidegger’s first phenomenology of life. “Destruction” itself, the very core of Heidegger’s concept of hermeneutics, can be partially traced back to diltheyan sources.
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This contribution deals with the controversy between the phsychologist Herman Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) and Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) on the status of psychology at the time when it began to be inspired by the model of naturalsciences.... more
This contribution deals with the controversy between the phsychologist Herman Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) and Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) on the status of psychology at the time when it began to be inspired by the model of naturalsciences. This controversy, which lies within the broader context of the debate that took place in Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century on the status of the natural and human sciences, shows many points in common with the current debate on neo- reductionism. The current “neuromania”, i.e. the tendency to reduce the productions of mind to neurological processes of the brain, proposes arguments that have their roots in the never-resolved debate in the nineteenth century. The author wants to highlight that the misconceptions and misunderstandings that characterized the dialogue between scientists and philosophers at the time of Dilthey are reflected in the current comparison between neo-reductionists and supporters of the irreducibility of the spiritual to the natural.
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In his « Ideas for a Descriptive and Analytic Psychology » Dilthey thinks of the psychic nexus or Lebenszusammenhang as a purposive nexus, and I shall first investigate the meaning of this notion; but as psychic nexus refers in this essay... more
In his « Ideas for a Descriptive and Analytic Psychology » Dilthey thinks of the psychic nexus or Lebenszusammenhang as a purposive nexus, and I shall first investigate the meaning of this notion; but as psychic nexus refers in this essay not only to human but more widely to animal psyche, how should we understand this purposiveness? In his last work Dilthey uses another word than purposiveness or Zweckmäßigkeit: the word Zielstrebigkeit which was borrowed from the biologist Karl von Baer und which means a strive without any consciousness. The third and last part of this paper invites to consider a key concept of Jakob von Uexküll, which gives perhaps the possibility to go beyond the “nexus”: the concept of Komposition.
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Is it possible to build a system in philosophy? According to Dilthey, the historical « world view » (Weltanschauung) is a way to understand the human knowledge, including philosophy. This way provides a freedom to think by destroying... more
Is it possible to build a system in philosophy? According to Dilthey, the historical « world view » (Weltanschauung) is a way to understand the human knowledge, including philosophy. This way provides a freedom to think by destroying every a priori. As a result of this historical manner to do philosophy, it seems, though, to be impossible to find any unhistorical ground. Should philosophy renounce once and for all to search any truth about the world ? Should we not be afraid ? Reading Dilthey with Anders (1902-1992), who studied with Husserl and Heidegger, could help us to solve the problem: the philosophy should be « grounded » on contingency, circumstances and insignificance – and by this way, it becomes a « prognostic hermeneutic » – otherwise we are condemned to describe some old systems, which are perpetually falling into disuse.
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For Dilthey, as for many intellectuals of his time, it is no more possible, after the kantian criticism in ontology and the growth of the historical consciousness, to give an absolute credence to the validity of synthetic metaphysical... more
For Dilthey, as for many intellectuals of his time, it is no more possible, after the kantian criticism in ontology and the growth of the historical consciousness, to give an absolute credence to the validity of synthetic metaphysical systems neither to the large cosmological, psychological and theological tales. But Dilthey is not a “post- metaphysical” philosopher. The aim of this paper is to show, by contrast and comparison with Franz Rosenzweig and Karl Löwith’s writings, that for Dilthey, the tragic element in the structure of the human life can be thought under two main aspects. The first is an epistemological one, concerning the historical and geographical limitation of the points of view, the transcendentals not only in the intellectualist Kantian meaning but on top of that in the vitalist Diltheyian meaning. It can be partially treated with the descriptive method and the narrative form of the sciences of mind. The second aspect is an existential one, inherent to the ambivalence, the contingency and the finitude of the individual life. Remedies to this last are the hermeneutical methods of the others individual lives.
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This essay considers Dilthey’s Weltanschauungslehre as a problematic result of his investigations on the constitution of the human sciences. The author highlights Dilthey’s main arguments in favor of the specificity of history and... more
This essay considers Dilthey’s Weltanschauungslehre as a problematic result of his investigations on the constitution of the human sciences. The author highlights Dilthey’s main arguments in favor of the specificity of history and humanities. Moreover, the paper’s shows Dilthey’s attempt to find a balance between the instances of the individual and the need of universalisation that characterizes human knowledge.
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In this paper, we start from the definition of understanding as Zusammenhang. We show that it is accomplished, based on the psychic structure, in the movement towards totalizing understanding through various levels, from our first reports... more
In this paper, we start from the definition of understanding as Zusammenhang. We show that it is accomplished, based on the psychic structure, in the movement towards totalizing understanding through various levels, from our first reports to the world until the worldviews that reflects the philosophy of philosophy. The analysis of the structure of these conceptions which stabilize our relation to the world is not without difficulties, and the theory of worldviews is presented as an often ambivalent theory of understanding and interpretation : it actually reflects the contradiction between the need for stability, part of metaphysical impetus, and radical historicization, which gives an "insoluble contradiction", the "contradiction between the claim of universal validity for each worldview and for life, and the historical consciousness.
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The paper addresses the transcendence of political organizations adopting an anthropological perspectives. In contexts in which power is grounded in society the latter tends to be formed by the synergy of multiple and hybrid identities.... more
The paper addresses the transcendence of political organizations adopting an anthropological perspectives. In contexts in which power is grounded in society the latter tends to be formed by the synergy of multiple and hybrid identities. When power becomes concentrated in institutional government, and thus becomes transcendental, identity is progressively codified and standardized. I argue that representative democracy has failed to resolve the transcendental dimension of government, as evidence from contemporary Italy shows. Emerging social movements, on the contrary, tend to root power in a polyphonic and heterogeneous social body.
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The paper deals with the analysis of the theme of power in Giorgio Agamben’s philosophy. In The Kingdom and the Glory Agamben interprets Glory as the fundamental apparatus of power languages, an empty center around which the western... more
The paper deals with the analysis of the theme of power in Giorgio Agamben’s philosophy. In The Kingdom and the Glory Agamben interprets Glory as the fundamental apparatus of power languages, an empty center around which the western governamental machine works. The Glory is the transcendental of power, the device by which auctoritas and potestas are articulated. Therefore, Glory is the foundation of modern consensual democracies. In this sense mass-media are modern devices of power glorification. To deconstruct western governamental machine is necessary to show the role of Glory as a practice of legitimateness of power.
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The concept of popular sovereignty establishes the ground for the study of Costitutional Right: concerning the in-force power, has it to be undertood starting from an inner perspective or from an outer one? By discerning the writing of a... more
The concept of popular sovereignty establishes the ground for the study of Costitutional Right: concerning the in-force power, has it to be undertood starting from an inner perspective or from an outer one? By discerning the writing of a law-text from its reading, this article moves from the ermeneutical understanding of the constitution that will affect the typing of the sovereign identity. The text aims to locate the core moment of the transition from an idea of early sovereign to the realization of an original one.
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Since the XIXth century Industrial Revolution, modern technology has become a power which not only transforms our world but produces it. In other words, technology is now a political power. It is becoming a factor of strangeness whereas... more
Since the XIXth century Industrial Revolution, modern technology has become a power which not only transforms our world but produces it. In other words, technology is now a political power. It is becoming a factor of strangeness whereas human beings are more and more strangers in this world, more and more "obsolescent" (Günther Anders). In this paper, we will try to define the main characteristics of this technological strangeness process which erases the imprint of the humankind on the world.
