Search results for "Postmodern"

Comparative Decadence? Male Queerness in Late Nineteenth- and Late Twentieth-Century Fiction

2018

Emig’s chapter compares Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library. After outlining the different historical contexts of queer masculinity in the novels, it points out parallels, such as its legal repression in late Victorianism and at the time of the AIDS crisis under Thatcher. Wilde’s novel provokes with homoerotic longing, Hollinghurst’s with pornographic depictions of gay sex. Both texts are decadent fantasies, yet also criticise double standards of hegemonic masculinity and heteronormativity. Hollinghurst’s novel further exposes its Wildean subtext as class-ridden and colonial. In addition, the scandalous male as narcissistic consumer of …

Overcoming Postmodernity? Reconsidering Animal Life from Heidegger to Derrida

2018

In this paper, I would like to approach the question of language as crucial for the difference between human and non-human animals in the scenario cast by contemporary continental philosophy. I would also like to use this and other topics as a chance to take some general considerations on postmodernity into account, the latter intended as the historical condition in which we are supposed to live.

Postmoderno e soggettività. Tra filosofia e sociologia

2012

Vicente Verdú y nuestras miserias

2006

Dis-Identity: New Forms of Identity and Psychopathology—Socioanthropological Changes and Self-Development

2014

The passage from modernity to postmodernity deeply upset the group dimension, and, consequently, personal identity itself. Transformations involving the entire planet, socioanthropological changes our society had to cope with, are producing a change in the dynamics of identity formation and the appearance of new psychopathological figures. The loss of cohesion of the sense of belonging and the weak internalization process of the elements that form the individual identity (cultural, linguistic, religious traditions, etc.) draw an essentially uncertain and temporary existence. Drawing on some themes of subjectual group analysis theory of personality, the article proposes the concept of dis-id…

Evolutionity – A New Age of Humanity: On the Concept of Human Evolution by Hoene-Wroński

2018

In this article, I present the concept of human evolution by Jozef Hoene-Wronski. I believe that his ideas are still an unexplored resource which can lead us to the better understanding of the evolution of humanity and of our human destiny. Hoene-Wronski has boldly challenged the deterministic picture of the world emerging from modern science and has derived human evolution from the moral and rational development of human beings. I follow closely his discussion of human evolution and describe its seven stages. Further, I argue that the case of human evolution is strongly supported by new scientific theories, especially by quantum theory and the novel perspectives that it opens for humankind…

Foucault, posverdad y parresia

2019

In this paper, Vaccaro aims to interrogate the political value of truth. Moving from Hannah Arendt and the debate between modernity and postmodernity, the paper focus the Will to truth according the elaboration of Nietzsche, but also the first Collège de France course by Foucault in the ’70s. The thesis is a etho-politics of telling the truth, that to say the parrhesia, as an antidote either to the nihilation of truth in the post-truth, or to the enforcement of truth as the One in politics.

Postmodern impegno. Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture

2010

Recensione a P. Antonello, F. Mussgnug (a cura di), Postmodern impegno. Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture, Peter Lang, Bern, 2009

Social Harmony or a Happy Society

2021

In this paper, I set out to prove that once we correctly identify human nature and organize our world according to the principle of cooperation, we can arrive at a world of social harmony. We can then engage in conscious human evolution, aiming at moral and intellectual perfection. Hence, we can arrive at evolutionity, a new evolutionary epoch which would replace the current conflicting and disharmonious times of postmodernity. The current world disharmony, which can be observed especially in the field of politics and economics, is largely related to the erroneous modern Western philosophical assertions identifying the human being with an individual moved by desires and the will to power, a…

El final de la historia a la luz de la utopía política. Entre Fukuyama y Jameson

2017

En este artículo voy a interpretar el significado del final de la historia decretado de manera dispar por Fukuyama y Jameson desde el ángulo de la utopía política moderna. A partir de cuantiosos fragmentos procedentes de novelas utópicas, mostrare como las sociedades ideales imaginadas durante la modernidad tuvieron por cimiento el final de la historia, incidencia que se plasmaba en la propagación de una temporalidad circunscrita al presente. Analizando con la ayuda de la bibliografía filosófica y sociólogica adecuada los fenómenos actuales relativos al ethos posthistórico, mostrare como nuestros días se encuentran a merced de patrones temporales muy semejantes. La conclusión principal a la…