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The book examines the formation of a philosophical and religious idea of testimony in antiquity by focusing on some selected texts from Plato, the Bible and Augustine. Then it studies the emergence of the literary notion of testimony by... more
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      TestimonyItalian StudiesItalian LiteraturePrimo Levi
– This paper aims to anlyze the figure of Christ in the philosophy of Giuseppe Capograssi (1889-1956), with particular attention to three of his works: Saggio sullo Stato (1918), Analisi dell'esperienza comune (1930), Introduzione alla... more
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      PhilosophyItalian StudiesContemporary Italian PhilosophyItalian Philosophy
A 80 anni dalla morte di Antonio Gramsci, «Filosofia Italiana» intende tracciare, in un fascicolo monografico, un bilancio delle ricerche più recenti sul suo pensiero. Pur riservando una particolare attenzione ai temi e ai nessi più... more
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      Cultural StudiesGender StudiesAnthropologyPhilosophy
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      Immanuel KantKant & neo-KantianismItalian MarxismItalian Philosophy
The present paper intends to focus on the laic dimension of the trinitarian principle, analys-ing – in particular – some passages of Antonio Rosmini’s Theosophy. The main thesis is that in the Italian thinker there is a laic way to... more
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      ReligionPhilosophyPhilosophy Of ReligionTheology
La questione dell’autorità, tema classico delle filosofie dell’educazione, del diritto e della politica, non pare aver trovato altrettanta attenzione da parte della filosofia morale. Tale difetto di interesse potrebbe avere a che fare con... more
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      EthicsGiambattista VicoLibertyItalian Philosophy
Erfurt (DE), 13th-14th May 2020, Bildungshaus "St. Ursula", in collaboration with Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bonn) and Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien (Erfurt)
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      Political PhilosophyHistory of ReligionHistory of ChristianityRevolutions
Moderno ed epico Icaro dell’antifascismo liberale, Lauro de Bosis perde la vita, a nemmeno trent’anni, a seguito del volo su Roma la sera del 3 ottobre 1931. Già segretario esecutivo dell’Italy America Society e conferenziere nelle... more
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      Italian PhilosophyBenedetto CroceTheoretical PhilosophyFilosofia Teoretica
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      AestheticsEmmanuel KantKant & neo-KantianismItalian Philosophy
Is the subject self-evident? Is it possible for philosophy to reach the absolute source of subjectivity that lies behind it? Is this source immanent or transcendent to individuals? Plotino and Gentile provide two different answers to... more
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      PhilosophyPhenomenologyGilles DeleuzeHenri Bergson
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      ReligionIntellectual HistoryCultural HistoryCultural Studies
da AA.VV., Il Novecento di Eugenio Garin, Giornale critico della filosofia italiana, Le Lettere, 2009.
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      Italian PhilosophyIntellettuali italiani
Con il supporto dei principali studi critici e alla luce della ricca documentazione (lettere, appunti, opera grafica e pittorica), alla quale si aggiungono nuovi materiali inediti, questa biografia ripercorre il dramma umano del filosofo... more
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      PhilosophyItalian PhilosophyCarlo Michelstaedter
This collection of studies and essays, originally delivered at a conference held at Stony Brook University, NY, in December, 2015, but greatly recast and expanded, examines aspects of the large footprint Dante has left in Western... more
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      Italian (European History)Dante StudiesContinental PhilosophyMartin Heidegger
The first ruler of Ancient China in 247 B.C. An Italian political philosopher in 1513 A.D. Two men, born into radically different cultures, thousands of miles away, nearly two millennia apart, and yet, the similarities between their... more
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      Comparative PoliticsPolitical PhilosophyChinese PhilosophyChinese Studies
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      Feminist TheoryFeminist Literary Theory and Gender StudiesItalian Philosophy
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      Italian PhilosophyNineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy
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      Political Philosophy17th Century & Early Modern PhilosophyHistory of IdeasEarly Modern History
El nombre de Averroes circuló, históricamente, como una palabra maldita, como una parte impía de Occidente: un peligro del cual se debe abjurar. Sin embargo, una de las razones por las que el averroísmo fue imposible de conjurar es porque... more
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      OntologyFashion TheoryIbn Rushd (Averroës)Italian Philosophy
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      Medieval PhilosophyItalian PhilosophyRenaissance magic and astrology
This article evaluates Furio Jesi's conception of mythic violence, focusing in particular on his theory of revolt as a mode of collective experience qualitatively distinct from that of revolution. Jesi offers both a descriptive... more
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      Critical TheoryPolitical TheoryItalian PhilosophyContemporary Continental Philosophy
Introduzione a "Tiresia contro Edipo. Vite di un intellettuale disorganico" di Mario Perniola
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      AestheticsContemporary ArtAutobiographyAutobiographical Self-Representation
chapter 8 of the book
Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Era. Essays in Intellectual History, Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2014
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      Jewish StudiesJewish ThoughtEarly Modern ItalyJewish Philosophy
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      European StudiesPolitical PhilosophyContemporary PhilosophyItalian Philosophy
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      TheatreNiccolò MachiavelliItalian Philosophy
Long since out of print, this volume collects 23 original essays by Agamben, Colli, Girard, Harrison (RP and T), Magris, Montinari, Nancy, Serres, Vattimo, and others.
