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Recensione a "La democrazia nell’età moderna", a cura di Claudio Vasale e Paolo Armellini (Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino Editore, 2008)
2009
Nel volume, di cui nella recensione si presentano contributi e concetti, sono descritti e documentati gli aspetti ideologici e istituzionali che hanno contribuito alla formazione ed evoluzione dell'ordimento democratico nel corso dei secoli moderni.
Marginal Thinking Knowledge and Communication in the Postmodern Era
2020
The paradigm of late modernity and postmodernity, characterized by the sheer living manifestation of the limit, assumes the conscience of the indissoluble, by annulling any hypothesis, interrogation or problematization. The fracturing of the self coincides with the fracturing of knowledge, as an effective dialectic movement, or, in other words, as a state of continuity of the thinking, specific to the human being. The knowledge-seeking relation to the world through exclusion, that is featured by late modernity and postmodernism is manifested, in an extreme(marginal) form, by the de-presentisation of the immanent and the transcendent and by imposing the simulation as a global process of crea…
Revista española de educación comparada
2019
espanolEl objetivo de este trabajo consiste en aplicar la dialectica analogica desarrollada por Platon como una metodologia adecuada para comprender su pensamiento. En este sentido, abordare en primer lugar las aclaraciones terminologicas necesarias para delimitar el planteamiento de la cuestion y prestar una especial atencion a la nocion de symploke introducida por Platon y desarrollada posteriormente por Jesus G. Maestro como uno de los criterios hermeneuticos centrales que la Critica de la literatura debe tener en cuenta para evitar caer en el univocidad interpretativa o en la equivocidad propia de la postmodernidad. En segundo lugar, realizare una aproximacion metodologica a la lectura …
City profile: Valencia
2009
Abstract The historically agrarian and provincial city of Valencia has recently been transformed into a Spanish regional capital, a Mediterranean cultural and economic center, and a major tourism destination. Valencia’s engagement with globalization and European integration has unfolded amidst complex regional politics, marked by vigorous debates about cultural difference, political autonomy, and official bilingualism (Castilian Spanish and Valenciano/Catalan). Here we survey the city’s two millennia of historical development, explore recent urban changes through five emblematic urban landscapes, and briefly discuss major urban policy and planning challenges facing the city. Valencia is a p…
The Early Stages: Pre-1910
2017
The chapter gives an account of the roots of the modern ecumenical movement, of the latter’s social and ecclesial context, and of its first organizational manifestations leading up to the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh 1910. This predominantly Protestant movement developed in a setting marked by the climax of modernity and increasing secularization in northern societies, colonization and missionary enterprises in the south, polarization in theology, and denominationalism in church life. It drew from diverse sources, such as the YMCA/YWCA, the WSCF, the Evangelical Alliance and the missionary movement, and from the commitment of individuals such as John R. Mott. Its key aim was to …
Karol Wojtyla come educatore
2015
Se non è adeguato parlare in senso proprio di un Wojtyla pedagogista, educatore però egli lo è stato in senso eminente. La lettura delle opere di Wojtyla ha una potenza formatrice affatto caratteristica; nel saggio è proposta l'esperienza di lettura di tutte le sue opere come opere di formazione. Accostate così, esse risultano particolarmente attuali: in un momento storico come quello presente che può essere forse ricondotto a ciò che gli storici intendono con l'espressione epoca tarda. Ora, Wojtyla come educatore può forse aiutarci a pensare bene questo momento di trapasso e la transizione: ad assumere le istanze critiche della postmodernità; ma ad accoglierle, interpretando la modernità c…
The Risk Society: Towards a new modernity
2009
The present review discusses one of the pioneer projects authored by Ulrich Beck, regarding risk perception issues, which was originally titled Risikogesellshaft, Auf dem weg in eine andere Moderne or in English The society of risk, towards a new modernity. This review is part of a broader project related to a Social Psychology doctoral thesis on fears of travelling in urban circumstances.
A "grande política"
2015
Resumo Este artigo oferece uma discussão sobre o legado crítico em torno da noção de grande política na obra de Nietzsche, questão que foi dominada por três posições: 1) Nietzsche é reduzido a um ironista subjetivista, não se atribuindo a ele nenhuma (ou pouca) relevância na teoria política; 2) ou bem é estigmatizado como precursor intelectual dos totalitarismos políticos; 3) ou bem pode apresentar-se como um genuíno pensador político, para além dos totalitarismos e capaz de fecundar algumas concepções democráticas da vida política. Nesse último aspecto, apesar das críticas de Nietzsche à modernidade e à democracia, é possível vê que sua obra defende a noção de uma democracia radical, dado …
The Rise and Fall of the Aizjomi Landscape†
2012
Jurmalciems, an ancient fishing-farming village on the Baltic Sea coast in southwestern Latvia, provides the setting for this article. In this setting I focus on the notion of dwelling in a landscape that comes to reflect the residents' lifeworld. The holistic notion of "dwelling" incorporates the complex and multiple dimensions of human life spent in the physical landscape, where time and space, nature and culture, are bound together and where local and macrolevel historical and social circumstances determine them both. This study is my attempt to understand a visible reality: the aizjonii landscape that is etched into the topography in the form of fields carved and embosomed into sandbank…
Branch Points of Algebraic Functions and the Beginnings of Modern Knot Theory
1995
Many of the key ideas which formed modern topology grew out of “normal research” in one of the mainstream fields of 19th-century mathematical thinking, the theory of complex algebraic functions. These ideas were eventually divorced from their original context. The present study discusses an example illustrating this process. During the years 1895-1905, the Austrian mathematician, Wilhelm Wirtinger, tried to generalize Felix Klein's view of algebraic functions to the case of several variables. An investigation of the monodromy behavior of such functions in the neighborhood of singular points led to the first computation of a knot group. Modern knot theory was then formed after a shift in mat…