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La rivista attualmente è presente nell'elenco delle riviste scientifiche per le aree 11 e 14 dell'Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR) ai fini dell'Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale.
Université de Strasbourg
(Bordeaux 1940) is one of the most important leading figures of contemporary thought. He was a professor at the University of Strasbourg, and in the 1970s and 1980s he was a guest professor at several universities all over the world, such as the University of California or the Freie Universität in Berlin. The principal topics of his work are body, community, freedom, democracy: concepts that he has elaborated analysing and criticizing the heideggerian heritage. Among his books, translated in several countries: La communauté désouvrée, (Christian Bourgois, Paris 1986), L’expérience de la liberté (Galilée, Paris 1988), Corpus, (Métailié, Paris 1992), Les Muses (Galilée, Paris 1994), Être singulier pluriel (Galilée, Paris 1996), La création du monde ou la mondialisation (Galilée, Paris 2002), Verité de la démocratie (Galilée, Paris 2008), La déclosion. Déconstruction du christianisme 1 (Galilée, Paris 2005), L’Adoration. Déconstruction du christianisme 2 (Galilée, Parigi 2010), La communauté désavouée (Galilée, Paris 2014), Banalité de Heidegger (Galilée, Paris 2015).
A spectre is haunting Europe (and the Western world). It’s not communism like since Marx’ Manifesto 1848 and until 1990, but today it’s the spectre of populism. All are afraid of it, but they don’t know it very well. It’s time for looking at it openly. There is no democracy without populism – as well in the past as today. When the demagogues in the Athenian democracy incited the poorer people, they created populism. Since the ancient governors called themselves “benefactors of the people” without being it, Jesus recommended that we should act differently by conviction: “whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave”. The statesman should be the servant of all people. The paper points out that it is not secularism what solves the problem of populism, because real values need really more genuine motivational power.
Keywords: Populism, Democracy, Secularism, Globalisation, Christianity
Love for freedom is much less frequent and active than love for the idea of freedom. Analyzing some texts by Donald W. Winnicott, Robert Antelme and Dionys Mascolo, the article discusses the reasons why it may happen that men feel relief at the deposition of their freedom and may wish to be controlled. The relationship between projection, resentment and renunciation of freedom is identified as a significant psychic dynamic to understand the “choice” of submission as well as the neutralization of effective responsible action.
Keywords: Donald W. Winnicott, Drive, Resentment, Subjection, Responsibility
Università degli Studi di Messina
is currently Full Professor of History of Philosophy at the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, University of Messina (Italy). His research interests focus on the analysis of the relationship between philosophy and science. Giordano’s historical-philosophical approach clearly emerges also in his interests for Italian philosophy. He has published several books: Tra paradigmi e rivoluzioni. Thomas Kuhn (Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 1997); La filosofia di Ilya Prigogine (Armando Editore, Roma 2005); Da Einstein a Morin. Filosofia e scienza tra due paradigmi (Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2006); Storie di concetti. Fatti, Teorie, Metodo, Scienza (Le Lettere, Firenze 2012); La filosofia della scienza di Giovanni Vailati (Le Lettere, Firenze 2014). He has also published several articles in books, refereed journals and proceedings.
This essay focuses on Benedetto Croce’s criticisms of the comparison between the liberties of the ancients and the liberties of the moderns proposed by Benjamin Constant in 1819. Freedom and the ideal of humanity does not only coincide with some historical form in Croce’s perspective. Through the critiques of Croce it can be seen how a reflection on philosophical freedom can be useful today, in the face of the impoverishment of political discussion.
Keywords: Benedetto Croce, Benjamin Constant, Theory of Liberty, Liberalism, Politics
In this paper we try to answer the question of what human trafficking is, how human traffickers identify, approach and entrap their victims into schemes of exploitation. By the end of the article, the question will concern how much it costs for victims of human trafficking to reclaim their freedom to act, to move, to live, and how civil society hosting victims of human trafficking can provide them with the right kind of support so that they can be free, enabling them to (re)gain all the democratic tools/instruments, and most of all how we can make the victims aware of being such, and that someone else owns a big part of their lives.
Keywords: Trafficking, Smuggling, Exploitation, Rite, Awareness of self
This essay reconstructs several images of political concept of freedom in the modern and contemporary tradition. In the first part the Author traces the genealogy of modern political concept of freedom that produces the achievement of sovereignty and the individual rights in the age of revolutions. This political and historical process shows an image of freedom as property of the modern subject which is free because safe, autonomous and independent. In the second part, the Author introduces a different imagine of freedom in accord with the arendtian position of What is freedom? So political freedom can be sketched as an action, a new beginning, an unexpected event; and thus, this different image of freedom is showed as a possible way out from our age of crisis.