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In contrast with the Aristotelian tradition, Machiavelli holds that the purpose of «customs» and «institutions» is not to make it possible for the internal end of human beings, that is life according to reason and virtue, to be fulfilled.... more
In contrast with the Aristotelian tradition, Machiavelli holds that the purpose of «customs» and «institutions» is not to make it possible for the internal end of human beings, that is life according to reason and virtue, to be fulfilled. It is instead possible, through crafty strategies aiming at taking advantage of the inevitably selfish mainsprings of individuals, to «correct» the results of the «insatiable human appetites». Politics then becomes the art of «correcting» men in order to adapt them to an ideal entailing an apparent violence to their identity.
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In this paper I will analyze contemporary image technologies starting from the phenomenological theory of image. Husserl’s conceptual system does not fit with contemporary images, because of their peculiar technical nature. The... more
In this paper I will analyze contemporary image technologies starting from the phenomenological theory of image. Husserl’s conceptual system does not fit with contemporary images, because of their peculiar technical nature. The phenomenological theory of image is based on an essential assumption: perception is an intuitive act, therefore in perceptual experience there is no mediation; on the contrary image consciousness (that is the experience of perceiving something through an image) always implies a mediation. This essential phenomenological distinction is precisely what contemporary images deny. Moreover technical features of contemporary images produce not only theoretical but also political concerns. Images have power; but the power of contemporary image technologies is deeply ambiguous.
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Famously, Foucault claimed that Bentham's Panopticon is the model of modern disciplinary society. Foucault put Bentham's project of a new penitentiary at the centre stage of his exposition of the birth of biopolitics. This article focuses... more
Famously, Foucault claimed that Bentham's Panopticon is the model of modern disciplinary society. Foucault put Bentham's project of a new penitentiary at the centre stage of his exposition of the birth of biopolitics. This article focuses on Foucault's conception of power as a ubiquitous relation , where governors and subjects are fading, and resistance is the counterpart of power. It is claimed that going beyond the Panopticon, a similar conception of power could be found in Bentham's writings on law and constitutional theory. Accordingly, Foucault's conception of power can be found in, and reconciled with, a different framework, at the service of a liberal-democratic conception of State and society.
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Can we compare Robespierre’s and Machiavelli’s thinking ? Robespierre himself spoke in various occasions of Machiavelli as a model for tyranny, despotism, evil in ethics and politics - just the contrary for the conduct he praised during... more
Can we compare Robespierre’s and Machiavelli’s thinking ? Robespierre himself spoke in various occasions of Machiavelli as a model for tyranny, despotism, evil in ethics and politics - just the contrary for the conduct he praised during the French Revolution. Nevertheless, some aspects of the Robespierrist discourse (especially during the spring of 1794) can evoke Machiavelli : the “return to basic principles” is a necessity for the collective salvation, the worship of “l’Etre Suprême” is essential in the life of a Republic ( a”vertuous republic” according to Maximilien Robespierre). Concerning this point, civic religion, Robespierre knew very well the page by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the quotation made by him of Machiavelli’s Discorsi. So, it can be fruitful to give an interpretation of the famous cult celebrating the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul, in the French context as much as in the Machiavellian perspective.
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Caterina Sforza’s fame as ruler of the small territories of Imola and Forlì in the late fifteenth-century has persisted over the centuries. Yet her fame has shifted and changed with the Niccolò Machiavelli’s comments on her life greatly... more
Caterina Sforza’s fame as ruler of the small territories of Imola and Forlì in the late fifteenth-century has persisted over the centuries. Yet her fame has shifted and changed with the Niccolò Machiavelli’s comments on her life greatly affected her reputation. Her powerful Medici descendants further tempered her legend without diminishing her fame. The various levels of archival traces for Sforza’s life and legend present a remarkable example of how accretions of information and interpretation become history.
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The late thought of Jacques Derrida identifies a number of doubles: law and justice, absolute and conditional hospitality, democracy and democracy-to-come. Justice, for example, is the larger principle to which the law aspires, but... more
The late thought of Jacques Derrida identifies a number of doubles: law and justice, absolute and conditional hospitality, democracy and democracy-to-come. Justice, for example, is the larger principle to which the law aspires, but justice will always remain in excess of law. Justice both makes law possible by providing it with its meaning, but it also makes law impossible by setting up an aspiration that the law can never meet. On the one hand, the law comes into being only in response to justice, but the only existence justice has is by way of law. Normally, justice is seen as the larger, unconditional phenomenon that the law constricts violently by narrowing and reducing it. This paper argues that violence does not only reside on the side of constriction in Derrida, but that unconditionality is itself always a principle of violence. Indeed constriction and unconditionality work togther insperably even as they challenge and defy one another. By connecting these themes with Bataille's theory of sovereignty, this paper explores the horizons of violence in Derrida's political thinking.
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Sovereignty, originally conceived of in all its majesty as an abstraction, is being demythologized. This process of demystification – or de-deification, whereby power is no longer conceived of simply within its legal entity, but in the... more
Sovereignty, originally conceived of in all its majesty as an abstraction, is being demythologized. This process of demystification – or de-deification, whereby power is no longer conceived of simply within its legal entity, but in the context of its political plurality – is making way for a more functional and material notion of sovereignty: both within the domestic context, through the development of decentralization, federalism and participatory mechanisms as symptoms of the multiplication of decision-making centres; and within the supranational context, through the emergence of ideas of shared sovereignty, governance and cosmopolitanism. This new approach reveals a less vertical concept of sovereign power and a more concrete view of its stakeholders – the people – raising the issue of the maintenance the privileged link between sovereignty and the nation state.
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Did Descartes ever develop a political thought of his own? This question, still open in the field of cartesian studies, is maybe doomed to remain without a definitive answer, mainly because of the lack of a specific work dedicated by him... more
Did Descartes ever develop a political thought of his own? This question, still open in the field of cartesian studies, is maybe doomed to remain without a definitive answer, mainly because of the lack of a specific work dedicated by him to politics. Nevertheless, we have a long letter to Princess Elisabeth in which the french philosopher, starting from his reading of Machiavelli's masterpiece, Il Principe, discusses political matters, and especially the political instruments that a good prince should use in order to guarantee stability to his reign. The present essay deals with it, exploring the possibility that Descartes might have been trying to outline in that text the main features of a political anthropology, founding it on the universal anthropology of passions that he was developing in those years.
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Lawyers usually consider that space is divided into two spheres: the private sphere and the public sphere. But it’s actually a tripartition. Private sphere is about protection of privacy and public sphere about neutrality and “laïcité”.... more
Lawyers usually consider that space is divided into two spheres: the private sphere and the public sphere. But it’s actually a tripartition. Private sphere is about protection of privacy and public sphere about neutrality and “laïcité”. But between the two of them, there is the public space, that of squares, streets, stadiums, theatres, etc. This space must be mainly ruled by “civility”, a social counterweight raised in the XVIth century against the modern state, and not by state rules. The decline of civility benefits the state, which takes advantage of it to cut down liberties, with the consent of the citizens.
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The first part of the paper places Augustine’s and Ricœur’s reflections on evil and textual hermeneutics in their right perspective. The hypothesis is that they both try to articulate an exegetical method through the true «thing of the... more
The first part of the paper places Augustine’s and Ricœur’s reflections on evil and textual hermeneutics in their right perspective. The hypothesis is that they both try to articulate an exegetical method through the true «thing of the text» and that their notion of evil is precisely the paradigm of such a «thing». In the second part it is argued that Augustine’s and Ricœur’s hermeneutics move along opposite directions, from allegorical interpretation to allegorical expression in the first case, from symbols to narrations in the second case. The last part is devoted to the problem of evil in order to show how, beyond all criticism, Ricœur shares and radicalizes the Augustinian position. Once the two opposite hermeneutics have been tested on the benchmark of the shared concept of evil, it is shown that Augustine is somehow more consistent than Ricœur in thinking the hermeneutics of evil.
