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Introduzione
2018
Pubblicato nel quinto fascicolo di Versus. Quaderni di studi semiotici, il lungo, articolato, complesso saggio di Paolo Fabbri che qui riproponiamo appariva in un momento topico per l’investigazione sui segni, i linguaggi, il senso, la significazione
Dilettanti, fra resistenza ed estasi
2021
Who is the amateur? what does he do? what doesn't it do? And especially: what can he do and what can't he do? There is a very close connection between the problem of expert competence, today as yesterday, and that of dilettantism, yesterday as today. But it is not always the same link: the internal intensity of the relationship varies, the degree of certainty of those who assume it, the value of the terms involved. According to the Italian dictionary, a dilettante is someone who "shows little ability", therefore an incompetent subject, far from skilled, inexperienced, therefore narratively inconclusive. But if we insert this description in its appropriate context, i.e. in the complex of the…
When did biopolitics begin? : Actuality and potentiality in historical events
2022
The article addresses the ongoing debate about the origins of biopolitics. While Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics approached it as a modern rationality of government, Agamben’s Homo Sacer series presented biopolitics as having a longer provenance, dating back to the antiquity. These polar positions are not mutually exclusive but coexist in these and other theories of biopolitics, which approach its object as both modern and ancient, having its chronological origin in the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries yet also possessing a prehistory of precursors. The article interprets this dual origin in terms of Paolo Virno’s theory of historical temporality, which distinguishes between the chron…
Joanot Martorell, Tirante il Bianco, a cura di Paolo Cherchi, Torino, Einaudi, 2013
2013
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Europeismo e universalismo tra riflessioni storiche e aspirazioni politiche.
2012
The papacy of John Paul II was characterized by obvious innovations, but also by its strict continuity with predecessors. The ecumenical vocation is the most valuable contribution of the Church to "coexistence", considered not only as a balance of opposing forces, but as the acceptance of universal ethical principles on which human society was to be based. The universality of human rights, and human nature shared by all, are at the centre of the reflections of Pope John Paul II and are the necessary premise for his initiatives and respect for the coexistence of different cultures, both within Western liberal states and developing countries, in the sign of the substantial unity of mankind. H…