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Redes aristocráticas en el Mediterráneo occidental helenístico. Roma y Cartago como modelo
Get PDFThe present work explores the intricate commercial networks operating in the Hellenistic-Roman Mediterranean, specifically articulated through economic elites. One of these networks connected the Roman aristocracy with its Carthaginian counterpart. This phenomenon is observable both in the historical development of relations between the two states and in the emergence of individual connections within these social groups. The study argues that these relationships could have been forged through diplomatic contacts established under the foedera between Rome and Carthage, the first of which was sealed in 509 B.C. The public hospitality inherent in this context would have laid the groundwork for privata hospitia agreements among specific families, which persisted during the Punic Wars era.El presente trabajo explora las complejas redes comerciales que operaban en el Mediterráneo helenístico-romano y que se articulaban específicamente a través de las élites económicas. Uno de estos tejidos conectaba a la aristocracia romana con su contraparte cartaginesa. Tal fenómeno puede observarse tanto en el desarrollo histórico de las relaciones entre ambos estados como en la aparición de vínculos individuales entre componentes de estos grupos sociales. El estudio postula que estas relaciones pudieron generarse a partir de los contactos diplomáticos forjados a raíz de los foedera entre Roma y Cartago, el primero de ellos sellado en 509 a.C. La hospitalidad pública inherente a este contexto habría sentado las bases de los pactos de hospitia privata entre determinadas familias, que permanecían vigentes en época de las guerras púnicas
The Brief Philosophy
Get PDFThe essay intends to propose a reflection on the philosophical writing and style discussing Emil Cioran's thought, based mainly on the conversations and interviews in which the Franco-Romanian philosopher offered notable interpretative keys on this theme. With this contribution we attempt to articulate philosophical writing as a lógos which, starting from sensation, from life in the most direct way in which it is perceived, expresses existence, with the aim of freeing it from the evils that grip it.The essay intends to propose a reflection on the philosophical writing and style discussing Emil Cioran's thought, based mainly on the conversations and interviews in which the Franco-Romanian philosopher offered notable interpretative keys on this theme. With this contribution we attempt to articulate philosophical writing as a lógos which, starting from sensation, from life in the most direct way in which it is perceived, expresses existence, with the aim of freeing it from the evils that grip it
Of a Removal
Get PDFA book written in 1938 by a German jurist, philosopher and essayist, Walter Schubart, emerges from a tragic past that we deem distant, and forces us, more than eighty years later, to question problematically our present day. The profound contradictions of that time have not been resolved, and the same spectres for the same and new nightmares play on the scene. The text is reread and interpreted to bring out what were for Schubart the crucial junctures of the conflict not only between Russia and Europe but also between West and East, in search of a possible synthesis glimpsed by the author himself when in the conclusion he uses a metaphor: Europe is the vat, Russia the wine, each needs the other. The current geopolitical context is certainly not moving in that direction. But have other perspectives or other ways of interpreting such conflicts and thus other implicit solutions presented themselves between those two worlds? Poignant from this point of view may be the intense work of Pavel Florensky – considered only very marginally by Schubart. In the interweavings of theology, philosophy, science, linguistics and art, Florensky opens up to a profound reworking of both Western and Eastern culture, showing that the conflict can be recomposed on the scene by getting rid of spectres.A book written in 1938 by a German jurist, philosopher and essayist, Walter Schubart, emerges from a tragic past that we deem distant, and forces us, more than eighty years later, to question problematically our present day. The profound contradictions of that time have not been resolved, and the same spectres for the same and new nightmares play on the scene. The text is reread and interpreted to bring out what were for Schubart the crucial junctures of the conflict not only between Russia and Europe but also between West and East, in search of a possible synthesis glimpsed by the author himself when in the conclusion he uses a metaphor: Europe is the vat, Russia the wine, each needs the other. The current geopolitical context is certainly not moving in that direction. But have other perspectives or other ways of interpreting such conflicts and thus other implicit solutions presented themselves between those two worlds? Poignant from this point of view may be the intense work of Pavel Florensky – considered only very marginally by Schubart. In the interweavings of theology, philosophy, science, linguistics and art, Florensky opens up to a profound reworking of both Western and Eastern culture, showing that the conflict can be recomposed on the scene by getting rid of spectres
Florensky
Get PDFThis article traces Florensky’s intellectual biography. The author underlines that, more than his numerous scientific, philosophical, theological, mystical works, his most important and imperishable message is the heroic elevation of his Christian testimony in the gulag. Florensky transfigures the “night” with the achievement of a higher spiritual dimension, which he calls “the art of gratuitousness”, of the pure disinterested gift of oneself to God and others, that gratuitousness which is synonymous with grace and beauty.This article traces Florensky’s intellectual biography. The author underlines that, more than his numerous scientific, philosophical, theological, mystical works, his most important and imperishable message is the heroic elevation of his Christian testimony in the gulag. Florensky transfigures the “night” with the achievement of a higher spiritual dimension, which he calls “the art of gratuitousness”, of the pure disinterested gift of oneself to God and others, that gratuitousness which is synonymous with grace and beauty
Bruchstellen einer diachronen Erfahrung
Get PDFExperience is investigated according to those breaking points where the unexpected surfaces and the surprise of the extraordinary and the alien breaks through. What happens is always in the postponement between pathos and response; this represents the fundamental agreement of a responsive phenomenology: it is never a quiet succession, but always something arriving too early or too late. Threshold experiences such as hesitation, delay, waiting, pausing, stumbling are investigated in this framework.