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In this work I put forward a comparison between Paul Ricœur’s and Ernst Bloch’s thought, that is affected by their cultural background : Ricœur belongs to the Christian Protestant faith, instead Bloch practices a critical Marxist theory.... more
In this work I put forward a comparison between Paul Ricœur’s and Ernst Bloch’s thought, that is affected by their cultural background : Ricœur belongs to the Christian Protestant faith, instead Bloch practices a critical Marxist theory. They share two main basic themes: the utopian hope and the issue about religion, but their analyses imply different philosophical thesis. Ricœur highlights the unfathomable novelty on the horizon of the utopian hope, on the other hand Bloch encloses it within an ideological prospect. About religion they don’t agree either. I point out this paradox: Ricœur, who is a religious believer, draws a distinction between religion and philosophy , whereas Bloch, who is a Marxist, states that the atheist is a good Christian and that the Marxist thought could inherit the genuine religion. Finally, both philosophers theorize about the ‘not-yet ontology’ referred to utopian hope and religion, but their theories take different pathways.
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Psychoanalysis is the science of observing the facts of our inner selves. The distinguishing paradox of its epistemological profile is synthesized in the impossibility for these facts to directly emerge to the conscience, though also to... more
Psychoanalysis is the science of observing the facts of our inner selves. The distinguishing paradox of its epistemological profile is synthesized in the impossibility for these facts to directly emerge to the conscience, though also to be denied: human depth is strangely evident and hidden at once. The intent of this article consists in deepening the paradoxical sense of Freud’s science, first of all through the analytical and critical reading that Paul Ricoeur has handed down us with his work, De l’interprétation. Essai sur Freud (1965); besides, it deals with establishing that the hermeneutical function alone is one hand necessary to bring the so-called energetic existential out, while also insufficient to thoroughly account for it; indeed, a further epistemological function is needed capable of establishing its existence, prior to the necessary –though always subordinate- dimension of sense: yet through Ricoeur’s philosophy and, specifically, through the faculty of attestation, we could try to resolve the linguistic deficiency of psychoanalysis.
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In Paul Ricœur’s Parcours de la reconnaissance, the interest for Recognition as an epistemological and, above all, ethical category derives, as in Honneth, by the fact that it seems to be able to go beyond the two principal moments of the... more
In Paul Ricœur’s Parcours de la reconnaissance, the interest for Recognition as an epistemological and, above all, ethical category derives, as in Honneth, by the fact that it seems to be able to go beyond the two principal moments of the otherness: Ego and Alter, by integrating them in the intersubjective relationship. But Ricœur’s problem is how to save the reciprocity of Recognition without inherently annulling, the otherness. In order to solve it, the French philosopher follows Honneth in his “post-metaphysical” reconstruction of the Hegelian Anerkennung. Still, he does not follow him completely. Starting from his critic to the presumed mauvais infini, that Ricœur blames in Honneth’s Strength for Recognition, and from the multiple ways in which, in his work, otherness and reciprocity are declined, we will try to strengthen the Recognition theory and, in some way, to rethink it differently from the meaning that both authors gave to it. How to effectively and adequately integrate the otherness in a Recognition theory whose goal is social criticism? This is the question we aim to answer to.
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The question of personal identity is an essential topic of Ricoeur's hermeneutics. Working on his theory of narrative identity, Ricoeur frequently refers to Arendt's reflections on narration, in particular those contained in The Human... more
The question of personal identity is an essential topic of Ricoeur's hermeneutics. Working on his theory of narrative identity, Ricoeur frequently refers to Arendt's reflections on narration, in particular those contained in The Human Condition. His discussion of Arendt's thought constitutes, therefore, a starting point from which to shape his own theory of the self. This paper aims to analyze both Ricoeur's and Arendt's notions of narration and narrative identity. First, it compares the parallel approaches the two authors hold toward narration. For Arendt narration is mostly a storytelling performance on the public domain, about the life of someone, whose meaning is established for those who remain. Ricoeur, on the other hand, stresses the hermeneutic function of narration and narration as a text. He argues that both these elements allow to understand the life of characters and to give a new configuration to one's own identity. Eventually, this paper claims that these different notions of narration bring Ricoeur and Arendt to highlight two different impacts of narrative identity, respectively ethical and political. Such a comparison enables us to focus on personal identity in a more comprehensive sense.
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In this paper, I intend to compare Ricoeur's thought about sollicitude and the role of the pitié in Rousseau's moral and political philosophy. This comparison can further enrich the reflection on the social link, an important topic in... more
In this paper, I intend to compare Ricoeur's thought about sollicitude and the role of the pitié in Rousseau's moral and political philosophy. This comparison can further enrich the reflection on the social link, an important topic in many debates about the crisis. These two philosophers examine the distinction between civic relationship and interpersonal relations, between the civic relationship and the relations that men need. Their analyses lead us to think more accurately the foundation of civic link in light of the contemporary debates about human rights in precarious situation and the conflicts between care and justice.
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Moving from the hermeneutic assumption of ricoeurian philosophy, this essay investigates how thinking in medias res “and never at the beginning or at the end” allows for carrying out a reflection which stems from the manifold modalities... more
Moving from the hermeneutic assumption of ricoeurian philosophy, this essay investigates how thinking in medias res “and never at the beginning or at the end” allows for carrying out a reflection which stems from the manifold modalities of being in the world, and also allows for its transformation into word by that man capable of talking, acting, narrating himself, feeling responsible, whom Ricoeur is endlessly outlining in his work. This provides for the philosophy of deviations and crossings, which regulates thinking in view of the confrontation and dialogue with all positions – including those more distant from Ricoeur. From this perspective, despite the impossibility of reconciling philosophical and theological-religious thinking, Ricœur acknowledges the existence of “intersections” and exchanges, whereas the latter may give the former “to think”. So it is for the meditation on Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection in an anti-sacrificial perspective. In this case, Ricœur encounters the Johannine interpretation proposed by Xavier Léon-Dufour, whose essence is briefly resumed here. The philosophical proposal originating from it becomes ethical in Ricœur, himself presenting it as a “positive ethics of detachment”: the detachment from all post-mortem concerns for better focussing on the opportunity which Jesus’ death and resurrection offer, in the first place, to human action in the “communitarian diakonia”; in the second place, to the recovery of sense through looking “at the essence”.
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In the contemporary epoch, characterized by world wars, religious conflicts and economic crises, the respect of the otherness and the dignity of interpersonal relationships has come to be problematic. This essay highlights the possibility... more
In the contemporary epoch, characterized by world wars, religious conflicts and economic crises, the respect of the otherness and the dignity of interpersonal relationships has come to be problematic. This essay highlights the possibility of rethinking an authentic otherness relationship through the rediscovery of a figure of freedom: the meta-conflicting freedom. The main references are Lévinas' and Ricœur's works, with a particular focus on Totality and Infinity and The Course of Recognition. The possibility of peace is open but not automatically ensured.
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This paper suggests an interpretation of crisis and conflict from the point of view of images, they play such an important role in the contemporary world. This thesis will be discussed in three steps. In the first one I develop a short... more
This paper suggests an interpretation of crisis and conflict from the point of view of images, they play such an important role in the contemporary world. This thesis will be discussed in three steps. In the first one I develop a short semantic introduction, not pretending to be systematic, rather intending to “take a walk” through the concept of crisis in order to follow the trajectory that links it to the idea of conflict, through the concept of critic. In the second part, I talk about the crisis and the conflict that opposed two different concepts of image in byzantine iconoclasm, during the eighth century. Finally, I attempt to apply Ricoeur’s essay L’herméneutique du témoignage to the problem of the critic of the images. How can Ricoeur’s hermeneutic of witness contribute to the critic and to the distinction of the images in the contemporary world?