Keywords: Liberty, Individual Rights, Hannah Arendt, Political Action
Università Federico II di Napoli
Is researcher in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II. She has obtained the teaching qualification as Professor in Theoretical Philosophy and Moral Philosophy. Her main research interest focuses on the theory of historical knowledge, especially in contemporary philosophy. She has been editor for the three-year project Lessico crociano. Un breviario filosofico-politico per il futuro (La Scuola di Pitagora, Napoli 2016). She is also co-director for the series of philosophy Vita Nova, for the editor Le Lettere, Firenze, member of the national editorial board of “Shift. International Journal of Philosophical Studies” (Mimesis, Milano) and member of editorial board of “Shift. Philosophical Series” (Mimesis International). In October 2016, she received in Rome the “Dante Alighieri” award. Among her publications, Logica dell’altro. Heidegger e Platone (Giannini, Napoli 2008); L’identico e i molteplici. Meditazioni michelstaedteriane (Loffredo, Napoli 2011); Michelstaedter al futuro (La Scuola di Pitagora, Napoli 2012); H. Arendt, Humanitas mundi. Scritti su Karl Jaspers (ed. by R. Peluso, Mimesis, Milano 2015); 19 domande su Benedetto Croce. Idealismo e altre idee (Società Dante Alighieri, Roma 2017).
Modern and epic Icarus of liberal antifascism, Lauro de Bosis passes away before even reaching his thirties, following the flight on Rome during the night of October the 3rd, 1931.
Formerly executive secretary of Italy America Society and Lecturer in American universities since the end of the Twenties, young de Bosis cultivated a very strong ideal relationship with Benedetto Croce and his philosophy, to the extent that he self-proclaimed to be the divulger of Croceanism in the USA. The Crocean thought is to him the ripest, noblest fruit of the Italian civilization, vilified by fascism: this value is what inspires the Lauro de Bosis Lectureship, instituted in Harvard after his death, and to this day it still inspires the Lauro de Bosis Fellowship on Italian Civilization.
During the months preceding the air strike, Lauro writes speeches for several conferences, one of which is titled La religione della libertà, like the first chapter of Storia d’Europa by Croce. The genesis and the spiritual dimension in which the conference develops are hereby pieced together, with appropriate references to the unpublished letters to Croce, to be shortly released by the essay’s writer.
In the years in which the Italian dictator talks about the “rotten corpse” of freedom, its rebirth as authentic, laic, philosophical “religion”, concrete opponent of any kind of totalitarianism, symbolically soars with a man.
Keywords: Lauro de Bosis, Benedetto Croce, Gaetano Salvemini, Freedom, Liberalism, Anti-Fascism, Europe, USA, Thirties
Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli
As human life emerges as a representational unrealizing of pre-natal oniric latency, technological equipment expresses the human urgency of compensative sur-reality. In this perspective, imagination has to be focused as a promethean fire lightening the oniric human luxurious aspiration to representational enjoyment of life and as the immaterial constituent of the techno-digital process of cybercapitalist systemic complexity.
Keywords: Immagination, Anthropoiesis, Sympthome, Representational enjoyment, Technology.
Scuola Normale di Pisa, Istituto di Scienze Umane di Firenze
PhD in the History of Ideas at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He’s been co-convener of the “Market Square” research group at CRASSH (Center for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences), University of Cambridge. Moreover he’s among the editors of “Pandora. Rivista di teoria e politica”. His research interests vary from political philosophy to semiotics, to aethetics.
The essay develops a concept of the power-liberty relationship, in its theoretical and political terms, based on a loosely marxian analysis of social conflicts. It does so in order to build up a critique of the liberal point of view, represented by Berlin’s, Keynes’ and Rawls’ philosophical positions in some of their main works. It argues, specifically, that liberty can only be understood as an aspect of power, as far as we undertake a political and therefore systemic standpoint, where the latter is to be seen as a global comprehension of cause-effect nexuses in human interactions.
Keywords: Freedom, Power, Berlin, Rawls, Keynes
Università degli Studi di Salerno, †
Is Associate Professor of History of Political Philosophy at University of Salerno, where he is also in charge of Political Philosophy since 2005. Since October 1. 2012 he is also in charge of History of Philosophy. He is qualified as Ordinary Professor of Moral Philosophy. He is also member of the doctoral program in “Etica e filosofia politico-giuridica” and he was member of the board of the Centre for the Study of Political Philosophy at the same University. He has given courses of lectures at the “Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici” in Naples and he is member of the University of Salerno committee for international relations. Among his most recent publications: Politica e/o teologia (Liguori, Napoli 1999), Pensare la Politica (Edizioni Lavoro, Roma 2002), Terre di confine. Politica, Filosofia, Teologia (Città aperta, Troina 2009), Un’altra “teologia politica”? (Mimesis, Milano 2012), Piero Martinetti, Spinoza (ed. by F.S. Festa, Castelvecchi, Roma 2017).
