Annali online Unife (Università degli Studi di Ferrara)
Not a member yet
1987 research outputs found
Sort by
Al margine di due infiniti: Appunti di antropologia filosofica
No full textThe aim of this essay is to discuss the concept of “phenomenological anthropology”. The problem is reconstructing how philosophical anthropology, sociology, cultural anthropology, and various trends of phenomenology tried giving an answer to the anthropological question. The first part will be dedicated to a discussion of anthropology in Husserl, the second part will deal with the concept of lifeworld and its use in sociological and anthropological practice, the third part will discuss the problem of embodiment.Lo scopo di questo saggio è discutere il concetto di “antropologia fenomenologica”. Il problema è ricostruire come antropologia filosofica, sociologia, antropologia culturale e varie tendenze della fenomenologia hanno provato a dare una risposta alla questione antropologica. La prima parte sarà dedicata a una discussione dell’antropologia in Husserl, la seconda al concetto di “mondo della vita” e il suo uso in ambiti sociologici e antropologici. La terza tratterà infine del tema dell’incorporazione
Nuove normatività a partire da Merleau-Ponty: tra dialogo sonoro e disabilità
No full textThis work proposes to analyse the themes of norm and normality in relation to the phenomenological models of Disability Studies and starting from the analysis of the dialogo sonoro read through the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Georges Canguilhem. The aim is to conceptualise an individual norm that, in order to be, does not have to refer to the categories of the so-called normed subject (thus to pre-established theoretical filters), hence, to examine the gaps in the overlap between the reflections of the phenomenological models of Disability Studies and the work of Merleau-Ponty.Il presente lavoro si propone di analizzare i temi della norma e della normalità in relazione ai modelli fenomenologici dei Disability Studies e a partire dall\u27analisi del dialogo sonoro letto attraverso le opere di Maurice Merleau-Ponty e di Georges Canguilhem. L\u27obiettivo è quello di concettualizzare una norma individuale che, per essere, non deve fare riferimento alle categorie del cosiddetto soggetto normo dotato (quindi a filtri teorici precostituiti), dunque di esaminare le lacune nella sovrapposizione tra le riflessioni dei modelli fenomenologici dei Disability Studies e l\u27opera di Merleau-Ponty
AGOSTINO CERA, A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene: Discovering Terra Incognita, London: Lexington Books, 2023, p. 217, € 86,66. ISBN 978-17-9363-081-0
No full textGEOGRAFIA IRREQUIETA: TRA FILOSOFIA, FOTOGRAFIA E DANZA: Resoconto degli incontri organizzati dall’Università degli Studi di Ferrara in occasione della “Giornata mondiale della geografia”
No full textLUIGI PELLIZZONI, EMANUELE LEONARDI, VIVIANA ASARA (eds.), Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics
No full textRecensione a LUIGI PELLIZZONI, EMANUELE LEONARDI, VIVIANA ASARA (eds.), Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics, Cheltenham/Northampton: Elgar, 2022, p. 629, £ 240,00. ISBN 978-1-83910-066-6
«Imagi(ni)ng Technologies»: On Don Ihde’s Postphenomenological Account of Technoscience: What is It Really Made of?
