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Idean politiikka : Arendt ja Badiou

2013

Politics of the Idea: (Anti-)Platonic Politics in Arendt and Badiou

2020

This paper compares two influential but conflicting contemporary models of politics as an activity: those of Hannah Arendt and Alain Badiou. It discovers the fundamental difference between their approaches to politics in their opposing evaluations of the contemporary political significance of the legacy of Plato, Platonism, and the Platonic Idea. Karl Popper’s and Arendt’s analyses of the inherently ideological nature of totalitarianism are contrasted with Badiou’s vindication of an ideological “politics of the Idea.” Arendt and Badiou are shown to share an understanding of politics as a realm for the human deployment of novelty and world-transformation. Their key disagreement concerns the …

Dialogues on Bakhtin : interdisciplinary readings

1998

The ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin have received a great amount of scholarly interest both in his homeland and in the West, giving rise to a special discipline devoted to the study of the legacy of the Bakhtin Circle. Despite the huge amount of material published on Bakhtin, the appropriation of Bakhtin’s ideas has remained a rather controversial issue, and thus, there are competing views, especially between Russian and Western scholars, on what Bakhtin’s project was. Furthermore, the relevance of Bakhtin is not limited to ’Bakhtinology proper’, nor to literary criticism, cultural studies, and philosophy, which are traditionally considered Bakhtin’s home ground. It has become trendy to apply Bakh…

The legal balance between liberty and equality

2021

The paper explores the specific legal balance between liberty and equality, distinguishing it from political theories and constitutional settings, where they are often considered in opposition. In order to find the specific legal balance between liberty and equality, and after identifying some of their relevant meanings for the purpose, it becomes necessary to focus on the rule of law, and to examine the relationship between liberty and equality in its different versions. Once the core meaning of the rule of law in terms of liberty and equality is enucleated, it is possible to consider extending it to the international field.

Nostalgia di Barbapapà

2013

Analisi della serie tv "Barbapapà"

Philosophie, maladie et médecine au XVIIIe siècle

2009

Roland Barthes: parole chiave

2016

L’opera di Roland Barthes (semiologo, saggista, critico letterario fra i principali nel Novecento) è ancora ricca di idee e di modelli per leggere il nostro presente. Questo lessico concettuale prova a ricomporne i pezzi: una trentina di parole chiave con molti rimandi fra loro. I lemmi hanno natura diseguale ma tono analogo, in modo da far emergere la poliedricità di interessi di questo autore e la rigorosità dello sguardo che li attraversa. Il tutto sulla base di un rigoroso principio di fondo: tralasciamo inutili biografismi e torniamo ai testi di Barthes.

Workplace democracy and republican freedom

2021

In this chapter, Keith Breen and Onni Hirvonen examine the case for democratic worker voice based on the republican ideal of freedom as non-domination. While not unconvincing, this case is primarily consequentialist in character and therefore open to significant empirical disagreement. Indeed, together with republican arguments for democratic worker voice, there are republican arguments for worker voice that reject workplace democracy, republican arguments that see state regulation plus a universal basic income (UBI) as sufficient for minimizing workplace domination, and republican arguments that focus exclusively on exit rights and are hostile to augmenting workers’ voice. Breen and Hirvon…

Nowist Time: quando l'accelerazione supera il tempo

2019

12 marzo 1989, CERN di Ginevra – Tim Berners-Lee presenta al suo supervisore la prima idea del World Wide Web elaborata grazie all’osservazione della modalità di trasmissione di informazioni tramite video adoperato da ricercatori italiani che lavoravano con lui. Meno di vent’anni dopo, nel 2005, Zygmunt Bauman, esaminando la società post-moderna, mette in evidenza come sia cambiata la temporalità in un mondo che definisce «liquido». Alla ricerca perenne di allungare sempre più possibile il presente per riempirlo di esperienze della durata sempre più labile, l’uomo perde il desiderio dell’eternità. Ciò che conta per l’uomo dalla vita liquida non è la durata, ma la velocità a cui riesce a com…

Ambiguity and difference: Two feminist ethics of the present

2018

The chapter studies the ethical dimensions of Beauvoir’s existentialism and Irigaray’s ontology of difference. It argues that Irigaray builds on one central but largely neglected result of Beauvoir’s moral philosophical argumentation: the claim that fundamentally sexual subordination constitutes an ethical problem that cannot be adequately solved merely through social reforms, political interventions, or theoretical reflections. By comparing Beauvoir’s concept of erotic generosity to Irigaray’s discussion of wonder and love, the chapter demonstrates that both philosophers conceive of male privilege as an ethical issue that must be worked out between individual women and men in their concret…