The essay deals with the idea of the subject in the political realism of Vilfredo Pareto. While discussing the theoretical and epistemological status of “residues” and “derivates”, it focuses on a concept of human being as an “ideological animal”, defined both by impulses, instincts or inclinations and a “need for logic”, i.e., man’s tendency to give a rational justification to his motives and acts. As a result, the power of persuasion in shaping social conducts – and, first of all, social equilibrium – in opposition to that of truth is emphasized. The interpretative proposal discloses a model of subjectivity, in which human nature and social construction intertwine and overlap, and formulate, as Pareto’s possible conclusive hypothesis, that of a social unconscious, never fully investigable, where society meets subjectivity “at the back” of consciousness.
Keywords: Pareto, Residues, Derivations, Persuasion, Social unconscious
Università degli Studi di Salerno
is PhD in Italian Studies. She received a research fellowship in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Salerno (Italy). Her main publications include: Scenari della corporeità in Jean-Luc Nancy in «Quaderni di InSchibboleth» (Inschibboleth, Roma 2012); Carlo Michelstaedter: dalla bellezza alla persuasione in AA.VV., Carlo Michelstaedter e il Novecento filosofico italiano (Le Lettere, Firenze 2013); Jean-Luc Nancy. La chance comunitaria: l’esposizione del «senza progetto» in «Epékeina» (2015); Come una cometa. Saggio su Carlo Michelstaedter (Le Lettere, Firenze 2016).
The essay focuses on the city of Naples, starting from the interpretation Anna Maria Ortese makes of it in her novel Il mare non bagna Napoli. In particular, the author discusses the conflictual relationship between place, freedom and poetry. Is it possible that a magical and ancient city like Naples cannot really be a city free from misery and prejudices.
Keywords: Naples, Poetry, Sea, Freedom, Misery, Anna Maria Ortese
Is there a “new”, though not originary, form of imagination that, in the New Media era, modifies and traces the peculiarities of its own functioning in the creative process of those products of the contemporary feeling in whose creation the same imagination takes part? What is left of the freedom of this new imagination constantly “at work” while connected to a network? And what is left of the subject’s freedom that, through the technicized imagination, feels, shares and adapts to the world? This essay reflects on still open issues suggesting an interpretative key, whose nature is eminently aesthetic.
Keywords: Sharing, Imaginativity, Freedom, New Media, technicized Feeling
In this article I try to compare Croce’s absolute historicism, matured in the last century, with some nihilistic philosophies in order to grasp the element that unites them: the “death of God”, of transcendence and the end of every absolute value. In the twentieth century, while the sad season of the Gott ist tot was emerging, Calogero, Capitini, de Ruggiero e Antoni tried to replicate the problem of absolute historicism, but also to the philosophy of the crisis (Nietzsche, Heidegger), and so they rehabilitated the transcendental meaning of the “death of Jesus” with a secular sensitivity.
Keywords: Croce, Nietzsche, Historicism, Transcendence, Calogero, Sollen
Università di Salerno
is currently Assistant Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at University of Salerno (Italy). Main research topics include the concept of humanity and the concept of world. Areas of competence: philosophical anthropology, metaphysics, epistemology of human science, history of ideas. 2011-2017 he has been Vice Prasident of Helmuth Plessner Gesellschaft, an international network for the promotion of the Philosophical Anthropology. Among his publications: Il mondo. Profilo di un’idea (Mimesis, Milano 2017); Umanesimo. Storia, critica, attualità (ed. by M. Russo, Le Lettere, Firenze 2015); Al confine. Escursioni sulla condizione umana (Mimesis, Milano 2007).
It was Husserl who revived the world in the twentieth century as an eminent philosophical question. The concept of world serves to get out of the rigid subject-object scheme, to draw on a unitary dimension of the immense variety of experiences without referring to transcendent entities or metaphysical principles. The text exposes both the general problem of the world in phenomenology and its most famous declension as a “world of life”, where we find a reinterpretation of the fundamental themes of phenomenology: subject, perception, movement, time, concept, totality ... In this way we show how Husserl opened all the main paths of Weltfrage in our age.
Keywords: World, Totality, System, Horizon, Earth
Università degli Studi di Salerno
has a PhD in Political Philosophy. His studies concern modern political thinking, emphasising on the aesthetical aspect of politics. He has translated and edited the Italian editions of Jean-Luc Nancy, L’altro ritratto (Castelvecchi, Roma 2014), Id., Il disegno del Piacere (Mimesis, Milano 2017), Jacques Rancière, L’inconscio estetico (Mimesis, Milano 2016). Some of his essays are: Senza arte né parte. John Cage e Jacques Rancière, in D. Calabrò e V. Mascia (a cure di), Architetture del vivente (Le Lettere, Firenze 2015); Philosophy beyond border. Lévinas, Blanchot, Nancy, in G. Bird, D. Calabrò, D. Giugliano (ed. by), Unlimit. Rethinking the Boundaries between Philosophy, Aesthetics and Arts (Mimesis International, Milan 2017); La critica dell’economia politica nel pensiero affermativo, in E. Lisciani Petrini, G. Strummiello (a cura di), Effetto Italian Thought (Quodlibet, Macerata 2017).
