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Jesi Furio
No full textFurio Jesi ha sviluppato un’analisi innovativa del rapporto tra mito, religione e potere, introducendo il concetto di “macchina mitologica”. Questa rappresenta un dispositivo narrativo che rende il mito simultaneamente visibile e inaccessibile, strutturando la cultura umana attorno a un’origine irraggiungibile. Jesi evidenzia il ruolo del mito nella costruzione dell’identità collettiva e nella manipolazione politica, definendo la “religione della morte” come una forma di mitologia strumentalizzata dal potere. Collegando tale tipo di strumentalizzazione a quella che egli chiama la “cultura di destra”, la militanza politica e culturale di Jesi si volge allo scandaglio incessante della macchina mitologica, mirando all’emancipazione dall’evocazione esoterica della sua potenza. La tradizione, cioè l’origine, il nucleo inaccessibile del mito, va diffusa nella pratica della critica razionale.
Parole chiave: Furio Jesi, mito, macchina mitologica, religione della morte, critica razionale
Furio Jesi developed an innovative analysis of the relationship between myth, religion, and power, introducing the concept of the “mythological machine.” This represents a narrative device that makes myth simultaneously visible and inaccessible, structuring human culture around an unattainable origin. Jesi highlights the role of myth in the construction of collective identity and political manipulation, defining the “religion of death” as a form of mythology instrumentalized by power. By linking this type of instrumentalization to what he calls “right-wing culture,” Jesi’s political and cultural militancy turns to the relentless exploration of the mythological machine, aiming for emancipation from the esoteric evocation of its power. Tradition, that is, the origin, the inaccessible core of myth, should be disseminated in the practice of rational criticism.
Keywords: Furio Jesi, myth, mythological machine, religion of death, rational criticis
Macchioro Vittorio
No full textVittorio Macchioro è stato un archeologo e storico delle religioni. Inizialmente dedito alla classificazione della ceramica italiota, subì una profonda trasformazione dopo la Prima Guerra Mondiale, avvicinandosi a un’ermeneutica fenomenologico-esistenziale. Ha studiato in modo innovativo l’orfismo – in particolare nel suo capolavoro Zagreus (1920, 2a ed. 1930) - e ha proposto dei confronti tra misteri eleusini e cristianesimo paolino, tra Dioniso e Cristo, in una visione della religione come esperienza rituale e trasformativa. L’influenza dell’antropologia, della psicoanalisi e della fenomenologia emerge nella sua metodologia interdisciplinare. Pur non ottenendo consensi diffusi, l’opera di Macchioro si è mossa su linee originali e ha suscitato l’interesse di studiosi come A. Warburg, M. Eliade, E. De Martino.
Parole chiave: Vittorio Macchioro, orfismo, cristianesimo paolino, fenomenologia della religione, ermeneutica religiosa
Vittorio Macchioro was an archaeologist and historian of religions. Initially dedicated to the classification of Italic ceramics, he underwent a profound transformation after World War I, moving towards a phenomenological-existential hermeneutics. He innovatively studied Orphism—particularly in his masterpiece Zagreus (1920, 2nd ed. 1930)—and proposed comparisons between the Eleusinian mysteries and Pauline Christianity, as well as between Dionysus and Christ, viewing religion as a ritual and transformative experience. The influence of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology emerges in his interdisciplinary methodology. Although he did not gain widespread consensus, Macchioro’s work followed original lines and sparked the interest of scholars such as A. Warburg, M. Eliade, and E. De Martino.
Keywords: Vittorio Macchioro, Orphism, Pauline Christianity, phenomenology of religion, religious hermeneutic
Manferdini Tina
No full textTina Mirella Manferdini, formatasi all’Università di Bologna sotto la guida di T. Moretti-Costanzi è stata la prima donna a ottenere una cattedra in filosofia della religione nelle università statali italiane (una tra le prime di queste cattedre). La cifra teoretica del suo pensiero sulla religione è nello sforzo inesausto di dipanare il rapporto tra la religione e la fede. E questo avviene sia con i pensatori contemporanei come J. Dewey, P. Tillich, K. Barth o R. Guardini sia con i tre grandi classici con cui si è confrontata ovvero Agostino, Bonaventura e A. Rosmini. Manferdini apprezza la posizione di Barth, ne accoglie l’importante distinzione tra fede e religione, ma ritiene più equilibrata la posizione di R. Guardini e di P. Tillich che distinguono certo le due dimensioni ma le pongono purtuttavia in vitale correlazione. La sua eredità accademica è stata proseguita dai suoi allievi, contribuendo al dibattito sulla filosofia della religione nel Novecento.
