Storia e filosofia: il dramma, la scelta, la libertà. Intervista a Michele Ciliberto
01/12/2023 Jonathan Salina XVIII (2023), 2 Intervista The aim of this interview is to consider some aspects about the work of Michele Ciliberto (1945), an important italian historian of philosophy. The main focus of the interview is to explain how in this author a meticolous attention about texts, documents and ‘scartafacci’ can live side to […]
Empatia e conflitto. Per una teoria critica dell’esperienza empatica
01/12/2023 Federica Pitillo XVIII (2023), 2 Discussione The concept of empathy has recently been the focus of two important books published in Italy: the first is Empatie. L’esperienza empatica nella società del conflitto (2018) by Laura Boella; the second is an essay by Anna Donise entitled Critica della ragione empatica. Fenomenologia dell’altruismo e della crudeltà […]
Intorno a due biografie crociane
01/12/2023 Edoardo Panei XVIII (2023), 2 Discussione The essay examines the biographies of Benedetto Croce published by Emanuele Cutinelli-Rendina (2022) and Paolo D’Angelo (2023), elucidating differences in critical perspective and referring to the latest interpretative issues in Croce’s historiography. In particular, it highlights Cutinelli-Rendina’s greater attention to the relationship between Croce’s civic engagement and his […]
La dialettica, gli opposti, i distinti e la questione del non essere. Le lettere tra Vladimiro Arangio-Ruiz e Luigi Scaravelli sul Sofista di Platone
01/12/2023 Massimiliano Biscuso XVIII (2023), 2 Documento Vladimiro Arangio-Ruiz (1887-1952) fu una figura singolare di studioso: grecista e filosofo, nella Firenze negli anni precedenti la Grande guerra fece parte di quella cerchia di giovani intellettuali (Renato Serra, Emilio Cecchi, Giovanni Amendola, Enrico Corradini, Giannotto Bastianelli, oltre ai più intimi Carlo Michelstaedter e Gaetano Chiavacci), che […]
Le aporie dell’antimetafisica. Note critiche sul pensiero di Gennaro Sasso
01/12/2023 Nicola Zippel XVIII (2023), 2 Saggio The paper aims at analyzing the reflections on truth and doxa elaborated by Gennaro Sasso in his last book Idealismo e filosofia, by referring it to the previous works, in which these reflections were born and developed. On the basis of his well-known criticism to metaphysics and its […]
Guido Calogero e la filosofia del linguaggio
01/12/2023 Marina De Palo XVIII (2023), 2 Saggio In this contribution I would like to focus on an important chapter in twentieth-century philosophical-linguistic studies that relates to Guido Calogero, a key figure in the historicist tradition and for his role in the so-called Roman school of philosophy of language. Often cited and taken up in […]
Guido Calogero e l’«altro volto» di Socrate. Il Cinismo Antico
01/12/2023 Stefano Mecci XVIII (2023), 2 Saggio Aim of my paper is to analyze, for the first time and in detail, the interpretation that Guido Calogero, a renowned Italian philosopher of the 20th century and a profound interpreter of ancient thought, provided for Cynicism. First, my aim is to examine the general features of Calogero’s […]
Homo totus anima est scripta. Scrittura e terapia nel De vita propria di Girolamo Cardano
01/12/2023 Laura Cesco Frare XVIII (2023), 2 Saggio Cardano’s posthumous reputation heavily depends on his self-portrait depicted in the De vita propria, which was filled with disturbing confessions that supported the popular notion of Cardano as a mad genius. However, Cardano claims that writing has served him as a way to keep his own anxieties […]
Su alcuni usi politici della memoria e dell’«oblivione delle cose» in Machiavelli
01/12/2023 Giulio Gisondi XVIII (2023), 2 Saggio This article reconstructs some of the main political uses of memory and the ‘oblivion of things’ in Machiavelli’s work, beginning with the brief observation on the necessity of memory in the government of a state, in De natura Gallorum, the Discourses, and the Prince. The article analyzes Machiavellian […]
La critica femminista al linguaggio neutro della teoria: Adriana Cavarero
Olivia Guaraldo XVIII (2023), 1 Saggio This essay discusses Adriana Cavarero’s feminist critique of the neutral language of philosophy and her theory of sexual difference. The notion of sexual difference – as originally developed in the work of Luce Irigaray – is crucial to Adriana Cavarero’s philosophy: the human is never neutral, but always sexed, […]