No full textDon Ihde (1934-2024) has been one of the most influential philosophers of science and technology in the last five decades. Deeply influenced by Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, Ihde developed what he labelled postphenomenology, i.e., a doctrine offering a phenomenological account of the ever-increasing impact of technology on our daily lives. In his reading, technological supports such as material tools and cultural artefacts allow us to broaden the scope of our gaze and, likewise, to extend the range of our knowledge undefinedly. According to what he outlined as the empirical turn characterizing the postphenomenological agenda, Ihde argued for the «technological trajectory» leading technoscientific drive consolidating the embodied and material hermeneutic processes that corroborate and exceed the constitutive and natural «limits of human vision» (Ihde 2009, 52-56). For him, current technological capacities enable us to detect unseen phenomena, i.e., previously invisible things, when employing our bare and unaided eyes. This equally applies to visual analogies and isomorphisms, i.e., the telescopic or microscopic image rendering of very small or huge things, which are nowadays visible through special lenses, and to more sophisticated hermeneutic translations, as it is apparent in the case of radio astronomy, for instance, representing a «new way of bringing close something that is both spatially and perceptually distant» (Ihde 2009, 56). For Ihde, seeing what was invisible just a few years ago results from a cumulative and communal process spanning multiple generations of interpreters and cultures in its progressive formation and constant improvement. Moreover, it is an outcome that is always provisional, perfectible, and achievable only through technological media. However, it is not just about that. Seeing what was invisible, presents challenges we can only meet by employing these renewed hermeneutic interpretation tools. In a way, we only understand what is seeable (Heidegger 1976, 349-352). Indeed, this tele-vision is only temporally and technologically attained, and more than a synchronic rendering would be needed to justify it. As Ihde holds, only a diachronic vision can work out, and this is possible when science is «technically embodied» and becomes «technoscience» (Ihde 2016, 80). For him and his visual hermeneutics, this enhanced understanding of the world enables us to grasp multifaceted phenomena like the greenhouse effect (and to deal with them accordingly). Indeed, this singularity would be incomprehensible for a single subject or a unique generation of scientists working on its discovery. My contribution aims to pay tribute to Ihde’s work just months after his passing by showing the main features of his postphenomenological empirical turn and proving their consistency (or not).Don Ihde (1934-2024) has been one of the most influential philosophers of science and technology in the last five decades. Deeply influenced by Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, Ihde developed what he labelled postphenomenology, i.e., a doctrine offering a phenomenological account of the ever-increasing impact of technology on our daily lives. In his reading, technological supports such as material tools and cultural artefacts allow us to broaden the scope of our gaze and, likewise, to extend the range of our knowledge undefinedly. According to what he outlined as the empirical turn characterizing the postphenomenological agenda, Ihde argued for the «technological trajectory» leading technoscientific drive consolidating the embodied and material hermeneutic processes that corroborate and exceed the constitutive and natural «limits of human vision» (Ihde 2009, 52-56). For him, current technological capacities enable us to detect unseen phenomena, i.e., previously invisible things, when employing our bare and unaided eyes. This equally applies to visual analogies and isomorphisms, i.e., the telescopic or microscopic image rendering of very small or huge things, which are nowadays visible through special lenses, and to more sophisticated hermeneutic translations, as it is apparent in the case of radio astronomy, for instance, representing a «new way of bringing close something that is both spatially and perceptually distant» (Ihde 2009, 56). For Ihde, seeing what was invisible just a few years ago results from a cumulative and communal process spanning multiple generations of interpreters and cultures in its progressive formation and constant improvement. Moreover, it is an outcome that is always provisional, perfectible, and achievable only through technological media. However, it is not just about that. Seeing what was invisible, presents challenges we can only meet by employing these renewed hermeneutic interpretation tools. In a way, we only understand what is seeable (Heidegger 1976, 349-352). Indeed, this tele-vision is only temporally and technologically attained, and more than a synchronic rendering would be needed to justify it. As Ihde holds, only a diachronic vision can work out, and this is possible when science is «technically embodied» and becomes «technoscience» (Ihde 2016, 80). For him and his visual hermeneutics, this enhanced understanding of the world enables us to grasp multifaceted phenomena like the greenhouse effect (and to deal with them accordingly). Indeed, this singularity would be incomprehensible for a single subject or a unique generation of scientists working on its discovery. My contribution aims to pay tribute to Ihde’s work just months after his passing by showing the main features of his postphenomenological empirical turn and proving their consistency (or not)
Comic Ideas: Reimagining Philosophical Practice in the Digital Age
No full textThe paper claims that our increasingly visual mediascape opens up the possibility of imagining new ways of doing philosophy that take place through the medium of image at least as much as through the medium of word. Section 1 introduces the general question of the change of habits associated with the transition from page/word to screen/image, challenging the traditional skepticism regarding the cognitive reliability of images. Section 2 discusses the limits of the idea that screens are unavoidably destined to have a lethal impact on philosophical thinking, emphasizing how this conviction risks excluding philosophy from the novel cognitive ecology cultivated by the internet. Section 3 examines the conditions of possibility of «comicepts» – philosophical concepts created and communicated by leveraging the specific features of comics as a medium. Section 4 concludes by making a plea for a more liberal and inclusive philosophical practice based on the decoupling of “concept” and “verbal concept”.The paper claims that our increasingly visual mediascape opens up the possibility of imagining new ways of doing philosophy that take place through the medium of image at least as much as through the medium of word. Section 1 introduces the general question of the change of habits associated with the transition from page/word to screen/image, challenging the traditional skepticism regarding the cognitive reliability of images. Section 2 discusses the limits of the idea that screens are unavoidably destined to have a lethal impact on philosophical thinking, emphasizing how this conviction risks excluding philosophy from the novel cognitive ecology cultivated by the internet. Section 3 examines the conditions of possibility of «comicepts» – philosophical concepts created and communicated by leveraging the specific features of comics as a medium. Section 4 concludes by making a plea for a more liberal and inclusive philosophical practice based on the decoupling of “concept” and “verbal concept”.
