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Stoic pragmatist ethics in the time of pandemic
2021
Abstract The present paper is a response, of sorts, to the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID) and lockdown that we all must face. We have an idea of what doctors, nurses, teachers, among many of the other professions, do for the general public, but one may ask whether there is something substantial that philosophers and ethicists can offer in these circumstances. The thesis of this paper is that the stoic attitude towards times of trouble and the pragmatist way of finding out what is possible to elevate the quality of living against all odds, if skilfully interwoven, could be an important tool in keeping mental health in good shape and, additionally, could contribute to the cult…
Faut-il provincialiser les Lumières
2013
OS nat; National audience; no abstract
Intellettuali siciliani fascisti e antifascisti
2019
Once the empire was over, with the fascist conquest of Ethiopia in 1936, imperialists had to be done. To drag the country into this miraculous palingenesis, fascism strengthened its alliance with the Church, emancipated itself from the diarchy with the Crown, concentrated military command on itself, sought a new constitutional formula of the State that would allow it to "last", he set up the project of a new state of the regions, started the legal system of racist and anti-Semitic inequality, abandoned what remained of the legality of the Statute replacing it with the principle of the will of the leader, tried to return to radical origins by assaulting the latifundium and finally set off on…
Una nación descamisada : Ortega y Gasset y su idea de España durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918)
2015
Ortega dedicó una atención algo escasa a la Primera Guerra Mundial en sus escritos. Pero para él la guerra fue una posibilidad de pensar la posibilidad de regeneración de la nación española . Estuvo menos interesado en escoger campos entre los aliados o Alemania que en lamentar los efectos de la neutralidad para España (en 1914 como en 1918). Esta equidistancia revisable fue, además, su manera de crearse un lugar en el campo de fuerzas intelectual y en la esfera política.Ortega insistió siempre en que la neutralidad, si era fruto de la debilidad, era la peor cosa que podía sucederle a España, pues la condenaba a la periferia de la toma de decisiones internacionales. Era causa y a la vez efe…
Articular la nación. La María de Ayguals de Izco y la nacionalización española (1845-1850)
2017
Los estudios más recientes sobre el nacionalismo subrayan el carácter narrativo de las identidades nacionales y la necesidad de cuestionar los modelos teóricos elitistas de construcción nacional. En el texto parto de estas propuestas y del concepto de "articulación" de Michael Kennedy y Ronald Suny para estudiar la interacción que se produce María, la hija de un jornalero (1845-1846) de Wenceslao Ayguals de Izco. Estudio la nacionalización que lleva a cabo Ayguals de determinados lenguajes (honor, amor, religión) que eran fácilmente reconocibles por sus lectores. Posteriormente analizo las estrategias narrativas que utiliza y que pudieron contribuir a que la novela fuera leída nacionalmente…
2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st century
2000
2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st century
Gustav Radbruch, a left-wing jurist under the Weimar Republic
2011
What did it mean to be a left-wing jurist under the Weimar Republic? This study attempts to answer this question through the example of Gustav Radbruch (1878-1949), legal philosopher, but also Social-Democratic activist, supporter of the Republic and for some time Member of Parliament and Justice Minister. Even though he is not as well-known as Hans Kelsen or Carl Schmitt,, Radbruch participated in all the important legal debates of his time – debates which reflected the most significant issues of that time of crisis, the Weimar Republic. By analyzing the way in which Radbruch responded to the challenges of the crisis of law and democracy, this study tries to contribute to a better comprehe…
La crise des intellectuels et ses avatars dans "Les Mandarins" de Simone de Beauvoir
2022
In the novel The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir shows the crisis of French intellectuals, namely writers facing ideological and political dilemmas after World War Two. Reflecting on the usefulness of their works, the main protagonists ask the fundamental question, namely why / for what to write and act. In the writer’s optics, two solutions are possible. On the one hand, the commitment, and the need for being aware of situations and actions. On the other hand, the idea of the autonomy of literature. This opposition seems to cause a failure of common expectations and hopes, conformism, collapse of values as well as love failures. The history of “broken illusions” of a known milieu allows the …
Istruzione e produzione nei Quaderni del carcere
2019
In questo scritto, verranno interrogati alcuni paragrafi dei Quaderni del carcere di Gramsci relativi alla questione dell’istruzione, mostrandone i nessi con paragrafi dedicati all’industrialismo fordista e alle trasformazioni economico-produttive dei primi decenni del Novecento. Verrà, così, evidenziata la presenza, nei Quaderni, di un isomorfismo lessicale tra discorso sulla scuola e discorso sulla produzione e sulle mutazioni antropologiche consustanziali all’affermazione del fordismo. Per farlo, ci si soffermerà, tra le altre cose, sulla figura della scuola unica/unitaria per la prima volta evocata nel Quaderno 1 e poi approfondita nei Quaderni 4 e 12.
An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman: How to Turn the Word into Flesh
2017
Deceased in January this year, the Polish-British sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has left an extremely rich scholarly legacy. In one of his last academic interviews, he refers to the key issues which had been the subject of his in-depth analysis for many years. Bauman starts with reflections on the gap between political authority and power. Next, given his long-standing research into ‘liquid modernity’, he focuses on the vitality of capitalism, which has now adopted a lighter, consumer form. Another thread of the interview is Bauman’s own research attitude, which he refers to as ‘sociological hermeneutics’. It is characterized by his reluctance to use any ‘-isms’ and a profound mistrust of all…