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Tra immanenza e trascendenza. Saggi teologico-politici su e oltre Carl Schmitt
2019
L’Occidente e l’Europa stanno attraversando oggi una fase di grande trasformazione dovuta a fattori di tipo economico, politico e culturale. Anche la Chiesa cattolica, sempre più proiettata sotto Papa Francesco su uno scenario globale, è partecipe di questi rivolgimenti di cui nessuno è in grado di calcolare gli esiti ultimi. Alcune categorie elaborate dal giurista cattolico tedesco Carl Schmitt possono offrire una prospettiva interessante per affrontare le varie questioni sul tappeto dalle quali dipende il futuro dell’Europa, della Chiesa cattolica e della cultura occidentale
IL RITORNO DEL RIMOSSO. CARL SCHMITT E L’ULTIMO HABERMAS
2018
In this essay, I propose to look at Habermas’ recent work like an implicit recognition of the theoretical value of some Carl Schmitt’s ideas. Regardless of the harsh criticism that Habermas manifests towards Schmitt’s political theology in his latest essays.
Christianity and Enlightenment: Two hermeneutical approaches to their relationship
2016
This essay explains how its attitude to the Enlightenment has produced a dichotomy within contemporary Catholicism between a conservatism approach which is hostile to modernity and a political theology assimilating the Enlightenment legacy to express Christian values in social practise.
Religione e razionalità comunicativa. Juergen Habermas e la " Nuova Teologia Politica"
2015
Jürgen Habermas’ recent work is focused on the relationship between reason and faith in what he suggest that we should name post-secular society. Habermas argues that traditional religions such as Christianity can have semantic contents very useful to uphold a moral motivation in order to contrast the instrumental reason of the globalized markets. I will try to show that these recent developments of Habermas’ theories risk to conflict with some elements of his previous approach. As a consequence, I suggest that we carefully look to the critiques that the catholic theologian J. B. Metz made to Habermas’ previous approach. In fact, I argue that Metz’s proposal of a “New Political Theology”, w…
Some Philosophical Remarks on the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’
2016
In this paper, I aim at interpreting the project of the encyclical as a sort of paradigmatic turn in the way of conceiving Christian faith. At paragraph 49, it is underlined that a “true ecological approach always becomes a social approach” and this implies the need of hearing “both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor”. In my view, by uniting the two categories of “nature/creation” and “poverty”, the encyclical implicitly builds an ideal bridge between Pope Francis’ paradigmatic turn and that “political turn” invoked by the Catholic theologian J. B. Metz from the end of the sixties through the proposal of a “New Political Theology”. Indeed, the excesses of the neo-liberal paradigm …
Giordano Bruno: quanto può una vita?
2020
Giuliano Montaldo’s Giordano Bruno is a biopic that marks a turn in the history of Italian biographical cinema. This essay analyses this movie in the light of Bruno’s thought, highlighting its relevance for the present “biographical turn” as well as the importance of film theory and practice in the framework of the so-called “Italian Thought”. By considering them as strictly intertwined, the essay aims at underlying the crucial theoretical role played by biopics in the definition of specific key concepts of the present time.
Cristianesimo e modernità politica. il problema teologico-politico nell'ultimo Kant
2021
In this paper I will analyse the religious issue in the late Kantian work. I argue that Kant’s reflections on Christianity have to be strictly connected with those on law and history. This connection lead us to the political theological problem which is crucial in the case of Hegel as well. In the Encyclopedia Hegel explicitly takes inspiration from Kant who thinks that the problem of that age is the relation between religion and law. That is why Kant cannot be considered a liberal thinker because religion is not a mere private question for him but it has a public importance within his modern conception of history. In this sense, I also argue that Kant’s judg-ment on Christianity is more ne…
Islamic Political Theology
2021
Can we affirm that a political theology exists in Islam? This apparently simple question is the core of Massimo Capanini and Marco Di Donato's edited collection of essays. Considering the wide range of meanings of political theology this book contains essays written by different authors having their own, specific, and specialized, point of view on the topics, from Shia and Sunni political thought, to Islamic classic philosophy, and philosophers until arriving at contemporary Muslim thinkers.