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As Ricoeur’s own discussions reflected, contemporary political theory has typically assumed dichotomous positions between political liberals, who assume that individuals are in a position of otherness to one another, and communitarians,... more
As Ricoeur’s own discussions reflected, contemporary political theory has typically assumed dichotomous positions between political liberals, who assume that individuals are in a position of otherness to one another, and communitarians, who assume that individuals are at bottom the same. Rather than develop Ricoeur’s own response to this dichotomy, this paper draws on Ricoeur’s work in the philosophy of language – in particular, his work on metaphor – to argue that this dichotomy can be mediated. Beyond the dichotomy between the other as other or as the same, metaphor offers the possibility of the relation between self and other as one of “resemblance,” of similarity across difference. Metaphor also offers the prospect of creating resemblance, of finding similarity despite an initial situation of distance. Metaphor resists relativism or simple pluralism, as metaphor has a vertical dimension, a tie to basic ontological understandings that at the same time, in their metaphoricity, require humility in interpretation. The paper here seeks to develop Ricoeur’s cryptic remarks on the basic “metaphoric” that may be “at the root of all classification.” The paper will argue for a reformulation of the just and illustrate its thesis on the basis of contemporary political examples drawn particularly from the United States.
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This paper deals about the articulation of the theories of text and action in Paul Ricœur’s theory of narration. Passing throughout his lecture of Aristotle’s Poetics, in particular his reception of the notions of mimesis and mythos... more
This paper deals about the articulation of the theories of text and action in Paul Ricœur’s theory of narration. Passing throughout his lecture of Aristotle’s Poetics, in particular his reception of the notions of mimesis and mythos (which converge in Ricœur’s notion of plot) we will show how the distinction of three levels of the Aristotelian notion of mimesis (I, II, III) can explain the construction of sense in narrative texts. In this reflection on the articulation of text and action, Ricœur’s theory of narration meets the narrative and generative semiotics proposed by Algirdas J. Greimas. The concept of transformation in their reflection on narration is the presupposed reason of this encounter. Finally, we will show how and why their theories of narration converge or diverge.
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Throughout the history of Western thinking, a way to relate language to being, founded on the duality between language and reality, subject and object, has emerged. On the basis of this duality, language was conceived as a means to... more
Throughout the history of Western thinking, a way to relate language to being, founded on the duality between language and reality, subject and object, has emerged. On the basis of this duality, language was conceived as a means to describe, indicate and represent reality. By breaking with this point of view, Paul Ricoeur sought new linguistic strategies and ways to express reality through the analysis of poetic language. He based this possibility on the idea of the hermeneutic circle in the ontological sense. Thus, there is no duality between language and being, but rather a strict affinity. In this paper, my aim is to retrace and explain the fundamental theoretical aspects of the different linguistic strategies which can be established with reality according to Ricoeur. Therefore, I intend to demonstrate that the notions of “truth”, “being” and “reality” change according to the linguistic strategy adopted to express being. Thus, I will attempt to show that the perspective of reality and truth emerging from the potential of poetic language have consequences on man’s ethical level.
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This article aims to investigate the dialectical tension between the symbol and the cogito in the role Ricoeur attributes to them: the beginning of philosophizing. This approach also reveals the complex dynamic interplay which occurs... more
This article aims to investigate the dialectical tension between the symbol and the cogito in the role Ricoeur attributes to them: the beginning of philosophizing. This approach also reveals the complex dynamic interplay which occurs between two philosophical viewpoints: hermeneutics and reflection. Their dialogue creates a horizon which can host the aporia of this dual beginning. This complex dialectical interplay which develops between the symbol and the cogito can be read as a hermeneutic circle capable of generating meaning. However, it is a new kind of hermeneutic circle, with two actors who derive meaning from each other and who find their ultimate meaning in each other. The cogito and the symbol are the two poles of a magnetic field capable of generating lines of force which keep them in constant connection but also in perennial reciprocal tension. Ricoeur's hermeneutics consists in the study of metaphor and narrative text, and his reflection must respond to the challenge to the cogito posed by the so called masters of suspicion. In the end a new concept of identity is inspired by this double movement: the narrative identity.
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One of the main effects of the digital revolution is the strengthening of the trend towards personalization of mass media. Because of the miniaturization of hardware devices and the proliferation of mobile connections, virtual... more
One of the main effects of the digital revolution is the strengthening of the trend towards personalization of mass media. Because of the miniaturization of hardware devices and the proliferation of mobile connections, virtual transcription and telematics sharing of personal biographies are central today. As a result, the impact on the concept of privacy is inevitable: in an era in which the primacy of the subject is reflected in the exhibition of stripped digital self, the concept is completely renewed.
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I have tried in this contribution to develop a possible meeting-point between the philosophical method of Sartre and the procedure of autobiographical constructivism, where one is existentially incarnated in the act of narration and... more
I have tried in this contribution to develop a possible meeting-point between the philosophical method of Sartre and the procedure of autobiographical constructivism, where one is existentially incarnated in the act of narration and especially in writing of the self. The link discovered has led to a consideration of the act of writing in adult age as an act of self-care, though always with a problematically attentive eye.
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This essay aims at exploring autobiography in the light of the opposition between individual and person. The autobiographical exercise is a pedagogical tool and philosophical object, necessary to create self-subjectivity and to give a... more
This essay aims at exploring autobiography in the light of the opposition between individual and person. The autobiographical exercise is a pedagogical tool and philosophical object, necessary to create self-subjectivity and to give a meaning to the existence of an individual.
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Sarah Kofman (1934-1994) has been one of the most brilliant French philosophers of her generation. She was a highly acclaimed interpreter of Freud and Nietzsche and published more than 30 books and many articles on art, psychoanalysis,... more
Sarah Kofman (1934-1994) has been one of the most brilliant French philosophers of her generation. She was a highly acclaimed interpreter of Freud and Nietzsche and published more than 30 books and many articles on art, psychoanalysis, literature and the philosophical tradition from Socrates to Derrida. She was reknown for her independent thought, her humorous nature, feminist stance and her ability in drawing and painting. She often lectured in the United States and Switzerland and her books have been translated in several languages. She studied with Hyppolite and Deleuze, and taught at the Sorbonne University in Paris from 1970 onwards. She was close to Derrida, Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe, and worked with them for 20 years creating an important editorial series – «Philosophie en effet», for the Galilée publisher. She was a child under the Vichy régime in Paris; her father – a rabbi of Polish origins - was deported and died in Auschwitz, her 5 brothers and sisters were dispersed in various refuges in the countryside, while Sarah and her mother spent the years of the nazi occupation in hiding. She wrote on this tragic infancy in her last book – Rue Ordener, rue Labat; soon after the publication of the book she committed suicide.
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«There is no divorce between philosophy and life», writes Beauvoir in 1948. What can be developed from this assessment according to Beauvoir’s, as a woman’s, work? The first answer is the most well known: a woman is condemned to... more
«There is no divorce between philosophy and life», writes Beauvoir in 1948. What can be developed from this assessment according to Beauvoir’s, as a woman’s, work? The first answer is the most well known: a woman is condemned to particularity, universality being accessible to men only. The way out of this destiny cannot be given by a mere historical becoming: nowadays women are equal and have now equal opportunities. Following Beauvoir’s writings another path can be opened, the one asking for a revision of the philosophical Canon, of the style of thinking, beyond the differences among genres – biographical, fictional and theoretical.
