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L'opacità abbagliante di Dio.Sull'ermeneutica diacritica del divino di Richard Kearney
2014
Phenomenological philosophy of religion (Söderblom, van der Leeuw and Otto at the beginning) stresses the impossibility of a conceptual definition of God and considers the sacred as the very object of religion. The sacred is an oxymoronic reality, because it is at the same time opaque and glaring, in the sense that it escapes an eidetic objectifying intuition, but is felt in the body in an immediate and also upsetting way. As Richard Kearney shows, on the level of feeling through the body subjectivity works on the Otherness, which is the phenomenon of its carnal Erlebnis, activating hermeneutical diacritical operations thanks to the role of imagination and under the condition of confidence …
Re-giardinieri e Natura selvaggia. Implicazioni politico-simboliche dello sradicamento, taglio e trasporto in città degli alberi nella Mesopotamia de…
2022
In Sumerian mythological literature, as in coeval Akkadian one, between the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 2nd millennium, the ruler, foremost among them Gilgameš, on several occasions uproots and/or cuts down trees. These trees should be understood as elements of a wider ‘Wilderness’, with which they share a powerful and ambiguous ontological otherness compared to the city and, more generally, to the land of Sumer. The action of the king on the tree, like that of a farmer or gardener, with the consequent realization of ‘artefacts’, allows, through a cultural organization of the power of the tree, the renewal of the relationship, always subject to crisis, between the human communit…
Alla periferia del mondo, ai margini dell’umano. Felicità e dolore in Diodoro
2020
In the proem of his Bibliotheke, Diodorus Siculus states that a historian should provide knowledge for all mankind. Hence, the value of a historian is not measured by his ability to gather in a single narrative stories of men from all times all over the world. What matters is the way in which the common human nature of all of the actors in history emerges. This contribution focuses on the first part of Book III, in particular on the Ichthyophagoi and Acridophagoi, where the historian’s gaze oscillates between idealisation and compassion towards such primitive peoples. The diodorean ethnographic report has the merit to provide a backdrop to some of the guidelines of the cultural debate in th…
Dal divino all'umano. Percorso per un dialogo interreligioso nell'epoca post-secolare
2014
In its phenomenological and hermeneutic declination philosophy of religions is today in a fruitful dialogue with theology of religions as concerns the investigation of the conditions of possibility of the interreligious dialogue and its praxis. The subjective opening to the otherness gives an interesting perspective in order to think the interreligious dialogue as a kind of agapic relationship between the subjects that are strangers for each other and in which a honest use of logos is necessary. Following this perspective we note not only a philosophical correction of transcendental subjectivity, but also an elaboration of the concept of God which subverts the onto-theological tradition acc…
‘All’insegna del Serpente Celeste’. Considerazioni su astrologia caldaica, magia giudaica e Gnosticismo in un libro recente.
2006
Perdere il senno e darsi la morte. Due casi singolari di punizione divina nelle Storie di Erodoto (V 85; VI, 75)
2016
Scopo di questo paper è l’analisi dei temi della follia e del suicidio nella struttura narrativa di Erodoto. I due episodi esaminati sono: a) il racconto della pazzia che colpì gli Ateniesi, che avevano tentato invano di sottrarre agli Egineti le sacre statue di Damia e Auxesia; b) la storia dei disaccordi tra i due re spartani Demarato e Cleomene e il loro tragico esito. Questi due episodi sono profondamente interconnessi: attraverso i rimandi interni, suggeriti dalle scelte linguistiche dello storico, noi vogliamo infine riflettere sul modello causale erodoteo. The aim of this paper is the analysis of the themes of madness and suicide in the narrative structure of Herodotus. Two episodes …
Councillors, Heretics, and Archbishops in Late Antique Hierapolis: Recent Epigraphical Findings Concerning the City, its Territory, and the History o…
2018
In the last years the Missione Archeologica Italiana di Hierapolis di Frigia (MAIER) has recovered some important epigraphic documents which offer new data for the history of the city of Hierapolis, its bishopric, and the surrounding territory in Late Antiquity (4th-6th cent.). The most recently published inscriptions are discussed in this paper in their historical context (parr. 1-3) and the development of Hierapolis’ bishopric and its episcopal prosopography between the 4th and the 9th cent. are analyzed through the examination of literary and epigraphical sources and the comparison with other relevant cities of Western Asia Minor (par. 4.a-f).
Antropologia religiosa e studi sul Vicino Oriente antico
2021
Dialogo tra antropologia religiosa e studi sul Vicino Oriente antico
Ape in India
2021
The honey bee is mentioned in some ancient Indian religious texts as a symbol of the sacrificial act; it also appears in some myths throughout Indian religious history with meanings partly related to representations of the divine feminine.