In a recent book, Jean-Luc Nancy deals again, after thirty years, with Maurice Blanchot. This essay interprets Nancy going back to Blanchot as a symptom of the inability of the negative community theorists to avoid the repetition of arguments and strategies indifferent to historical becoming. Marked by the threat of totalitarianism, these philosophers have made the “community” the place of the “revolution’, that is the event that should oppose the resources of infinite power against the risk of an absolute act. This has two consequences: the inability to grasp the economic, political and symbolic changes of the last thirty years, with respect to which the “community” cannot encounter friction anymore; the shift of political discourse out of the political itself, with the aporias arising from that, especially with regard to the democratic outcome of this shift beyond political.
Keywords: Nancy, Blanchot, Arendt, Community, Revolution, Deconstruction, neo-capitalism
The aim of this paper is to develop a comparative study between Max Scheler and Henri Bergson, with regards to their conceptions of the human being. It is indeed well known that Scheler was an attentive reader of Bergson’s philosophy and that he borrowed from the French thinker some fundamental ideas, such as the notion of intuition, the pragmatist conception of perception, or the concept of life. But nowadays, the influence of Bergsonism on the development of Scheler’s philosophical anthropology remains neglected or, at best, barely examined. By relying on the concepts of living body, Bildung, and memory, this essay tries to highlight the role of Bergsonism in Scheler’s redefinition of the relation between Leben and Geist.
Keywords: Max Scheler, Henri Bergson, Living Body, Anthropology, Psychology
Università degli Studi di Salerno
Is Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Salerno, where she also teaches Theoretical Philosophy and Philosophical Theories of Mind-Body Relation. She is author of many articles and several books, including L’infanzia della filosofia. Saggio sulla filosofia dell’educazione di Maurice Merleau-Ponty (UTET, Torino 2002), Di-spiegamenti. Soggetto, corpo e comunità in Jean-Luc Nancy (Mimesis, Milano 2006), Les détours d’une pensée vivante. Transitions et changements de paradigme dans la réflexion de Roberto Esposito (Mimesis France, Paris 2012), L’ora meridiana. Il pensiero inoperoso di Jean-Luc Nancy tra ontologia, estetica e politica (Mimesis, Milano 2012), Unlimit. Rethinking the Boundaries between Philosophy, Aesthetics and Arts, coedited with G. Bird and D. Giugliano, Preface by J.-L. Nancy (Mimesis International, Milan 2017), The Correspondence. Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, (Mimesis International, Milan-Udine 2018).
Università degli Studi di Messina, †
Università degli Studi di Messina, †
Università degli Studi di Messina, †
Università degli Studi di Messina, †
Università degli Studi di Messina, †
Université de Strasbourg
is member of the Collège international de philosophie, professor of philosophy in classes préparatoires littéraires (Paris) and associated member of the Crephac (Strasbourg University). His philosophical work focuses on german and contemporary philosophy, and follows specific problems: the character and its stability, speed and immobilisation. Last books: Vitesses, (Hermann Philosophie, Paris 2011); Derrida – La justice sans condition, (Michalon, Paris 2013); Les Caractères impossibles, (Bayard, Paris 2014); Signaux sensibles, with Jean-Luc Nancy (Bayard, Paris 2017).
Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Università degli Studi di Salerno
Is Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Salerno, where she also teaches Theoretical Philosophy and Philosophical Theories of Mind-Body Relation. She is author of many articles and several books, including L’infanzia della filosofia. Saggio sulla filosofia dell’educazione di Maurice Merleau-Ponty (UTET, Torino 2002), Di-spiegamenti. Soggetto, corpo e comunità in Jean-Luc Nancy (Mimesis, Milano 2006), Les détours d’une pensée vivante. Transitions et changements de paradigme dans la réflexion de Roberto Esposito (Mimesis France, Paris 2012), L’ora meridiana. Il pensiero inoperoso di Jean-Luc Nancy tra ontologia, estetica e politica (Mimesis, Milano 2012), Unlimit. Rethinking the Boundaries between Philosophy, Aesthetics and Arts, coedited with G. Bird and D. Giugliano, Preface by J.-L. Nancy (Mimesis International, Milan 2017), The Correspondence. Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, (Mimesis International, Milan-Udine 2018).