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The limits of subtractive politics: Agamben and Rousseau’s inheritance
2020
The article critically engages with Giorgio Agamben’s reading of Rousseau in order to explore the affinities between the two authors’ subtractive approach to political subjectivation. In The Kingdom and the Glory. Agamben argues that Rousseau’s Social Contract reproduces, in a secularized manner, the providential paradigm of government, whose origins Agamben finds in early Christianity. This paradigm establishes a fictitious articulation between transcendent sovereignty and immanent government, presenting particular acts of government as emanating from general divine laws. We shall demonstrate that Rousseau was neither unaware of the problematic character of this paradigm nor did he venture…
Religion and Social Integration ‘Crises’ in North Western Europe: Some Conclusions
2013
My investigation of religion-related social integration crises in four North West European societies in the period 2001–11 began with the English case and the riots in some Northern English cities of 2001. In concluding I shall start again with this case, bringing it together with the Dutch, French and Northern Irish evidence we have now considered, and with my findings across each of the dimensions examined (segregation, media, institutional forms of multiculturalism and secularism, far-right and post-liberal mobilisation and national cultural trauma). Since much attention has been given to factors which shape conflict and influence the construction of prejudice, and especially to the nega…
From fringe to fringe: the shift from the clericalist League of Polish Families to the anticlericalist Palikot Movement 2001–2015
2017
The period between 2001 and 2015 brought two events in Poland that deserve to be called phenomena. In 2001 the rightist, clericalist League of Polish Families entered the Sejm. Ten years later, the leftist, anticlericalist Palikot Movement achieved spectacular success in the 2011 elections. These events give a picture of a radical shift in the Polish political scene: a rightist clericalist party disappeared from the right flank of the political scene, while a new, leftist-anticlericalist formation appeared. The article makes reference to a set of five explanations on both the causes and consequences (and permanence) of the observed changes. I argue that only a concurrence of a number of com…
Stato, Chiesa e secolarizzazione: in dialogo con Antonio Rosmini
2021
The relation between state and Church is one of the main topics of Western political debate. In this essay I will stress that there is not a clear formula to face this topic. Therefore, it is necessary that Catholic philosophy and theology always reflect on the way this relation has to be thought as time goes by. More specifically, I will argue that the premise of liberal Catholicism, that is that a clear distinction between state and society exists, is today not more easily acceptable at all. This point is very important in order to reflect upon the relation between state and Church, political and religion, and public and private sfere in our age.
In-situ high spatial resolution LA-MC-ICPMS 230Th/U dating enables detection of small-scale age inversions in speleothems
2017
Abstract We present an in-situ method for Th and U isotope measurements by laser ablation multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-MC-ICPMS) to determine possible age inversions of stalagmites, using a 213 nm Nd:YAG laser connected to an MC-ICPMS. Due to the low ion beam intensity of 230 Th (20–120 counts per second, cps), we carefully optimized the operating parameters to get highest possible ion beam intensities, i.e., laser fluence (25 J cm −2 ), spot size (110 μm), pulse repetition rate (20 Hz), scan speed (4 μm s −1 ), integration time (1000 s), and He and Ar gas flow (∼0.9 L min −1 and ∼0.6 L min −1 respectively). A precision (2 relative standard error, 2RSE) o…
Visita pastoral y tonsura en la diócesis de Valencia (1526-1527)
2010
Visita realizada entre 1526 y 1527 a una parte de la diócesis de Valencia en la que el visitador aprovecha para impartir la orden de la tonsura a un total de 658 jóvenes, de los cuales se aportan datos sobre la fecha de ordenación, lugar donde recibe la orden, nombre y apellido del tonsurado, nombre, apellido y profesión o estamento social al que pertenece el padre, y si es hijo ilegítimo se dice la causa de su ilegitimidad. (A)
Notas de diplomática episcopal: Reparación de dos letras de tonsura
2009
En este trabajo se hace un breve análisis de los documentos contenidos en las actas de dos procesos motivados por un error administrativo cometido en la curia del Vicariato de Valencia al anotar los datos de dos jóvenes que habían recibido la tonsura. En uno el notario escribió de manera equivocada su nombre en el registro de ordenaciones y en el otro escribió mal el nombre de su padre. (A)
A 4500 year record of palaeomagnetic secular variation and relative palaeointensity from the Tyrrhenian Sea
2020
A marine sediment core from the western Mediterranean provides a newhigh-resolution 4,500-year record of palaeomagnetic secular variation and relativepalaeointensity. In 2013, the 7.1-metre C5 core was recovered from the TyrrhenianSea as part of the NextData climate data project. The coring site, 15 km offshorefrom the Volturno river mouth, is well-located to record combined marine andterrestrial palaeoclimatic influences, and the fine-grained, rapidly deposited sedimentsare effective palaeomagnetic recorders. We investigate the palaeomagnetic field direction and strength recorded in the core, which provide a valuable high-resolution recordof Holocene geomagnetic variation in the area. Usin…
Els orígens de l’Estudi General de Girona: uns començaments que es faran esperar
2020
Resum: Els orígens i la trajectòria mateixa de l’Estudi General de Girona (1446-1717) són força mal coneguts encara, sobretot per unes mancances documentals que semblen de mal solucionar a curt i potser a llarg termini. En aquestes pàgines s’ofereix, doncs, una síntesi de l’evolució del vell Estudi gironí, tot remarcant el seus inicis més aviat tardans, a la segona meitat del segle xvi, és a dir, un segle després de l’obtenció del pertinent privilegi reial. Aquesta lenta arrencada de la universitat gironina es pot explicar per les vicissituds polítiques, econòmiques i religioses tant del període com de la ciutat de Girona.
 
 Paraules clau: Universitat, Girona, Època moderna, Estu…
La religión en el mundo secular : trascendencia e individualidad. Un estudio del problema desde el pensamiento de Charles Taylor
2013
Las teorías clásicas del secularismo vaticinaron, durante decenios, el lento declinar de las religiones, su marginación al espacio privado y, finalmente, su disolución y muerte. Con todo, las profecías seculares no se han cumplido. Las religiones siguen gozando de relativa buena salud y siguen estado muy presentes en el espacio público. De esta manera, la religión está siendo ¿y vaticinamos que lo seguirá siendo en el futuro- un fenómeno importante, que continuará marcando, de una u otra manera, nuestra cultura, y que seguirá siendo un interlocutor significativo, con capacidad de aportar constructivamente en los distintos debates que se generen en el espacio público. Por esto se hace necesa…