Yehudah Abravanel e l’eredità di Marsilio Ficino. La «teologale sapienzia» e il divino Platone
Maria Vittoria Comacchi XV (2020), 1 Saggio The purpose of this paper is to investigate the in uence of Marsilio Ficino’s renovation antiquorum on Yehudah Abravanel’s Dialoghi d’amore (1535), in order to understand Yehudah’s re-elaboration of the notion of the prisca theologia in the light of a renovated union between reason and faith or philosophy […]
Innovazioni nei modelli speculativi ebraici dell’Italia del Rinascimento. Il caso di Yochanan Alemanno
Fabrizio Lelli XV (2020), 1 Saggio In Medieval Italian Jewish education Judeo-Arabic Aristotelianism merged with the most varied Jewish mystical trends. Even the many waves of refugees fleeing to Italy from other areas of the diaspora at the end of the Middle Ages could not affect deeply the peculiar fusion of rational and anti-rational speculation […]
Luzzatto’s Socrates and the History of Jewish Philosophy
Josef Stern XV (2020), 1 Saggio This essay addresses the question where Luzzatto’s Socrate fits into the history of Jewish philosophy. For most of the paper, it argues that what characterizes Jewish philosophy within the general category of philosophy is not the language in which it is composed, the ethnic or religious identity of its […]
ἀπὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου. Le due interpretazioni della nozione tommasiana di creazione nel pensiero di Giuseppe Barzaghi
Luca Gili XVI (2021), 2 Saggio In this paper, I flesh out Giuseppe Barzaghi’s two interpretations of Aquinas’ doctrine of creation. Up until the mid-Nineties, Barzaghi accepted Aquinas’ claim that the Creator cannot be identied with the world He created. Later on, Barzaghi developed a different understanding of the relation between the Creator and His […]
Dall’estetica romana alle tecnologie dell’interazione. Mario Perniola e la logica del simulacro
Enea Bianchi XVI (2021), 2 Saggio This article develops Perniola’s standpoint on the notion of simulacrum. If the simulacrum has often been understood by scholars as a deceptive simulation, Perniola instead sees it as a strategic concept for interpreting both the contemporary world, with its virtual and digital simulations, and numerous experiences and traditions of […]
«Una commozione sui generis». Su Ernesto De Martino lettore de Il Sacro di Rudolf Otto
Francesca Ferrara XVI (2021), 2 Saggio The essay aims to highlight how Rudolf Otto’s work Das Heilige (1917) represented for Ernesto de Martino an opportunity of theoretical confrontation that runs through his entire re ection. Concepts such as «ganz Anderes», «numinous», «tremendum» and «fascinans», originally brought to attention by Otto, found in Ernesto de Martino’s […]
Croce, Gramsci e il concetto di previsione
Camilla Sclocco XVI (2021), 2 Saggio The essay proposes a philological reconstruction of the conception of the prediction of Benedetto Croce and Antonio Gramsci.The first part diachronically reconstructs the Crocean reflection on the problem of prediction from the first essays of the end of the Nineteenth century to the reflections on the predictive act of […]
Su alcune recenti pubblicazioni crociane
Jonathan Salina XIV (2019), 2 Saggio This article offers a critical discussion of some recent works dedicated to Benedetto Croce and his philosophical work. Reading some contemporary tendencies of critics about Croce, I will especially try to consider if is it possible or useful to view this thinker and his philosophical work from an only […]
La vita vista dai morti. Il dialogo tra Federico Ruysch e le sue mummie
Antonio Di Meo XIV (2019), 2 Saggio In 1824 Giacomo Leopardi’s thought enters a new phase: pleasure was no longer connected with vitality and the feelings which it provoked, but with the necessity of reducing the insurgence of vitality itself up to a point where a state similar to death or akin to sleep was […]
Italian Hacking ed eredità. La ragione costruzionista da Giambattista Vico e Luciano Floridi
Giacomo Pezzano XIV (2019), 2 Saggio In this paper, I discuss the peculiarity of the Italian philosophy of the “impure reason” by highlighting the connection between the ideas of a “classic” Italian philosopher and the works of a contemporary Italian philosopher: Giambattista Vico and Luciano Floridi. With this aim, I present a defence of “constructionism” […]