Parole chiave: Tina Mirella Manferdini; filosofia della religione; fede; Rivelazione; religione e cultura
Tina Mirella Manferdini (1927-2005) was an Italian philosopher of religion and among the first women to hold a university chair in this field. Trained at the University of Bologna under Teodorico Moretti-Costanzi, she was a key figure in the neo-Bonaventurian school. Her thought revolves around three major figures: Augustine, Rosmini, and Bonaventure, integrating metaphysical reflection with the analysis of religious experience. She critically examined the relationship between philosophy and religion, highlighting tensions between faith and knowledge, experience and revelation. Her research focused on Augustine’s concept of communication and Rosmini’s ontological framework. Engaging with contemporary thinkers such as Tillich, Guardini, Barth, and Dewey, she explored the relationship between religion and modern culture. Her academic legacy continues through her students, influencing the discourse on the philosophy of religion in the 20th century.
Keywords: Tina Mirella Manferdini; philosophy of religion; Augustine; Rosmini; Bonaventure; revelation and knowledge; religion and modernit
Moretti Costanzi Teodorico
No full textTeodorico Moretti-Costanzi fu assistente di P. Carabellese e poi per molti decenni ordinario di filosofia teoretica all’Università di Bologna. Il percorso di pensiero di Moretti-Costanzi è sintetizzabile nella sua proposta di centralità di un’autentica cristologia quale vera chiave di lettura della realtà e contenuto univoco della filosofia. La duplicità finito e infinito, tempo ed eterno, si risolve nella adesione al Dio che è temporale ed eterno fatto uno tra molti restando però per tutti principio di unità e amore. Su questa direzione, riallacciandosi in modo originale alla tradizione francescana e bonaventuriana, si matura la proposta di una via “ascetica” del filosofare che non vuol dire estraniamento dal mondo o astrattezza dello spirito, ma incarnazione e elevazione alla verità, giungendo ad affermare un cristianesimo-filosofia e un’ontologia sacrale in cui «l’esperienza espressa è anche presenza della Realtà che vi si attesta».
Parole chiave: Teodorico Moretti-Costanzi, cristologia, ascesi, cristianesimo-filosofia, ontologia sacrale
Teodorico Moretti-Costanzi was an assistant to P. Carabellese and then, for many decades, a full professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Bologna. The development of Moretti-Costanzi’s thought can be summarized in his proposal of the centrality of an authentic Christology as the true key to understanding reality and as the unequivocal content of philosophy. The duality of finite and infinite, time and eternity, is resolved in the adherence to God, who is both temporal and eternal, made one among many, yet remaining the principle of unity and love for all. In this direction, drawing in an original way on the Franciscan and Bonaventurian tradition, he develops the proposal of an “ascetic” path of philosophizing—one that does not mean estrangement from the world or abstract spirituality, but rather incarnation and elevation to the truth, culminating in the affirmation of a Christianity-philosophy and a sacred ontology in which “the expressed experience is also the presence of the Reality that bears witness within it.”
Keywords: Teodorico Moretti-Costanzi, Christology, ascetism, Cristianity-philosophy, sacred ontolog
Stefanini Luigi
No full textIn importanti studi su Platone, Luigi Stefanini trovò nel filosofo ateniese già la tematica della trascendenza, ma non invece una filosofia dello spirituale. Platone, afferma Stefanini, preparò certamente la sintesi dell’ideale e dello spirituale ma questa si compirà soltanto nella concezione del Dio personale del cristianesimo. Il rapporto platonico tra archetipi ideali e cose sensibili trova così una decisiva trasformazione nei principali autori della patristica cristiana e in particolare in Agostino, per il quale il mondo sensibile è un’immagine del mondo intellegibile (puramente possibile) vivente in Dio. Riallacciandosi a tale impostazione, Stefanini trae significativi sviluppi in vari settori della filosofia - dall’estetica alla filosofia dell’educazione -, opponendosi all’idealismo immanentistico e all’esistenzialismo ateistico e giungendo ad una propria specifica proposta teorica di personalismo cristiano.