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The paper inquires the co-implications between autobiographism and deconstruction in Derrida’s philosophy. By suggesting that Derrida’s autos may be the pivotal problem, the theoretical notion of writing (of) the autos will be introduced... more
The paper inquires the co-implications between autobiographism and deconstruction in Derrida’s philosophy. By suggesting that Derrida’s autos may be the pivotal problem, the theoretical notion of writing (of) the autos will be introduced and discussed as a feasible solution. Firstly, some main features both of Derrida’s theoretical conception of autobiography (seen as mainly auto-hetero-logical) and of Derrida’s autobiographical writing (seen namely in its existential quality) will be outlined, focusing on their impasses. Then, moving from the concept of autobiography as writing (of) life in Derrida’s L’animal que donc je suis and by an analysis of the automatisms in writing in Derrida’s work, writing (of) the autos will be argued as being the pre-subjective field where autos, automatism and writing may be interconnected. The hybrid morphology (between activity and passivity) of the writing (of) the autos will be finally shown in its potential consequences concerning Derrida’s approach to corporeity.
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The aim of this article is to enquire Ricoeur’s narrative identity from an analytical and critical point of view. Starting from "Soi même comme une autre", three major aspects are highlighted: the congruence between the concept of... more
The aim of this article is to enquire Ricoeur’s narrative identity from an analytical and critical point of view. Starting from "Soi même comme une autre", three major aspects are highlighted: the congruence between the concept of narrative unity of life and the practical function of hermeneutics in the intellectual autobiography; the narrative theory in "Temps et récit" and his connection to Aristotelian concept of time and poiesis; finally, the poetic creativity and the ethical limit of interpretation.
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On many occasions, Foucault said that writing is a transformative experience. This paper attempts to show that the implications of this statement are interwoven with a transformation of the thought and with a relation with truth. From... more
On many occasions, Foucault said that writing is a transformative experience. This paper attempts to show that the implications of this statement are interwoven with a transformation of the thought and with a relation with truth. From this, Foucault’s writing intends to make us sharers of this transformative experience, through what he called “experience-books”. However, this paper reveals that what Foucault points out through this experience is the very possibility of transformation of our present.
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First italian translation of D. Langer, "Subjektbegriff und Selbstinszenierung in Ecce Homo", in Ead., "Wie man wird, was man schreibt. Sprache, Subjekt und Autobiographie bei Nietzsche und Barthes", München 2005. The text illustrates how... more
First italian translation of D. Langer, "Subjektbegriff und Selbstinszenierung in Ecce Homo", in Ead., "Wie man wird, was man schreibt. Sprache, Subjekt und Autobiographie bei Nietzsche und Barthes", München 2005. The text illustrates how the autobiographical self-construction in "Ecce Homo" is connected to Nietzsche’s critic of the subject.
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"Vita di Giambattista Vico scritta da se medesimo" appeared in 1728. More than a recollection of his own life, Vico proposes a fable of himself, beginning with the change of his birth date. This essay illustrates the rhetorical and... more
"Vita di Giambattista Vico scritta da se medesimo" appeared in 1728. More than a recollection of his own life, Vico proposes a fable of himself, beginning with the change of his birth date. This essay illustrates the rhetorical and linguistic traits that characterize the construction of Vico’s narrative, the connection to his "New Science" and the presentation of himself as a modern Socrates. If the "New Science" is the autobiography of the human race, Vico’s autobiography is presented as a total human event, a cycle of three ages and providential events of fall and rise.
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This essay illustrates how Rousseau presented himself in his "Confessions" in a antithetic and a dissimulative logic: at the same time he is a philosopher, an adventurer, a charlatan and a liar.
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This essay highlights the self-construction of the subject in Augustine's "Confessions" and how his spiritual autobiography is connected, through the mirror of writing, to a narrative hermeneutics and conversion. In the "Confessions" we... more
This essay highlights the self-construction of the subject in Augustine's "Confessions" and how his spiritual autobiography is connected, through the mirror of writing, to a narrative hermeneutics and conversion. In the "Confessions" we can attend to a becoming of the subject in which narration and hermeneutics are joined in a indissoluble way. This subject is made up during his conversion by the intercession of the Alterity of God, the Forma omium throught which one can change itself in a forma formosa.
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Starting from her book "Per sentito dire. Conoscenza e testimonianza", Nicla Vassallo goes deeper in the relations between autobiography, testimony and personal responsibility, dealing with both social and epistemological matters.
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Carlo Sini deepens the interrelations between autobiography and philosophy, pointing out some crucial features of his thought. In the interview, Sini goes through several problems such as the genealogical meaning of philosophical... more
Carlo Sini deepens the interrelations between autobiography and philosophy, pointing out some crucial features of his thought. In the interview, Sini goes through several problems such as the genealogical meaning of philosophical practice; the relationship between knowledge of signs, life and death; the problem of truth and its ethical consequences.
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First italian translation of J. Derrida, "Interpreting Signatures (Nietzsche/Heidegger): two questions". This lecture was given in a conference with Hans-Georg Gadamer organized in 1981 at the Goethe Institute in Paris. Precisely through... more
First italian translation of J. Derrida, "Interpreting Signatures (Nietzsche/Heidegger): two questions". This lecture was given in a conference with Hans-Georg Gadamer organized in 1981 at the Goethe Institute in Paris. Precisely through the theme of signature, Derrida deconstructs not only the unity of Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche but even the unifying logic of Western metaphysics.
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In January 1667 Claude Perrault submitted to the Académie royale des sciences of Paris a Projet pour les expériences et observations anatomiques, preamble to the Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire naturelle des animaux (1671-1676) and to... more
In January 1667 Claude Perrault submitted to the Académie royale des sciences of Paris a Projet pour les expériences et observations anatomiques, preamble to the Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire naturelle des animaux (1671-1676) and to the Essais de physique (1680-1688), aiming at a radical methodological renewal of physiology and comparative anatomy, based on clear distinction between “facts” and “hypotheses”. By acknowledging a causal role of the soul in the functional regulation of all life processes, Perrault frees himself from the Cartesian hypothesis of living automata...
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As several contemporary scholars already pointed out, the reduction of the Medieval "internal senses" to only one internal sense, usually identified with imagination, was one of the trends which most evidently characterize the... more
As several contemporary scholars already pointed out, the reduction of the Medieval "internal senses" to only one internal sense, usually identified with imagination, was one of the trends which most evidently characterize the early-modern philosophical psychology. But this trend was not universally widespread and met some puzzling inner difficulties. On the first side, one can find some pieces of Medieval accounts on inner senses even in typically modern contexts such as showed by the persistence of the "estimative power" in some of the early-modern doctrines of human passions. On the other side, even full-blooded "reductionists" often were...
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The theoreticians of peinture in early modern period, Lodovico Dolce, Roger Piles and Félibien, distinguish this art in three kind of clump: invenction (or composition), drawing and colouring. This sort of partition on its part is yet... more
The theoreticians of peinture in early modern period, Lodovico Dolce, Roger Piles and Félibien, distinguish this art in three kind of clump: invenction (or composition), drawing and colouring. This sort of partition on its part is yet based on the preliminar basic division between theory (conception) and practice (composition) on the one hand, and realisation (drawing and colouring). If the distinction between drawing and colouring does not effects the theory, maybe we can suppose a petito principii deriving from materialistical thesis: it totally excludes indeed the initial conception to demonstrate its absence or uselessness. The aim of my article is to show...
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Current research in neuroscience suggests that music can have a profound effect on brain function, in particular a therapeutic one in cases of brain injury or neurological disorders. This article proposes that some early modern... more
Current research in neuroscience suggests that music can have a profound effect on brain function, in particular a therapeutic one in cases of brain injury or neurological disorders. This article proposes that some early modern philosophers were open to the possibility of "magic" in the sense that music and its effect on the emotions was seen as a potential cure for many ills, mental disorders in particular. This period does, after all, see the beginning of sustained interest in melancholy and related disorders. This essay offers the example of Michael Maier, court alchemist to Rudolph II of Prague and to other European leaders...
