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The Politics of Utopia: Walter Pater’s “Lacedaemon”
2016
Walter Pater is not usually considered as a politically committed writer, neither is Aestheticism of which he was the gifted theoretician with The Renaissance (1873). Although the political commitments of the Aesthetic movement have been questioned over the last two decades, both by including women aesthetes, and by re-evaluating the movement’s dissemination among the middle classes, discussion of Pater’s political ideas is almost non-existent. His Plato and Platonism (1893) is however not so remote from politics since it discusses Plato’s political philosophy. In particular, “Lacedaemon”, the chapter devoted to Sparta, enables Pater to intervene in the political debate from an original sta…
Palazzeschi 1911: l'utopia del significato
2010
Utopie egualitarie e riformismo illuminato nella Carestia di Domenico Tempio
2022
La Carestia of the Sicilian poet Domenico Tempio is an allegorical satirical poem that fits into the tradition of southern enlightened reformism, feeding the utopia of peace and social egalitarianism. The article analyzes some frame of the work to grasp the thrust for the renewal of eighteenth-century poetry, through a stylistic use of the poetic language that oscillates between coloriture markedly expressionist and equally visible traces of formal classicism.
La Repubblica di Platone fra totalitarismo, dissimulazione e utopia
2014
Parodiando la frustración de la superwoman: Liz Lemon en el entorno laboral de Rockefeller Plaza
2014
El personaje protagonista de la ya finalizada sitcom Rockefeller Plaza (30 Rock, NBC, 2006-2013), Liz Lemon, puede definirse como la caricatura de un modelo de mujer que se siente fracasada por su incapacidad de “tenerlo todo”, esa utopía conciliadora impuesta al género femenino casi desde su incorporación al mundo del trabajo. Liz es la jefa de guionistas de un programa de sketches humorísticos en directo de relativo éxito, un puesto de gran exigencia que trata de compaginar con una inexistente vida no laboral. Así, muchos de los gags recurrentes de la serie proceden de insistir en los desastrosos resultados de su torpeza a la hora de conciliar estas dos áreas de su caótica vida diaria, de…
The Privatization and Recollectivization of Hope
2020
Responsabilità e progresso. Jonas, Apel e il futuro globale
2022
The essay discusses the foundations of the ethics of responsibility, comparing the positions of Jonas and Apel. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between technology and progress. The author evaluates Jonas’ ethics as insufficient in terms of the theory of justice. Preserving the natural should not be separated from the idea of progress. Instead, planetary macroethics should activate the socio-political conditions for the discursive realisation of global responsibility. The ethics of responsibility is connected to the ethics of progress for the realisation of the conditions of human dignity.
Sidney Armor Reeve: Engineer, Inventor, Progressive, and Underappreciated Utopian
2022
Sidney Armor Reeve, professional engineer and amateur historian, economist, and sociologist, writing during what has been described as the Progressive Era, at-tacked the very foundations of the existing economic and social orders. He explic-itly criticized the dominant commercialism of the capitalist society as being a can-cer, a major cause of inequality and unemployment, offering instead a program of reform that, while some reviewers characterized it as consistent with the program of the socialists, presented something of an alternative vision, one recognizing the primacy of the Ultimate Consumer. His remedy, favoring as it did the central con-trol of the economy, shared at least commonal…
Rewolucje i ich konsekwencje dla dystopijnych i antyutopijnych powieściowych światów. Przykłady z polskiej i czeskiej literatury
2016
Powieści o charakterze antyutopijnym i dystopijnym opisują świat po pewnej zmianie. Zmiana ta często przybierała formę rewolucji, gwałtownego zaprzeczenia, odwrócenia znanego porządku. W swoim artykule chciałabym przyjrzeć się literackim kreacjom takich przemian - które w utopijnych wariacjach prowadzą do zniewolenia - nie do wyzwolenia. W omawianych utworach rewolucja jest wynikiem działań postaci reprezentujących odmienne światopoglądy, jednak jej skutek często bywa taki sam niszczy, nie tworzy. Obawy twórców literackich odzwierciedlają znaną im rzeczywistość.