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Interpretazione e improvvisazione nell’estetica della formatività di Luigi Pareyson
Get PDFThe paper discusses the so-called “theory of formativity” developed by the existential philosopher Luigi Pareyson in his 1954 book “Estetica. Teoria della formatività” and other coeval essays based on aesthetics. In particular, it focuses on the above mentioned theory by exploring two closely-linked concepts: “improvisation” and “interpretation”, showing their profound liaison, especially from an aesthetic, hermeneutical and ontological point of view. In fact, Pareyson\u27s theory of formativity can be described as “metaphysics of figuration”, “hermeneutics of art” and original relationship to being and truth.
 
Per un Illuminismo semovente
Get PDFEnlightenment is not only a movement that happened in history and that would have just left a trace in it, but is also a self-moving process which constitutes our own history. And we respond to this process with an attitude of changing conjugation of times, and an always precarious embodiment of a useful fiction for collective live, what we call democracy. In addition to this, the expressions that surround the exaggerated name Enlightenment (Illuminismo, in Italian) show the intention of the essay: to defend the current appropriateness and the encouragement of a left-wing intellectual attitude
La deriva del mitologo? Una polemica romantica
Get PDFThe study provides an overview of the well-known controversy about Friedrich Creuzer’s Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker, besonders der Griechen, seen from the point of view of classical philology. Particular attention is paid to the position of Gottfried Hermann, and to the role he reserved to language in the study of myth, in the context of the epistemological controversies that dominated the classical studies in Germany during the XIXth century
Introduction
Get PDFMultiform witness of the power of language, the myth reveals itself as a privileged form of investigation of the human and its transformations. With this introduction we want to start a journey of mythological research that, overcoming the sterile reduction of the myth to mere expression of a pre-scientific and pre-rational mentality, moves in search of the core of truth hidden under the surface of the "fairy tale"
Dall’allegoria all’allegoresi. Il contributo degli Stoici
No full textThis paper aims to provide an excurcus on the presence and use of allegorical interpretation in Stoicism. In particular, Stoic philosophy represents a key moment for the evolution of the allegory in allegoresis, that is to say, as a systematic and rational interpretation of symbols and myths
Sick Spontaneity. Madness and Pathology in the PhilosophyofFélix Ravaisson
Get PDFIn Ravaisson’s philosophy, the concept of spontaneity refers to the first, basic and organic form of improvisation. Nature consists in fact of a rational law of development named habit, that regulates all movements, summarizing the external impulsions and the internal penchants in the form of spontaneous activity. However the insertion of spontaneity in nature determines the appearance of unpredictability and negativity in life’s productions, like organic and psychical pathologies. Ravaisson will try to show how this morbid spontaneity belongs to nature’s rationality
Dialectical Interpretation and Exact Fantasy.On the System in Adorno
Get PDFAdorno’s negative dialectics wants to free the thought from the dictates of the system, taking position against the illusion to grasp the essence of reality by logic. Against that false idea of totality, Adorno devises a philosophy of fragment, a logic of disgregation that presupposes a different concept of totality: a fragmented, scattered and conflicting wholeness. The anti systematic thinking of Adorno is configured, however, as a systematic rejection of any systematic formulation: philosophy can at most claiming a pretension to truth by the practice of interpretation. A dialectic configuration of fragments of totality is at stake here: so, the arrangement of such fragments can both produce an image of reality endowed with meaning and also unfold through heterogeneous combinations that are not definitive, but always renewable from time to time. In Adorno’s reflection are so expressed two different instances which are complementary at the same time: on the one hand it represents the critical and negative element against the system and its hybris, on the other hand it expresses the need of the thought to go beyond and overcome that fragmentation, showing how the need of unity of the system is a need of the thought in itself
‘Mind the Gap’. L\u27improvvisazione come azione intenzionale
Get PDFIn this paper I aim at discussing the following questions: is improvisation an intentional action? If it is an intentional action, in what sense is improvisation intentional? Can improvisation contribute to the understanding of intentional action? I will argue that improvisation is not a bizarre case of action or a weakened action, but an intentional action in the proper sense (provided with some specific properties). Moreover, improvisation exemplifies key features of intentional action as such
Improvvisare una stabilità senza equilibrio. La complessità come antidoto all’uomo automatico.
Get PDFThe present essay aims at showing how the continuous improvement of biotechnology and nanotechnology causes an artificial redesign of human nature. This artificial redesign implies the idea of homo cyborg, the concept of which, as developed by some post-human movements, sees man as future maker of himself. The distinguishing features of homo cyborg are the autonomy of rationality and the rejection of physical limitations. The present essay is articulated in the following three parts: 1) analysis of the main points of view which mark the contemporary rationalistic and systematic hermeneutics of man and his behaviors; 2) illustration of the impossibility for this hermeneutics to adhere to the essence of life, the peculiarity of which exceeds the interpretative prerogative of man; 3) explanation of the concepts of “indeterminateness” and “crossroad” as keywords of human nature, that preserve creativity and improvisation as fundamental pedagogical means of improvement of human ability.
 
System and Reflexivity: the Russell or Bradley Paradox?
Get PDFIn this article, the Author analyses the Bradleian concept of contradiction and the thesis herewith proposed consists in thinking that the so-called «Russell’s antinomy», one of the most popular and most discussed theoretical points in the modern and contemporary philosophy, is rooted or better is implied in Bradley’s system. The Author argues that, formulating and presenting it at Frege, Russell articulated a question opening a consequent philosophic perspective already conceptually implied by Bradley’s theory of relations