Experience is investigated according to those breaking points where the unexpected surfaces and the surprise of the extraordinary and the alien breaks through. What happens is always in the postponement between pathos and response; this represents the fundamental agreement of a responsive phenomenology: it is never a quiet succession, but always something arriving too early or too late. Threshold experiences such as hesitation, delay, waiting, pausing, stumbling are investigated in this framework
Between the Visible and the Invisible
Get PDFIn this contribution I will attempt to sketch a phenomenology of dreaming in what appear to be its most important characterisations: for example, a specific (a)temporality, an essential ineffability, its relation to the waking world and a particular causality. In order to do this, I will be guided by two authors – Maria Zambrano and Maurice Merleau-Ponty – who seems to be apparently distant but who share a vision of dreaming as a life-world in continuity with the waking world, which is comprehensible only by adopting a non-rational gaze, such as that offered by poetry and myth. The final aim will be to rehabilitate the dreaming experience as a lived one, able to express deep subjective meanings.In this contribution I will attempt to sketch a phenomenology of dreaming in what appear to be its most important characterisations: for example, a specific (a)temporality, an essential ineffability, its relation to the waking world and a particular causality. In order to do this, I will be guided by two authors – Maria Zambrano and Maurice Merleau-Ponty – who seems to be apparently distant but who share a vision of dreaming as a life-world in continuity with the waking world, which is comprehensible only by adopting a non-rational gaze, such as that offered by poetry and myth. The final aim will be to rehabilitate the dreaming experience as a lived one, able to express deep subjective meanings
Responding to the Appeal of Those Who Are not (yet) There
Get PDFIntergenerational justice represents a crucial theme in the on-going debate in ethics, politics and law. In what follows, I would like to show that a determined phenomenological perspective drawing from the motive of alterity can shed new light on such a topic. Importantly, my concern will be to display how this approach can provide a thorough justificatory underpinning for a responsibility towards future generations, while denouncing the main shortcomings that mainstream approaches reveal when dealing with this issue.Intergenerational justice represents a crucial theme in the on-going debate in ethics, politics and law. In what follows, I would like to show that a determined phenomenological perspective drawing from the motive of alterity can shed new light on such a topic. Importantly, my concern will be to display how this approach can provide a thorough justificatory underpinning for a responsibility towards future generations, while denouncing the main shortcomings that mainstream approaches reveal when dealing with this issue
Childless dystopia. L’estinzione dell’umanità attraverso una prospettiva femminile
Get PDFAmong the many subgenres of dystopian science fiction, there is at least one that seems to be typically female: the childless dystopia. This type of novel finds its premises both in male dystopian literature and, above all, in the reality of the female authors. In fact, since the third wave of feminism in particular, there has been a decline in the birth rate, which is often attributed to women’s new lifestyle. The comparison between the novels under consideration allows us to outline the themes that are common to all the authors, in order to criticize the patriarchal culture and the predetermined role of women in society.Tra i numerosi sottogeneri della fantascienza distopica ce n'è almeno uno che sembra essere tipicamente femminile: la childless dystopia. Questo genere di romanzi trova le sue premesse tanto nella letteratura distopica maschile quanto, soprattutto, nella realtà delle autrici. Infatti, specie a seguito della terza ondata femminista, si è registrato un calo delle nascite, spesso attribuito al nuovo stile di vita adottato dalle donne. Il confronto tra i romanzi considerati consente di delineare temi comuni alle quattro scrittrici considerate, sviluppando una critica nei confronti della cultura patriarcale e del ruolo prestabilito della donna nella società