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La alegoría en Baudelaire
2020
Interpreto Les fleurs du mal de Baudelaire a partir principalmente de los conceptos ofrecidos por la teoría del arte de Adorno, en un diálogo que busca la coherencia hermenéutica del poeta con las aportaciones para su comprensión de Benjamin, Jauss y Gadamer. Con el horizonte puesto en la relación entre lo artístico y el saber, distingo cuatro constelaciones de sentido en los poemas baudelairianos: la construcción alegórica de la realidad, el poeta autointerpretado como arquitecto, la poética del recuerdo y el spleen, desde cuyos marcos interpretativos esbozo materiales para una posible historia de la belleza en la modernidad. I interpret Les fleurs du mal de Baudelaire mainly from the conc…
Modernità, secolarizzazione e metafisica. In dialogo (postumo) con Sergio Sarti
2022
Il fenomeno della secolarizzazione ha profondamente sollecitato sia la riflessione filosofica sia quella teologica di matrice cristiana e nel secondo dopoguerra, soprattutto in area cattolica, tali dibattiti hanno avuto un peso su e dopo quell’evento fondamentale che è stato il Concilio Vaticano II. Ed è proprio a partire da questa costellazione storico-culturale-religiosa che ho pensato di interrogare gli scritti di Sarti, i quali offrono una chiave di lettura interessante, che oggi potremmo definire, senza esagerazione, profetica. In questo senso, credo che il lavoro di Sarti si muova nella stessa direzione di quella assunta da autori italiani come Augusto Del Noce o Michele Federico Scia…
The Dark Society
2020
Ulrich Beck, a German sociologist who does not need previous presentation, casts his diagnosis about risk society as a new emerging ethos where social class and hierarchies blurred before the figure of risk. Although he shed light on the post-industrial society of the 90s, today the society he studied seems to be pretty different. Hence, a new fresh insight should replace it. This article introduces readers to the conceptual foundations of Thana Capitalism, as it was critically debated in our book The Rise of Thana Capitalism and Tourism. Per the author's conception, the risk society sets the pace to a new facet of capitalism where the other's pain remains as the main commodity to exchange.…
The Blaumanis Moment: National Literature Enters the Stage of Art
2012
My aim in this article is to discuss the literary field in Latvia slightly before 1900. More specifically, I want to focus on the particular situation when literature written in the Latvian language ceases to be a product of didactic intention and moralizing value, and makes the crucial step in recognizing its rights to submerge into primarily aesthetic issues. It is also the moment when the personality of the author cuts through the still mostly realistic surface of literary works, making him (or her) be perceived as unmistakably present, even if this move often remains unnoticed by most contemporary and even later observers.1 The author who in my article represents this departure, which u…
Cabiria, opera d'arte autonoma
2020
Cabiria is ‘an autonomous work of art’, between aesthetical and stylistic peculiarities. In order to legitimately recognise these specificities, we should not exalt the high level of the technical cleverness mixed with ‘tricks’ or mechanisms of technological artificiality. On the contrary, we should – first and foremost – be aware of the identity of the movie, expression of the figurative art which combines painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre and cinematograph, constitutive nucleus of a poetics of the marvellous, created by d’Annunzio’s fervid fantasy and by the director Pastrone, invention – though in a real historical context – precise as regards the chronological limits, of forms,…
La suspensión de la libre circulación de inversiones extranjeras en España por la crisis del COVID-19
2020
La libre circulación de inversiones es uno de los mantras que ha caracterizado la modernidad económica. El principio, sin embargo, se encuentra sometido a creciente prevención, en el marco de una visión crítica hacia la globalización en un mundo en pleno reajuste geoestratégico. Una de las manifestaciones de esta tendencia reciente de empoderamiento del Estado se refleja en la articulación de mecanismos de control de las inversiones foráneas que le permitan evitar que sectores claves de la economía nacional caigan en manos de inversores extranjeros, en muchas ocasiones, controlados por Estados competidores. A diferencia de lo que ocurre con los países de nuestro entorno, España había sido i…
Economicism and Nihilism in the Eclipse of Humanism
2014
This article is based on the conviction that the major problems nowadays are not technical, but ethical, and are incumbent on homo qua homo. The origin of these problems is the advancement of economicism as a supreme interpretation of human and social reality, which means the primacy of the “market” and considering human beings in terms of what they have rather than what they are. Economicism emerges in “modernity” and assumes that everything that does not have market value is either devaluated or rejected. In consequence, the human being has been devaluated and has turned into a simple object of the market. “Postmodernity” mixes economicism and techno-scientificism (chrematistics and instr…
El escultor del tiempo: claves de la “filosofía cinematográfica” de Gilles Deleuze
2018
Gilles Deleuze ha ofrecido en sus dos estudios sobre cine —L’image–mouvement y L’image– temps— una de las propuestas más ambiciosas de las últimas décadas en lo que concierne a la relación entre filosofía y cine, hasta el punto de construir una auténtica “filosofía cinematográfica” y de inaugurar, en paralelo a Stanley Cavell, una fructífera línea de investigación filosófica que ha dado en denominarse como “film–philosophy”. Su primera obra se centra, fundamentalmente, en elaborar una metafísica del tiempo inspirada en la filosofía de Henri Bergson, pero utilizando las posibilidades del cine para complementar y trascender las ideas del autor de L’évolution créatice. En su se…
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.