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      Critical TheoryPhilosophyAestheticsPolitical Philosophy
Gianni Vattimo e Emanuele Severino sono due filosofi italiani contemporanei che si sono confrontati, spesso in modo critico, con il cristianesimo. Il presente lavoro analizza le due posizioni e cerca di individuare il ruolo che il... more
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      MetaphysicsPhilosophy Of ReligionTheologyItalian Philosophy
The peculiar contribute of the linguist and philosopher Tullio De Mauro (1932-2017) to the Italian Philosophy of Language
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      Philosophy Of LanguageItalian StudiesItalian Cultural StudiesContemporary Italian Philosophy
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      Giorgio AgambenRoberto EspositoAgambenItalian Philosophy
This paper offers a discussion of the role played by the philosophy of language in the post-Operaist critique of contemporary capitalism, focussing specifically on the relation between language and questions of labour and value. It argues... more
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      Philosophy Of LanguagePolitical PhilosophyLanguages and LinguisticsMarxism
Cronache dai corpi nel diritto sotto stress
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      Constitutional LawInternational StudiesPhilosophy Of LawItalian Politics
This Introductory Essay presents a general survey of Benedetto Croce's life and work to the general reader. Croce, one of the twentieth century's Italian Idealist philosophers, is a notoriously difficult thinker to understand if he is not... more
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      PhilosophyPhilosophy of MindPhilosophy Of LanguageContinental Philosophy
Il presente volume è dedicato a uno dei concetti centrali dell’universo teorico e poetico di Giacomo Leopardi: l’immaginazione. Indagare l’immaginazione, infatti, significa analizzare i rapporti tra la filosofia e poesia, l’amore, la... more
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      PlatoPoetryFriedrich NietzscheGiacomo Leopardi
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      HegelGerman ExpressionismNihilismContemporary Italian Philosophy
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      Political TheoryContinental PhilosophyComparative mythologyItalian Philosophy
The paper raises some of the foundamental issues of Machiavelli's thought, focusing on the challenge that this thought issued to ethics. Consisting of three parts, the paper starts with an inquiry into the misfortune of Machiavelli: as... more
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      PhilosophyMoral PhilosophyMachiavelliMoral and Political Philosophy
Taking the cue from some of Lucio Colletti's unpublished letters and writings , this article will focus on Colletti's work from the 1967-1973 period. Here, Col-letti interprets Marx's theory of value in terms of a «real abstraction»-i.e.... more
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      MarxismCapitalismMarxist theoryItalian Marxism
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      Contemporary Italian PhilosophyItalian PhilosophyFilosofia ItalianaDiego Fusaro
L’intento del lavoro che il presente testo riassume brevemente è condurre uno studio sui temi dell’immaginazione e della creazione poetica in Leopardi e Nietzsche, in relazione alle teorie gnoseologiche dei due pensatori. Per entrambi... more
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      PhilologyAestheticsPoetryFriedrich Nietzsche
The author suggests a reading of Leopardi’s thought focused on politics: all Leopardi’s interests are directed towards politics, history, practical transformation. At least until the first draft (1824) of the Operette morali, the... more
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      History of Political ThoughtLeopardiGiacomo LeopardiItalian Philosophy
The paper presents the history of Italian scholars and research centres that contributed to the emergence of the analytic philosophy of language in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century. After a brief description of the work... more
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      Philosophy Of LanguageContemporary Italian PhilosophyPhilosophy of Language (Humanities)Italian Philosophy
On Carlo Michelstaedter's central notion of "persuasione" and its meaning within his philosophy
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      RhetoricSchopenhauerNihilismPhilosophy of Rhetoric
«In generale, l'eterotopia ha come regola quella di giustapporre in un luogo reale più spazi che normalmente sarebbero, dovrebbero essere incompatibili», asserisce Foucault in conferenza radio-fonica, «il più antico esempio di eterotopia... more
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      ReligionPhilosophyPhilosophy Of ReligionHistory of Christianity
This article aims to observe Walter Benjamin’s reception and interpretation in Furio Jesi’s work. The task of interpretation is a political matter, a question of deploying texts on the cultural battlefield, in order to create a future... more
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      Walter BenjaminTranslation and InterpretationSoren KierkegaardItalian Philosophy
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      EpistemologyPhilosophy of Social ScienceQuentin MeillassouxItalian Philosophy
La tesi di questo saggio è che la filosofia di E. Severino può essere letta come il rovesciamento simmetrico dell'attualismo di Gentile, a prescindere dal fatto che per Severino Gentile rappresenti la punta estrema del nichilismo. La... more
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      Italian PhilosophyEmanuele SeverinoGiovanni GentileOntologia
In a few notes of Prison Notebooks written starting from 1932, Antonio Gramsci defines the «philosophy of praxis» as «absolute historicism». The aim of this paper is to clarify the meaning of conceiving Marxism as historicism, the meaning... more
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      MarxismGramsciItalian PhilosophyFilosofía Italiana
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      Philosophy Of LanguageMarxismPraxisGramsci
La tesi di laurea La ‘via italiana’ alla metafisica. Il neoclassicismo di Gustavo Bontadini è, come già si propone di indicare il titolo, ancor prima che uno studio monografico sul pensiero del grande metafisico milanese, il tentativo di... more
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      Italian PhilosophyEmanuele SeverinoMetafísicaOntologia
"The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic reductions, making efforts at reconciliation impossible. Yet more... more
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      ChristianitySecularizationGianni VattimoReligion and Modernity