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Stories of the maternal imagination, imprinting images on the fetus or deforming it, were commonplace in the early modern period. The recent secondary literature has discussed theories of the maternal imagination in relation to animal... more
Stories of the maternal imagination, imprinting images on the fetus or deforming it, were commonplace in the early modern period. The recent secondary literature has discussed theories of the maternal imagination in relation to animal generation and heredity, but has ignored the broader context of theories of the powerful imagination. In this article, I will show how a curious story about a cherry, imprinted on the skin of a fetus, was used by the Neo-Platonist philosopher Henry More as an occasion to explore stronger powers of the imagination, which could act outside the body. On the one hand, theories of a powerful imagination, as advocated by Pomponazzi...
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This paper starts with a discussion of Aristotle's akrasia, or "weakness of will" in the Reformation period. The discussion is then connected with the cultural distinction between "gifts and sales", arguing that Martin Luther employs... more
This paper starts with a discussion of Aristotle's akrasia, or "weakness of will" in the Reformation period. The discussion is then connected with the cultural distinction between "gifts and sales", arguing that Martin Luther employs theological concepts as prominent examples of the so-called "gift mode". Finally, the issue of "appropriation" (Aneignung) is addressed: if grace is pure gift and as such not dependant on the efforts of human will, how can Protestants claim that they participate in the realm of grace?
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From the very first Christianity to the Concilium of Trento, the regularization of confession crosses centuries of arguments and controversies. Its determination proceeds at the same time with the confessor's figure, who had a very... more
From the very first Christianity to the Concilium of Trento, the regularization of confession crosses centuries of arguments and controversies. Its determination proceeds at the same time with the confessor's figure, who had a very professional and specialized tasks, and with the idea of poenitentia. It is in this extremely confused context that the revolution of Ignazio from Loyola will be decisive: once detached from the generical practice's shape it had, the confession will become the syntex of a self-examination and self-decovering path.
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Teresa of Avila's emphasis on humility, grounded in bodily finitude, is well known and much discussed. This paper argues that it is essential to her epistemology, first as a way of avoiding overconfidence in uncertain knowledge, and... more
Teresa of Avila's emphasis on humility, grounded in bodily finitude, is well known and much discussed. This paper argues that it is essential to her epistemology, first as a way of avoiding overconfidence in uncertain knowledge, and second as a reminder to trust in true knowledge; i.e., knowledge that comes from God. That this emphasis has genuine epistemological and not just religious value is demonstrated by close parallels in the epistemology of early modern philosopher Rene Descartes, for whom we can only find truth by restraining the will to rush to assertion.
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This article attempts to delineate the history of the monstruos by recognizing inside it the manifestation of severance between the contingent and the trascendent world. The monster embodies the boundary of the everlasting paradox of... more
This article attempts to delineate the history of the monstruos by recognizing inside it the manifestation of severance between the contingent and the trascendent world. The monster embodies the boundary of the everlasting paradox of human existence, in the balance between the desire of knowing and the impossibility of drawing completely on knowledge.
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This contribution to the contemporary figure of monstrosity looks for a common feature that may characterize and explain what we recognize as monster in the West. The article takes into account the rebel robot that must be destroyed... more
This contribution to the contemporary figure of monstrosity looks for a common feature that may characterize and explain what we recognize as monster in the West. The article takes into account the rebel robot that must be destroyed because it threatens humanity: prevailing in the imaginary of popular culture, this story is the resumption of the myth of the Golem, endlessly reproduced in novels and movies, since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The Golem, intelligent and humanoid creature is monstrous because it lacks a soul, a spiritual and transcendental principle that defines human being...
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The Quart livre of Rabelais is marked by the variety of monsters and at the same time by the way they are represented ie, their description. Our study observes the modality of fictional workings, and fictional monsters, among which... more
The Quart livre of Rabelais is marked by the variety of monsters and at the same time by the way they are represented ie, their description. Our study observes the modality of fictional workings, and fictional monsters, among which Bringuenarilles (Chapter XVII) is an example of an "impossible" monster.
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This paper looks at John Florio’s comments on translation — especially in the Epistle Dedicatorie and To the Curteous Reader of his 1603 translation of Montaigne’s Essayes — and examines the extent to which Florio conceived of translation... more
This paper looks at John Florio’s comments on translation — especially in the Epistle Dedicatorie and To the Curteous Reader of his 1603 translation of Montaigne’s Essayes — and examines the extent to which Florio conceived of translation as a monstrous birth of knowledge. Crucial to this exploration are a remark of Florio’s friend Giordano Bruno that claimed science, or knowledge, was the offspring of translation; Florio’s definition of "móstro" from his 1598 Italian-English dictionary A Worlde of Wordes; and some of Montaigne’s remarks about the multiplicity and hybridity of both the essay...
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At the end of the Eighteenth century, anatomists aimed at detaching themselves from a mere classifying and descriptive approach to establish a philosophic science studying form patterns and relationships. Organic forms can either be part... more
At the end of the Eighteenth century, anatomists aimed at detaching themselves from a mere classifying and descriptive approach to establish a philosophic science studying form patterns and relationships. Organic forms can either be part of a research program, grounded on how their components coordinate and are related from a functionalist perspective, as Cuvier maintained, or explained by placing them within a pattern, a single framework of organization (unity of composition), as it is for Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. These positions came to a clash in 1830, resulting in what...
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The theme of monsters crosses all ages and survives through the centuries, provoking questions in such diverse fields as physiology, medecine, philosophy and even morality. If examples of vegetals with remarquable structures have been... more
The theme of monsters crosses all ages and survives through the centuries, provoking questions in such diverse fields as physiology, medecine, philosophy and even morality. If examples of vegetals with remarquable structures have been many times related by naturalists since antiquity, thus contradicting the monotony of the development cycles, it is nonetheless the human monster which attracts all the attention, either hostile or curious. From the point of view of disciplines such as medecine or chemistry, the 18th century often appears as a transition century...
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Campanella’s reflection about teratology goes through some of the main issues in his thought and more in general the philosophical debate of his time: the controversial about the human generation ex purefatio, the organic and functional... more
Campanella’s reflection about teratology goes through some of the main issues in his thought and more in general the philosophical debate of his time: the controversial about the human generation ex purefatio, the organic and functional distinction man-woman, the theory of imagination, the moral responsibility and the contra natura sin, the possibility of creating artificial life. Especially, and this is the essential point for Campanella, this theme regards the heart of the theological anthropology, questioning the very concept of humanity...
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Images of magical evil populate community festivals in various European countries, especially Spain. There, ritualized images of demons, devils, ogres, deformed animals and so on are rife in village fetes. Symbolizing evil and horror,... more
Images of magical evil populate community festivals in various European countries, especially Spain. There, ritualized images of demons, devils, ogres, deformed animals and so on are rife in village fetes. Symbolizing evil and horror, monster effigies perform burlesque aggressions in the streets before they are killed off in typical Christian morality plays. This paper describes some of these representations in rural Spain and goes on to interpret the monster vs. man narrative from an ethnological and a psychological viewpoint, utilizing a model of “redemptive violence”.