Parole chiave: Luigi Stefanini, spiritualismo cristiano, personalismo cristiano, immagine e trascendenza, esistenzialismo teistico
In important studies on Plato, Luigi Stefanini found in the Athenian philosopher the theme of transcendence, but not a philosophy of the spiritual. Plato, Stefanini asserts, certainly prepared the synthesis of the ideal and the spiritual, but this would only be fulfilled in the conception of the personal God of Christianity. The Platonic relationship between ideal archetypes and sensible things thus undergoes a decisive transformation in the main authors of Christian patristics, particularly in Augustine, for whom the sensible world is an image of the intelligible world (purely possible) living in God. Building on this framework, Stefanini draws significant developments in various fields of philosophy—from aesthetics to the philosophy of education—opposing immanentistic idealism and atheistic existentialism, and arriving at his own specific theoretical proposal of Christian personalism.
Keywords: Luigi Stefanini, Christian spiritualism, Christian personalism, image and transcendence, theistic existentialis
Subilia Vittorio
No full textVittorio Subilia fu nel secondo dopoguerra per molti anni docente nella Facoltà Valdese di Teologia di Roma, per la cattedra di teologia sistematica, comprensiva anche di storia dei dogmi e teologia del Nuovo Testamento. Pur senza esserne un mero ripetitore Subilia fu con costanza attento al pensiero teologico di K. Barth, con l’accentuazione della assoluta alterità di Dio e della centralità dell’evento di Cristo. Subilia insiste sul fatto che noi viviamo nell’interim fra l’ascensione e la parusia e prende con costanza partito contro il fatto che le prospettive teologiche possano venire sacrificate al compromesso diplomatico e alla visione ecclesiocentrica delle gerarchie ecclesiastiche. Subilia ci tenne anche a rimarcare le specificità della Riforma nei confronti del cattolicesimo più di altri esponenti del protestantesimo italiano coevo.
Parole chiave: Vittorio Subilia, teologia protestante, alterità di Dio, evento di Cristo, Parola di Dio
Vittorio Subilia was, in the post-war period, a professor for many years at the Waldensian Faculty of Theology in Rome, teaching systematic theology, which also included the history of dogmas and New Testament theology. While not merely a repeater, Subilia consistently paid attention to the theological thought of K. Barth, emphasizing the absolute otherness of God and the centrality of the event of Christ. Subilia insists that we live in the interim between the ascension and the parousia, and he consistently took a stand against the idea that theological perspectives could be sacrificed for diplomatic compromise and the ecclesiocentric vision of church hierarchies. Subilia also emphasized the specificities of the Reformation in relation to Catholicism more than other representatives of contemporary Italian Protestantism.
Keywords: Vittorio Subilia, Protestant theology, otherness of God, event of Christ, Word of God
Turoldo David Maria
No full textSacerdote e poeta, David Maria Turoldo si formò filosoficamente all’Università Cattolica di Milano con G. Bontadini. Già nella sua tesi di laurea, rimasta inedita, Turoldo sostiene che il divenire, entro cui si colloca il nostro ex-sistere, risulta inconciliabile con l’essere: infatti diviene e non è mai. Dal divenire non si passa, dunque, all’essere, a meno di una Rivelazione grazie alla quale l’Essere stesso scende per unirsi a noi – e noi a Lui e al Bene che è la Verità. Ciò porta a una sorta di progressivo “andare al di là”: la filosofia rimanda alla religione che, a sua volta, rinvia a un “atto di fede”, una “fede albare”, di cui il simbolo è Giobbe ed è in grado di liberare la religione da ideologie, fideismi e fanatismi. In questo contesto, alla religione e all’atto di fede si affianca la poesia che, come tutta l’arte, è «immagine del mondo quale immagine dell’Essere». «La vera, la grande poesia, finisce così sempre in preghiera», afferma Turoldo.
