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Plasticità e metamorfosi. Riflessioni a partire da Il tempo ritrovato di Marcel Proust
2023
Il racconto della matinée organizzata della principessa Guermantes ne "Il tempo ritrovato", ultimo volume della Ricerca del tempo perduto di Proust, ci consente di confrontarci con ciò che la filosofa francese contemporanea Catherine Malabou definisce il "paradosso dell'invecchiamento". Si tratta di una modalità di metamorfosi che secondo la pensatrice definisce il fenomeno tipicamente umano della plasticità e che ci consente di comprendere l’intimo nesso fra letteratura, filosofia e biologia.
Accidenti plastici. Quando la plasticità distruttrice crea nuove identità formali
2019
In conseguenza di gravi traumi, talvolta per un nonnulla, la storia di ognuno di noi può subire un radicale cambiamento: la vita che avevamo progettato per anni è costretta a una deviazione improvvisa e irreversibile. Dal trauma sorge una personalità nuova, senza precedenti. Una personalità nata da un incidente, nata per accidente. Il fortuito diviene così sostanziale e l’inaspettato s’inscrive nel nucleo può profondo del nostro essere. Affrontando con delicatezza il tema dell’impatto che i traumi psicofisici possono avere sulla nostra vita, Catherine Malabou intraprende un’avventura filosofica e letteraria in cui Spinoza, Deleuze e Freud incrociano Ovidio, Kafka, Proust e Duras disegnando …
Plasticity
2023
Although the expression πλαστική τέχνη has Greek origins, the derivative term Plasticity enters European languages only in the Modern Age and it is strictly linked to the domain of art. Notably, Plasticity is the art of manipulating a ductile substance (like wax) to create a work of art or a three-dimensional preparatory model. Aesthetics was concerned with this concept mostly referring to that definition, the fulcrum of a key text of eighteenth-century reflection, the Plastik of Herder. Today this concept has again become central in the aesthetic field thanks to Catherine Malabou – a student of Derrida and one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary French debate –, in whose refle…
Il corpo come opera plastica: Catherine Malabou e le metamorfosi del corporeo
2019
Performance art (like Orlan’s “Carnal Art”) involves artist body in the performance itself and it is based on a clear phenomenological assumption: we “do not have” a body, but we “are” our body, we are our “sculpture”. Fascinated by the enigmas of change, Aesthetics has sought to address the metaphysical question concerning metamorphosis and the problem of identity persistence in change; the solution has been found for centuries in the opposition between essence and appearance: as highlighted by fantastic literature (Ovid, Apuleius, Kafka), in metamorphosis the “substance” remains unchanged and only appearance (or accident) changes. However, the reflection carried out by Catherine Malabou o…
Is aesthetic mind a plastic mind? Reflections on Goethe and Catherine Malabou
2019
What is the relationship between thinking and seeing a form? In his morphological writings Goethe answers this question by saying that seeing is not pure passivity, but a thoughtful look because it invokes the mobility and plasticity of our thinking. For this reason this kind of aesthetic gaze is useful to understand the world of life, equally mobile and plastic. In this article, I will try to find out whether Goethe’s considerations about aesthetic idea and plasticity can find a new-look in the reflections of Catherine Malabou, one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary French debate, in whose works the concept of plastic form is central.
Stratificazione ontologica e fluidità del reale
2013
The question of reality implies the necessity of declaring a principle of reality. Thus, it means the necessity of declaring a principle of existence. Through the adoption of a wide criterion like that of intentional existence following up on Quine’s accounts, the question is reformulated as a question concerning not what but how being is. Using Bauman’s concept of liquidity in an ontological manner and discussing Malabou’s notion of plasticity, the form as essence is seen in its possibility of being receptive and fluid and not ontologically static or stiff. Facing a stratified reality, we need to insert phenomenology and hermeneutics into metaphysics or rather rediscover the originary phen…