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This essay attempts to draw connections between medieval maps and their many monsters, digital cartographical interfaces, and modern experiences of the world. Each impacts our understandings of the others. The medieval notion of speculum... more
This essay attempts to draw connections between medieval maps and their many monsters, digital cartographical interfaces, and modern experiences of the world. Each impacts our understandings of the others. The medieval notion of speculum - the metaphorical mirror that allows us to see our worlds and ourselves more clearly - draws attention to the very process of spectatorship. The modern notion of "telesthesia" (perception at a distance) borrowed from Cultural Studies, becomes a unifying discourse, allowing us to bridge the gap between medieval and modern, East and West, us and them, viewer and monster.
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Referring to Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy, I try in this paper to examine Jonas’ principle of responsibility in order to free the concept from its semantic overdetermination and its boundless expansive logics, which characterizes current... more
Referring to Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy, I try in this paper to examine Jonas’ principle of responsibility in order to free the concept from its semantic overdetermination and its boundless expansive logics, which characterizes current definition of responsibility. With the help of Ricoeur’s categories, I focus on the concepts of personal identity and responsiveness: they underline responsibility as a stratified and open-ended task, that can only be performed on different levels of personal engagement.
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In this paper I suggest the possibility of rethinking feminism beyond a substantialized gender distinction. In current economic system is the body active as well as passive subject of consume. This means that also our sexual choices... more
In this paper I suggest the possibility of rethinking feminism beyond a substantialized gender distinction. In current economic system is the body active as well as passive subject of consume. This means that also our sexual choices involve an ethical significance: we have to refuse the concept of unindifferentiated gender as an excuse of capitalism to renew the commodification of (female) body
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My aim in this paper is to consider some cases of moral responsibility, that are particularly clear and revealing in relation to some dramatic events in recent history and news items. The way facts and events are described by press and... more
My aim in this paper is to consider some cases of moral responsibility, that are particularly clear and revealing in relation to some dramatic events in recent history and news items. The way facts and events are described by press and information agencies is not neutral nor even lacking of consequences: it can clash against the principle of freedom of expression and open a moral and political dilemma, because it can have influence on historical processes and can reduce social moral claims. An example for this is the affair of the comic strip against Mohammed published by Danish journal “Jilland Posten” in 2005.
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The problem of sustainable development represents one of the most important challenges of our time. It immediatly points out the significance that a responsible behaviour gains in everyday life, since we are now completely responsible for... more
The problem of sustainable development represents one of the most important challenges of our time. It immediatly points out the significance that a responsible behaviour gains in everyday life, since we are now completely responsible for the environmental protection. One of the main problems is that of information excess and confusion in popular science. In this paper I try to show this set of problems, referring to Max Weber’s vocabulary and concepts.
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In this paper I examine the concept of human practical ethics referring to the problem of the vacation of instincts in human beeings. Moral laws and prescriptions can be seen as the surrogates of instincts, and they can be studied in... more
In this paper I examine the concept of human practical ethics referring to the problem of the vacation of instincts in human beeings. Moral laws and prescriptions can be seen as the surrogates of instincts, and they can be studied in relation to the rest of animal kingdom. From such a point of view, the nexus between nature and culture needs to be put in the middle and examined with the help of genetics.
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My attempt in this essay is to ask where and which are the limits of human manipulative power on nature: do we have to establish these limits a priori or it is better to derive them by practice? However, two solutions appear equally... more
My attempt in this essay is to ask where and which are the limits of human manipulative power on nature: do we have to establish these limits a priori or it is better to derive them by practice? However, two solutions appear equally unacceptable: the Prometheic one, inspired by triumphant scientism, and the primitivistic one as well, opposing to scientific progress. I will refer to Hans Jonas’ philosophy to show that only on the hard way of an ethics of responsibility it becomes possible to find an appropriate solution to those questions.
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My aim in this paper is to suggest a new kind of moral responsibility in order to face the challenges of current practical ethics. I will not consider all the ontological and metaphisical problems nor the legal implications of... more
My aim in this paper is to suggest a new kind of moral responsibility in order to face the challenges of current practical ethics. I will not consider all the ontological and metaphisical problems nor the legal implications of responsibility, but will focus on the level of individual responsibility in context of the interpersonal and public relations, where the matter is giving (and asking) moral reasons for actions. The main problems arising from such a point of view are related, as I will show, to bioethics, social justice and climate change.
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In this paper I will provide an analytical and interpretive reading of Hans Jonas’ masterpiece Das Prinzip Verantwortung, with particular reference to its first seven paragraphs, in order to show how the ontological roots of Jonas’... more
In this paper I will provide an analytical and interpretive reading of Hans Jonas’ masterpiece Das Prinzip Verantwortung, with particular reference to its first seven paragraphs, in order to show how the ontological roots of Jonas’ concept of responsibility allow a review of ethics beyond the purely subjective dimension, which is dominant in the tradition from Kant onwards. The objects themselves and nature as a whole become the moral referents in the era of technological civilization.
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Classical liberalism aimed to realize toleration among people with different religious beliefs. According to traditional liberals, religion operates freely within the domain of the private, whereas neutrality among the religions must... more
Classical liberalism aimed to realize toleration among people with different religious beliefs. According to traditional liberals, religion operates freely within the domain of the private, whereas neutrality among the religions must reign in the public domain.
Within contemporary liberalism, the relation between politics and religion is different from the traditional liberal one. For the contemporary liberal ethics of respect, the problem is not that religion threaten stability, but rather that we need a cement of society based on an universal, that is by religious and not religious persons, consensus in a pluralist society.
Within contemporary liberalism, the relation between politics and religion is different from the traditional liberal one. For the contemporary liberal ethics of respect, the problem is not that religion threaten stability, but rather that we need a cement of society based on an universal, that is by religious and not religious persons, consensus in a pluralist society.
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In the last phase of his thought, Norberto Bobbio reflects on himself. A shift of his thought leads to reconsider his position, particularly in relation to the work of Benedetto Croce. The consequence of the change of point of view is the... more
In the last phase of his thought, Norberto Bobbio reflects on himself. A shift of his thought leads to reconsider his position, particularly in relation to the work of Benedetto Croce. The consequence of the change of point of view is the transformation of classical and political liberalism in a primarily ethic and cultural liberalism. This is not very different from that of Benedetto Croce, criticized in a first step.
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Romanticism is, in the thought of Isaiah Berlin, a lifestyle, an option to a pluralism that is not the same of relativism of values. In this sense, Romanticism is that way of life that can give rise to a democracy of compromise, based on... more
Romanticism is, in the thought of Isaiah Berlin, a lifestyle, an option to a pluralism that is not the same of relativism of values. In this sense, Romanticism is that way of life that can give rise to a democracy of compromise, based on a non-relativistic permeability of values. In Berlin?s thought, liberalism and democracy of compromise can be interpreted as the outcome of the enthusiasm of the Romantics.
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The difference between philosophical and scientific theories is given by the principle of falsifiability. Unlike scientific theories, philosophical ones are not falsifiable, but we must consider that ethical standards and values are not... more
The difference between philosophical and scientific theories is given by the principle of falsifiability. Unlike scientific theories, philosophical ones are not falsifiable, but we must consider that ethical standards and values are not equivalent, although all are equally understandable and evaluable. Plurality of positions doesn't mean relativism of values. This is the fundamental assumption to understand whether tolerance and democracy are possible for those who consider themselves in possession of absolute truths.
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My purpose here is to show the similarity between Tocqueville?s and Percy?s analysis of American disorientation, of a people confused by not knowing the whole truth about who they are and what they?re supposed to do. So my purpose is to... more
My purpose here is to show the similarity between Tocqueville?s and Percy?s analysis of American disorientation, of a people confused by not knowing the whole truth about who they are and what they?re supposed to do. So my purpose is to show that the seeds of American Thomism, at least, are already in Tocqueville?s two-volume Democracy in America (1835, 1840).
