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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…
Disidentity: New Forms of Identity and Psychopathology. Socio-Anthropological Changes and Development of the Self
2014
The passage from modernity to post-modernity deeply upset the group dimension, and, consequently, personal identity itself. Transformations involving the entire planet, socio-anthropological 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 which form the individual identity (cultural, linguistic, religious traditions…) 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-ident…
Federaliści i rozłam między klasycznością a modernością
2014
The article shows how the classical political thinking, based on civic virtues, and modernist thinking, based on individualism and self-interest, formed the basis of the U.S. Constitution. The Founding Fathers did not realize the full extent of the rift between classicism and modernity. When, as a result of intellectual discussions and practice of social life, this divide began to become more and more obvious, there has been a transition from the classical to the modernist paradigm in American politics. However, the dispute between classicism and modernity still continues and takes on new forms. On the one hand, contemporary political thinking is seen as a triumph of modernism, in which the…