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Estetizând violența totalitară: istoria alegorică a comunismului în poezia românească subversivă
Full text linkThe aim of the present research is to outline a subversive history of communism in Romania by commenting on a series of allegorical clippings from the autochthonous Aesopian poetry, assimilated as places of memory, in order to reveal how the collective trauma was artistically filtered and discursively encrypted to become accessible only to a specialized interpretive community, sensitive to the ratio between the explicit and the implicit meaning of language
Acasă, pe Cîmpia Armaghedonului di Marta Petreu
Full text linkMarta Petreu’s At Home, on the Plain of Armageddon (2011) tells the story of a Transylvanian peasant family in the 20th century, blending autobiography and fiction. The novel begins with the funeral of Mica (Maria), mother of protagonist Tabita. Mica’s marriage to Ticu (Agustin), a devout Jehovah’s Witness, is unhappy: Mica grows hard and resentful, while Ticu finds solace in his belief in the Second Coming. Through this family’s intimate struggles, Petreu reflects on the larger history of Transylvania, religious conversion, and the burdens of faith. The novel is a poignant exploration of the tensions within family, faith, and human resilience
Gli albori del ba‘thismo tra progetto culturale e ideologia politica nella visione di Michel ‘Aflaq (1935-1945)
Full text linkThis paper examines the genesis and development of the proto-Ba‘thist ideology in Syria during the final decade of the French Mandate. It focuses specifically on the intellectual contributions of Michel ‘Aflaq, a Greco-Orthodox Damascene teacher who, influenced by European nationalist movements, formulated a modern iteration of Pan-Arabism. Exploring the nuances of ‘Aflaq’s writings, the paper analyzes his early work (1935-1945), identifying three distinct phases. First, ‘Aflaq sought to adapt and “Arabize” Western concepts and theories, applying them to the specific political context of the Middle East. Second, he attempted to synthesize Islam with Arab nationalism. Finally, he aimed to translate this Islamo-nationalist nexus into practical action in order to achieve independence from the French Mandate
Mitologie della trasparenza: il problema del linguaggio nel dialogo arabo-giudaico tra Moncef Chelli e Éliane Amado Lévy-Valensi
Full text linkThis paper aims to examine the Arab-Jewish dialogue through the intellectual exchange that took place in the 1980s-1990s between the Franco-Israeli philosopher and psychoanalyst Éliane Amado Lévy-Valensi and the Franco-Tunisian philosopher and mathematician Moncef Chelli. The primary objective is to highlight the singularity of this intellectual encounter, which is characterized by the ability of both authors to challenge and question the mediating role often played by the West in such a confrontation. The central aspect of their engagement is the issue of language: while the West has come to regard language as an entirely external and transparent tool, losing sight of its arbitrariness, the Semitic languages, by contrast, have maintained a more substantial awareness of their creative and transformative nature, offering a more critical understanding of their arbitrariness to their speaking subjects. While Hebrew and Arabic possess the potential to reveal the hidden implications of Western languages, both Chelli and Amado also call attention to their own implicit assumptions, their own blind spots, and the totalizing tendencies that emerge when their reflections on language intersect with theological discourse. Only in this mutual clarification do they finally manage to define their position between East and West with precision and more fully adhere to their identity
Dov Lerner, Berel. Human-Divine Interactions in the Hebrew Scriptures: Covenants and Cross-Purposes. London and New York: Routledge. 2024. 150 pp.
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Simbolismos compartidos. La representación de términos arquitectónicos neoplatónicos en el arte califal de al-Andalus. El diseño de la maqṣūra de al-Ḥakam II
Full text linkThe religious art of al-Andalus has been studied by the historiographical tradition from a single perspective, in its relation to Qur’anic texts and Islamic orthodoxy. However, in the cultural context where the first Islamic architecture was born, there was apparently a paradigm shift, so that the mosque architecture could be better understood in the framework of the formal and symbolic transformations that took place within the Roman canon in the Late Antiquity. This, in turn, is linked with a new conception of the sacred representation, that is conditioned by Neoplathonic philosophy and Solomonic traditions. The present article aims to explain how these aesthetics transformations could affect the Islamic oratories in the caliphal art of al-Andalus and, specifically, in al-Ḥakam II´s maqṣūra (10th century)
Tatiana Niculescu, Delicioasa poveste a cozonacului românesc, Editura Humanitas, București 2024
Full text linkViolencia cultural en Europa: herencia colonial y contranarrativas de autoras hispanoamericanas
Full text linkThe article first presents an overview related to the denunciation of symbolic forms of violence within works by female Hispanic American writers residing in Italy and Spain. After circumscribing some theoretical terms and aspects, the text also offers an analysis of Gabriela Wiener’s novel Huaco retrato (2021), which is studied as a synthesis of a cultural and epistemic violence produced by European colonialism in Latin America and whose legacy extends to the present day, showing that it also has deep roots in the private dimension
Un mediatore culturale sui generis: Ramiro Ortiz
Full text linkIn the first half of the 20th century, the philologist and literary critic Ramiro Ortiz decisively marked the field of Italian-Romanian relations, accomplishing the role of an exemplary cultural mediator. His commitment to reciprocal language teaching and the development of bilateral cultural diplomacy became an angular stone. This article is only intended to recall his personality, this time through the voices and the testimonies of his contemporaries: students, diplomats, journalists, writers, various intellectuals