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This essay want to offer a overview on an interpretation of ethical-political Smith's thought which incorporates the results of the last phase of the studies about Smith. Smith is an anti-cartesian, an opponent of metaphysical systems and... more
This essay want to offer a overview on an interpretation of ethical-political Smith's thought which incorporates the results of the last phase of the studies about Smith. Smith is an anti-cartesian, an opponent of metaphysical systems and of theories that reduce the manifold to the too simple. He is a liberal in the sense of a normative ethics that defend all the battles for liberty as a defence of justice and equality, but not in the sense of economic liberalism which emerged in England in the nineteenth-century
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Voltaire does not pretend to discover new ideas, he wants to give them life, to compare them, to share them with his readers. He compares himself with the authors of his time marking the point of agreement and disagreement. His thought... more
Voltaire does not pretend to discover new ideas, he wants to give them life, to compare them, to share them with his readers. He compares himself with the authors of his time marking the point of agreement and disagreement. His thought does not celebrate the triumphant reason, but marks her limits, thats why she is increased of value. Essential is his refusal to bin himself to a single theory. In this conceptual horizon lies his conception of tolerance as a remedy for human weakness.
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John Locke is oft identified as the founder of the liberal tradition of political thought. His political writings must be seen as efforts to the issues of the age. To emphasize the relation between Locke's writings and his political... more
John Locke is oft identified as the founder of the liberal tradition of political thought. His political writings must be seen as efforts to the issues of the age. To emphasize the relation between Locke's writings and his political context is not to reduce those writings to being merely partisan statements with bearing only on the immediate situations. He attempted to speak to the political conflicts of his time by presenting the truth about politics and the political place of religion.
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Lo Sguardo – Journal of Philosophy, Call for Papers PHILOSOPHY AND RETHORIC - N. XVII, February 2015 The issue XVII (February 2015) will be dedicated to Philosophy and Rhetoric. There will be four different sections: 1) Rhetoric and... more
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PHILOSOPHY AND RETHORIC - N. XVII, February 2015
The issue XVII (February 2015) will be dedicated to Philosophy and Rhetoric. There will be four different sections: 1) Rhetoric and the Truth of Word; 2) Figures of Thought: About Metaphor 3) Rhetoric and Psychoanalysis 4) Rhetoric and Politics: between Performativity and Subjectivation.
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PHILOSOPHY AND RETHORIC - N. XVII, February 2015
The issue XVII (February 2015) will be dedicated to Philosophy and Rhetoric. There will be four different sections: 1) Rhetoric and the Truth of Word; 2) Figures of Thought: About Metaphor 3) Rhetoric and Psychoanalysis 4) Rhetoric and Politics: between Performativity and Subjectivation.
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Lo Sguardo – Rivista di Filosofia, Call for Papers FILOSOFIA E RETORICA, N. XVII, Febbraio 2015 Il numero XVII de Lo Sguardo sarà dedicato al rapporto tra Filosofia e Retorica e strutturato in 4 sezioni: 1) Retorica e verità; 2)... more
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FILOSOFIA E RETORICA, N. XVII, Febbraio 2015
Il numero XVII de Lo Sguardo sarà dedicato al rapporto tra Filosofia e Retorica e strutturato in 4 sezioni: 1) Retorica e verità; 2) Figure del pensiero: sul ruolo della metafora; 3) Retorica e psicanalisi; 4) Retorica e politica: tra performatività e soggettivazione.
Lingue accettate: Italiano, Inglese, Francese, Tedesco, Spagnolo
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FILOSOFIA E RETORICA, N. XVII, Febbraio 2015
Il numero XVII de Lo Sguardo sarà dedicato al rapporto tra Filosofia e Retorica e strutturato in 4 sezioni: 1) Retorica e verità; 2) Figure del pensiero: sul ruolo della metafora; 3) Retorica e psicanalisi; 4) Retorica e politica: tra performatività e soggettivazione.
Lingue accettate: Italiano, Inglese, Francese, Tedesco, Spagnolo
Deadline per la consegna: 9 gennaio 2015
Invio a: redazione@losguardo.net
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Il numero XI de Lo Sguardo verterà sul rapporto tra autobiografia, narrazione di sé ed ermeneutica del soggetto. Due le polarità concettuali intorno alle quali si svilupperà la rassegna. Da una parte, con una sezione dedicata a interventi... more
Il numero XI de Lo Sguardo verterà sul rapporto tra autobiografia, narrazione di sé ed ermeneutica del soggetto. Due le polarità concettuali intorno alle quali si svilupperà la rassegna. Da una parte, con una sezione dedicata a interventi di carattere teoretico, si tenterà di sottolineare il rapporto dinamico e dialettico che lega il soggetto auto-narrante con gli strumenti stessi – materiali e linguistici – della narrazione, evidenziando il nesso che lega questa narrazione stessa a una costituzione ermeneutica e un'articolazione interiore di sé. Dall'altra, con una sezione di interventi di carattere storico, si indagheranno le categorie filosofiche e linguistiche mediante le quali molti filosofi, nella storia del pensiero, hanno rappresentato sé stessi.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Philosophy Of Language, Hermeneutics, Autobiography, Paul Ricoeur, and 8 moreMichel Foucault, Paul Ricoeur (in ) Philosophy, Autobiographical Theory, Autobiographical Self-Representation, Foucault and education, Autobiographical Memory, Hermeneutics of the Subject, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy, Metaphysics of Consciousness, Subjectivities, Reformed Theology and Ethics, Self Consciousness, and 12 moreHistory of Consciousness, History Of Modern Philosophy, Spirituality & Psychology, Subjectivity Studies, Conceptions of Individuality and Selfhood, Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola, The Early Jesuits and Catholic Reform, The construction of subjectivity: Identity and Culture., Counter-Reformation, XVII century philosophy, Reinassance philosophy, and Mnemotechnics
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Research Interests: Intellectual History, Cultural History, Medical Anthropology, Philosophy, Metaphysics, and 48 morePhilosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, 17th Century & Early Modern Philosophy, Self and Identity, History of Ideas, Early Modern History, Metaphysics of Consciousness, Subjectivities, History of Science, Social Cognition, Renaissance Philosophy, Catholic Reform, Alchemy, Continental Philosophy, Prayer, Jesuit history, Consciousness, Self-Knowledge, 16th Century (History), Intellectual History of the Baroque Period, Imagination, History of Consciousness, History and Evolution of Consciousness, Subjectivity Studies, Conceptions of Individuality and Selfhood, Art of memory, Consciousness Studies, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Memory, Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Teresa of Avila, Esotericism, The Early Jesuits and Catholic Reform, Moral, Jesuits, Ignatian Spirituality, Contemplative Prayer, Mindreading, Imagination and theological formation, Spanish Renaissance and Baroque Art, Subject, Jesuit theatre, Baroque theatre, Counter-Reformation, San Ignacio de Loyola, Mnemotechnics, History of Philosophy, Simulationist Theories, and Philosophy of Mind: Imagination
The eleventh number of Lo Sguardo will focus on the relationship between autobiography, self-narrative and hermeneutics of the subject. The number will have two major conceptual pillars. On the one hand, a section focused on theoretical... more
The eleventh number of Lo Sguardo will focus on the relationship between autobiography, self-narrative and hermeneutics of the subject. The number will have two major conceptual pillars. On the one hand, a section focused on theoretical contributions. In this section, we aim at emphasizing the dynamic and dialectical relationship that links the subject (narrating himself) to the same tools of the narrative: material and language. More precisely, this section highlights the link between the narrative and the hermeneutic constitution and articulation of the inner self. On the other hand, another section of historical interventions aiming at investigating the philosophical and linguistic categories through which many philosophers represented themselves in the history of thought.
