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Ἐνθαδί, «Proprio qui davanti». Strategie di messa in scena della Theophoroumene di Menandro
No full textἘνθαδί, «Proprio qui davanti». Strategie di messa in scena della Theophoroumene di Menandr
Lost in Edition? Considerations on Some Sources of Menander’s Hypobolimaios
No full textIn this paper, I discuss several literary and iconographic sources related to Menander’s Hypobolimaios. I compare the texts of Varro and Cicero, which refer to Caecilius’ Hypobolimaeus (Chaerestratus), with Quintilian’s text concerning the Menandrean play. Furthermore, I argue that a marble relief in Naples, a cameo in Geneva, and the decoration of a silver cup from the Boscoreale treasure can be associated with Menander’s Hypobolimaios
P.B. Cipolla, Aeschylus’ Satyric Prometheus
No full textReview of P.B. Cipolla, Aeschylus’ Satyric Prometheu
Gianni Vattimo e l’estetica debole della spazialità.: Dall’ontologia dell’opera d’arte all’eterotopia comunitaria
No full textThe following article aims at reconstructing the evolution of Gianni Vattimo's aesthetic thought, starting from the elaboration of an ontology of the work of art to showing the developments of his reflection that reach the theorization of a “weak” aesthetics that has a certain focus on spatiality. This leads to the very rethinking of art as the creation and configuration of places, which become multiple fragments of relational space within our hyperindustrial and technological society. The production of these spaces revives a new sense of community that allows us to grasp and rediscover the relevance of Vattimo's thought in relation to developments in contemporary art, urban art and other disciplines, such as architecture and urban planning
Introduction to the Reader’s Report of Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Marrow of Tradition” (1901)
No full textIntroduction to the Reader’s Report of Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Marrow of Tradition” (1901)
Riflessioni sul tema “Il pensiero di Pascal in Russia”
No full textThe article starts from the analysis of the interesting collection of essays by French and Russian scholars, published in Paris in 2020 with the title Lectures russes de Pascal. Hier et aujourd’hui. This title already reveals in itself a view on the character of the kinship of the Russian intellectuals examined with the thought of the French philosopher. ‘Readings’: therefore an approach directed more by personal fascinations than by a properly scientific interest. Exemplary can be considered the position of Tolstoy who saw Pascal’s greatest merit in moral integrity, while he clearly rejected the authority of any Church in matters of faith itself, and spoke unequivocally against the divinity of Christ. This is not to argue that the reference to Pascal by Russian philosophers and writers is superficial or occasional. The question is not so much about what is accepted and what is omitted from an author’s thought, but rather about the fact that what is accepted also acquires a different meaning in the new context. It is difficult to embrace the idea of a philosophia perennis. The lucid essentiality with which Pascal presents the contradictory nature of the human condition imposes itself, forcing to reflect even those who in some way try to ignore it. It is not, in fact, only a question of the common feeling of the precariousness of life, but of the problem that emerges from the awareness of this feeling. The question of the meaning of life and the value of thinking always remains the starting point of philosophical reflection, and it is precisely on this level that the encounter with Pascal takes place
Pascal, ou le règne de la force
No full textIf Pascal is essentially present in common representations and in the studies devoted to him as a spiritual and religious author, rarely has a thinker given force such a place in his reading of reality. In his view, it is the ‘queen of the world’, and even the queen of queens, since it governs the formidable powers of custom and imagination. We show here that Pascal’s analyses of force go far beyond the political framework in which they are generally confined. Indeed, Pascal’s reign of force seems to constitute a philosophical – as well as a scientific – thesis on the nature of reality: we live in a physical world, in a world of bodies entirely governed by force and, although we find it hard to recognise, along with concupiscence it constitutes ‘the source of all our actions’. This study thus sets out to highlight what makes Pascal a great thinker on force, one who will inspire the most daring philosophers in their speculations