Parole chiave: David Maria Turoldo, Essere e divenire, atto di fede, andare al di là, poesia e preghiera
Priest and poet, David Maria Turoldo was philosophically educated at the Catholic University of Milan with G. Bontadini. Even in his unpublished thesis, Turoldo argues that becoming, within which our ex-sistence is placed, is irreconcilable with being: in fact, it becomes and never is. Therefore, one does not pass from becoming to being, unless through a Revelation by which Being itself descends to unite with us – and we with Him and the Good that is Truth. This leads to a sort of progressive “going beyond’: philosophy refers to religion, which in turn points to an “act of faith”, a “down faith”, of which the symbol is Job and which is capable of freeing religion from ideologies, fideisms, and fanaticisms. In this context, poetry, alongside religion and the act of faith, is, like all art, “an image of the world as an image of Being.” “True, great poetry always ends in prayer,” Turoldo states.
Keywords: David Maria Turoldo, Being and becoming, act of faith, going beyond, poetry and prayer
Urban commons and cultural activities: governance and co-production processes in local communities
No full textPurpose. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on cultural activity in cities, and on the contribution that urban commons can make to changing the urban cultural landscape.
Design/methodology/approach. The analysis is set within the theoretical framework of the commons, and more precisely the urban commons: therefore, we will first carry out a review of the literature covering the key aspects of the framework. Then, we will introduce a descriptive case study aimed at providing an example of the contribution that urban commons can make to the definition of cultural activities in cities.
Findings. We will find that communities managing urban commons, their values and objectives have great importance in defining the direction of cultural activities that can be carried out in such spaces; with this in mind, urban commons can make a valuable contribution to the cultural landscape of cities and neighborhood, and be part of a grassroots movement that shapes culture on the basis of social and collective needs.
Practical and Social implications. Urban commons are often highly valued by local communities, as they become social and cultural hubs in their neighborhoods. At the same time, they often face opposition from local administration, mainly based on legal issues pertaining to the ownership of the spaces. Adopting a co-production approach to public value may allow such initiatives to flourish, with support from the public sector.
Originality of the study. This paper links the fields of urban studies, with a specific focus on commons, with that of cultural activities, and takes into account a new, shared way of “making” culture in the city
FROM POLTRONOVA TO CENTRO STUDI POLTRONOVA: HOW TO PIVOT ON CULTURAL RESOURCES FOR ORGANIZATIONAL REBIRTH
No full textPurpose. This article focuses on the role of cultural resources, seeking to shed new light on their pivotal role in organizational rebirth after organizational death. Adding to literature on cultural resources, this study investigates how an organization can leverage its existing cultural resources as primary source to inform organizational rebirth.
Design/methodology/approach. Through inductive single case study approach, this study analyzes the case of Poltronova, an Italian SME in the furniture business, founded by an artist and developed upon the central role of designers and design projects.
Practical and Social implications. The study can inform practitioners on how to navigate organizational rebirth by leveraging internal cultural resources, when other resources are unavailable. Furthermore, it offers new insight on the intrinsic value of artistic efforts and of business involvement with artists to provide favorable conditions towards both economic and cultural development.
Originality of the study. Our findings highlight the emergence of what we label artist-based enterprise and project-based model, which can secure organizational success through restoring its historical origin, while ensuring economic profitability in the contemporary context
English
No full textPurpose. This research aims to investigate the decision-making processes of sellers in cross-border, ‘opportunity-driven’ acquisitions of small high-tech firms. Specifically, it examines the factors that influence executive-level interest in ownership transfer, the criteria used to evaluate and respond to investor proposals, and the perceived benefits of such acquisitions.Design/methodology/approach. Given the exploratory nature of the research, a qualitative single-case study methodology was adopted. The study focuses on the acquisition of an Italian small firm specializing in 3D printing services by a Swedish group operating in the same sector.Findings. The research sheds light on the motivations that drive the management of a small high-tech enterprise to accept an acquisition offer from a foreign firm. It also highlights the key factors influencing the acceptance or rejection of investor proposals and outlines the perceived advantages of the acquisition for the acquired firm.Practical and social implications. The study presents valuable practical and social implications by enhancing understanding of the seller’s decision-making process in cross-border acquisitions. The findings contribute to knowledge on how such transactions can support the economic development of small high-tech firms.Originality of the study. The originality of this research lies in its focus on cross-border acquisitions involving high-tech SMEs from the seller’s perspective. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first studies to examine this phenomenon