Search results for "Politics"

Romanzo di uno scandalo. La Banca Romana tra finzione e realtà

2018

Scoppiato alla fine del 1892, il caso politico-finanziario della Banca Romana resta uno dei più memorabili scandali istituzionali di tutti i tempi. Portò a galla le magagne di un’intera classe dirigente, minacciò di travolgere personaggi del calibro di Crispi e Giolitti, culminò in un processo oscillante tra il melodramma e la farsa, concluso da un verdetto surreale. D’altra parte, fu denunciato da una minoranza parlamentare agguerrita, mobilitò l’opinione pubblica, mise in luce non solo le debolezze ma anche le risorse della democrazia rappresentativa. Zeppo di figure pittoresche, coincidenze spiazzanti e misteri irrisolti, attirò l’interesse sia di autori come Zola e Pirandello sia di scr…

Widerspruch als konstitutives Element der Wissensvermittlung in literarischen Texten des späten 16. Jahrhunderts

2019

In the second half of the sixteenth century, the transfer of knowledge is a con- flict situation: on the one hand, there is a generalised thirst for knowledge but, on the other, a fear of the circulation of new ideas on the part of both the secular and religious authorities. This was especially the case with regard to informa- tion related to the areas of medicine, astronomy, and alchemy-magic which was banned or censored. This paper argues that many authors relied on a Poetics of Contradiction in order to be able to transmit this information. Despite appa- rently opposing statements or thanks to their apparent opposition, they trans- mitted a meaningful message and allowed attentive, eliti…

Al-dawla al-fatimiyya: Politics, history and the re-interpretation of Islam

2011

This study focuses on the ways and forms through which Mu’ammar al- _ Kadhdha¯fı¯ reproposes the opportunity of a proclamation (i’la¯n) of the second dawla fa¯timiyya in North Africa, in the framework of history, politics and re-interpretation of Islam. This topic has been scarcely studied by Western scholars and analysts interested in the thinking and political action of the leader of Tripoli. My intention, here, is to highlight, though briefly, the peculiar modalities and forms through which al- _ Kadhdha¯fı¯ re-reads history in general, and the history of the dawla fa¯timiyya in particular, by taking into account the political and ideological choices of the Libyan leadership. In conducti…

Elisa Coda (a cura di), Scienza e opinione nella città perfetta. Letture del pensiero etico-politico di al-Fārābī.

2020

Anthropological reflections on breastfeeding between care and culture

2017

Breastfeeding is a practice so far unobtrusively studied by cultural and medical anthropology, an act placed between nature and culture, between private and social women spheres and which, like birth and pregnancy. It expresses hierarchies in roles and gender relations among biopolitical dynamics which denote the organization of society itself. As a cultural practice, breastfeeding differs itself on the basis of the social and ethnic belonging of the mother and the child, leading to ritual differences such as the law of the “kinship of milk” in muslim societies or the apothecary taboo of Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper reflects on how much this is occurring in Western society where breastfeed…

Persona e fondamenti dello Stato in Giorgio La Pira

2023

The contribution reconstructs the philosophical contribution offered by Giorgio La Pira to the realization of the Republican constitution

Ecologia integrale? Etica, economia e politica in dialogo

2020

Recensione: C. Ciancio, G. Goisis, V. Possenti, F. Totaro (a cura di), Persona. Centralità e prospettive

2022

Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape. Appearances of the “Political”

2022

This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the authors explore how embedded powers in politics, education, democracy, and landscape are analyzed through aesthetics.

Religion and Politics

2022

Religious beliefs often determine the life within communities. Therefore, religion often also has political implications and the interrelationship between politics and religiously motivated considerations play an important role for the daily life of many people around the globe. Very often, political leaders also tie their own measures and their respective interpretation to some kind of religious mission or interpretation of the past as well as the future. It is therefore more than important to take a closer look at the intertwined relationship between religion and politics. This issue of Global Humanities intends to do that and therefore spans different geographical and chronological conte…