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Francesco Affronti
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Il cuore e la ragione secondo Pascal
2018
Il saggio riflette sulla dottrina pascaliana del cuore, centro della fede e del pensiero.
Il mito smussato: Gli abbracci spezzati di Almodovar
2016
Almodóvar's Los abrazos rotos explores the possibilities of cinema to represent the holy contents of the myth. According to two modes of its expression (reflection and the unseen), we can see the implementation of a blunt myth. The myth is attenuated in its produced or spectacular content, with a focus on the symbol and on minesis. The myth reveals but it does not exhibit itself. It seems that the transcendent could be represented using the irony of those who proves the innuendo. The myth is given through the blindness which denies mimesis and shows its more peculiar contents in a blunted way.
Recensione di Utopie e realtà
2016
Review of Cuozzo's book. The book starts from an analysis of social and political reality, with forays into the world of advertising and cinematography, in the ecological debate and even in the consumer variants of the wonderful country of Oz (because the storytelling magicians, today, are really many). With it the author tries to answer the following questions: is it still possible to hope today? what is utopia in the face of the harsh reality that surrounds us? what meaning can melancholy and the desire for what is missing in a world invaded by technology and dominated by commodity still have? Utopias and reality suggests exploring reality with a new look; as the great painters teach, fir…
Soggetto in quanto corpo
2016
According to Anders, technology replaces human body, in fact it is more powerful than physicality which can’t be shaped. Technology imposes itself on human body while human beings are ashamed of their one. Reduction of the body destroys humanity of human being and its scale of values. According to Heidegger, the vocation of technology is to impose itself and to be independent from man, but it supports life and nature. Even neurobiology offers a duality between higher cognitive activities of mind and the part of the brain connected to emotions. Both technology and higher activity of mind seem to propose a transcendence of the body. But the aesthetic fruition of photography reconfigures human…
La mano del diavolo e il cuore di Pascal
2018
This paper aims to analyze the concept of fear in La main du diable, a movie of Maurice Tourneur. The film shows the Faustian pact between a bad artist and the devil. The pact concerns a wretched hand, and the obsession that will lead the protagonist to free it. The director has been able to show two kinds of fear, which, taken in isolation, seem to be a chiasm: the fear of death, which is afraid of a condition of life that leads to death (misery, failure, lack of love), and the fear of life, which is afraid of eternity, of an eternal suffering, of a life that does not remedy the loss of one's being. And these fears are afraid of the image and fear of the lack of image. The heart's reasons …
Recensione di “Storie di donne nel Medioevo” di Maria Teresa Brolis
2017
Review of M.T. Brolis, Storie di donne nel medioevo
La negazione dell'anti-popolo: Der ewige Jude di Fritz Hippler
2017
This paper focuses on a Nazi propaganda's film, Der ewige Jude, directed by F. Hippler. The movie is a classic of anti-Semitism but the idea of eternal Jew and his opposition to the Aryan people least breaks out of a discrepancy. For Nazi ideology Jew is not being a people, not being a form. Truly, it is an anti-people, all but an not being, it is shapeless. But the cinema produces images, insofar as this is a shape; so, what Nazism recognizes to His own people, and denies it to Jew, the form as such, the movie attributes it to him.
Recensione di “Il canone minore. Verso una filosofia della natura”
2017
Review of Rocco Ronchi's book.
Nel labirinto della metafisica. Gli sviluppi possibili (e auspicabili) della metafisica nel XXI secolo
2019
The present and future of metaphysics in the 21st century: in the book edited by Enrique Romerales some world-class metaphysical philosophers confront each other and converse with us about what metaphysics is today. Analytical and continental philosophers show some considerations on the general and particular topics of metaphysics: e.g. what is the relationship between metaphysics and ontology? What advances can there be in reflection of metaphysics? The answers are very different but all the authors share the conviction that metaphysics is inescapable: the center of philosophical thought is metaphysics. The papers contained in the book offer the chance to examine and reflect upon such matt…
PENSARE LA CONCILIAZIONE. IL CONCETTO DI CUORE IN PASCAL
2021
La tesi di dottorato mira a mostrare il metodo e al tempo stesso il contenuto prezioso del cuore nella filosofia di Blaise Pascal. Il cuore suggerisce nella filosofia, nella lettura proposta, il tema della "conciliazione". Il tema del cuore infatti mostra non tanto o non solo una opposizione con la ragione, ma un accrescimento della ragione stessa, ovvero un recupero di quella dimensione patica che il razionalismo moderno tende a mettere da parte. This thesis aims to show the method and at the same time the precious content of the heart in the philosophy of Blaise Pascal. The heart proposes the theme of conciliation in philosophy. The theme of the heart in fact shows not an opposition with …