Augmented Imagination: Thinking Technology Beyond Extension
No full textThis article seeks to unravel the relationship between technicity and imagination, asking whether the latter can be extended by technologies or whether it risks being desensitised by its contact with technical prostheses. Augmented Reality (AR) will provide an emblematic case study to showing how the activity of imagination is not merely extended through technological devices, but is rather a material process that occurs when we are actively engaged in the manipulation and exploration of the world. The analysis of AR will then allow us to put to the test the theoretical model of extension that has dominated reflection within the philosophy of technology over the last two centuries. Maintaining that technical behaviour does not precede the manipulation of objects, but rather emerges from our encounter with sensible matter, the article will argue that imagination is always already externalized, always “outside” of us, as it is constantly reconfigured in the relationship with the environment and especially with technologies and media.This article seeks to unravel the relationship between technicity and imagination, asking whether the latter can be extended by technologies or whether it risks being desensitised by its contact with technical prostheses. Augmented Reality (AR) will provide an emblematic case study to showing how the activity of imagination is not merely extended through technological devices, but is rather a material process that occurs when we are actively engaged in the manipulation and exploration of the world. The analysis of AR will then allow us to put to the test the theoretical model of extension that has dominated reflection within the philosophy of technology over the last two centuries. Maintaining that technical behaviour does not precede the manipulation of objects, but rather emerges from our encounter with sensible matter, the article will argue that imagination is always already externalized, always “outside” of us, as it is constantly reconfigured in the relationship with the environment and especially with technologies and media
La protezione dei legami familiari in caso di violenza domestica
No full textThe paper analyses the subject of the disastrous effect of domestic violence on family relationships, in particular when the violence results in the murder of a parent through the other one. The article presents the legal remedies may be put in place in order to protect the child and his identity, moving from the institutes provided by the legisla-ture and then examining the jurisprudence both of Italian Supreme Court and of the Constitutional Court, in this case with a specific focus to the decision n. 183 of 28 September 2023.Il contributo analizza il tema del devastante impatto della violenza domestica sulle relazioni familiari, in special modo quando la violenza sfocia nell’uccisione di un genitore per mano dell’altro. L’articolo passa, così, in rassegna i rimedi che il diritto minorile può mettere in atto a protezione del minore e della sua identità, muovendo dagli istituti di creazione legislativa e poi esaminando la giurisprudenza sia di Cassazione che della Corte Costituzionale, in tal caso con specifico riferimento alla sentenza del 28 settembre 2023, n. 183.  
L’orientamento alle professioni educative nel tempo dell’emergenza
No full textAbstract – The article explores the topic of career orientation towards educational professions, highlighting several issues related to the current state of educational work and the profiles of students enrolling in the L-19 BA study program. Firstly, the analysis of the job market for educational professions reveals a shortage of qualified personnel, driven by various factors that make this career path less appealing. This situation is further complicated by overlapping regulations and professional profiles. Secondly, the article examines the characteristics of students enrolled in Education Degree Program at the University of Trieste, revealing starting conditions marked by fragility and insecurity, as well as simplistic perceptions of the study program and the overall professional field.Riassunto – L’articolo indaga il tema dell’orientamento alle professioni educative a partire da alcune criticità che riguardano le attuali condizioni del lavoro educativo e le caratteristiche degli studenti che si iscrivono al corso di studio nella classe L-19. Rispetto al primo punto, l’analisi del mercato delle professioni educative fa rilevare una carenza di personale qualificato giustificata in realtà da una serie di fattori che non rendono particolarmente attraente questo sbocco, in un quadro reso ancor più complesso da sovrapposizioni normative e di profili non facili da decifrare. Il secondo aspetto, invece, si riferisce ad una lettura effettuata sugli studenti iscritti al corso di laurea in Scienze dell’Educazione presso l’Università di Trieste dalla quale emergono condizioni già in partenza caratterizzate da fragilità e insicurezza, nonché rappresentazioni del corso di studio e dell’ambito professionale molto ingenue