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Etica, estetica e politica della vendetta in Yukio Mishima
No full textThe following essay aims to examine the different aspects of revenge as
facedin the life and work of Yukio Mishima, a famous post-war Japanese writer. The
theme of revenge is first considered as a constant narrative of his texts, where it reveals
itself as de-sire for redemption of the main characters from a condition of physical or
psychological inferiority; secondly, the element of revenge, combined with that of
sacrifice – radicalized in the seppuku committed by the author – is analysed under the
profile of a physical rebir-th and a desire for political revenge against a society giving in
on the needs of a modernitythat the writer considers guiltily devoid of the history and
traditional values of Japan
Il fiume immobile: la filosofia di Eraclito tra Oriente e Occidente
No full textNella consapevolezza di sé come sfida al tempo inesorabile, nella dimensione talora sovraesposta eppur personalissima del dolore, nell'estasi come metafora concreta dell'anima si compiono alcune vicende cruciali della vita di un essere umano. I tre saggi qui presentati si soffermano su alcuni luoghi-limite della persona, spesso oscurati dalle coltri di una modernità abituata a negare l'inspiegabile e il non evidente. Svelandone, ove possibile e con delicatezza, le caratteristiche
Teoria istituzionale della sovranità nell'Europa di Neil MacCormick
No full textThe following paper analyzes the political theory of Neil MacCormick, a prominent figure of
recent political and legal philosophy and a member of the of the European Parliament from
1999 to 2004. The article falls into three parts. The first one examines the main features of his
‘Institutional Theory of Law’ as a normative construction of commonly accepted social issues.
The second part investigates his idea of sovereignty in its main aspects (political and legal,
internal and external), deepening further on the differences between Rechstaat and
Polizeistaat and on the operative issues of the rule of law in a constitutional perspective. A
third and final part will try to ponder MacCormick's main thesis in the light of the United
Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union in June 2016 (so-called ‘brexit’)
L’utopia e i suoi volumi: profili simbolico-politici dell’architettura medioevale e rinascimentale
No full textThe following paper aims to analyse the symbolic-political structures of the utopic imaginary, particularly
focusing on the Late Medieval and Renaissance literary and architectural sources. A theoretical distinction is
preliminarily made between the concepts of “utopian genotype” and “utopian phenotype”, characterized by a
different force of attraction to the real world, as well as by different actors and forms of exercise (i.e. the
intellectual and the book; the architect and the volumes). A second paragraph deals with ideal architectures
within some famous utopian books of the Renaissance. A third and final paragraph compares the utopian vision
of the architect – on hold between an ideal model and its structural requirements – , and the contemporary will
to power of the sovereign, in turn in search of new forms of domination and control
SIMBOLO, POTERE, PERSONA. UN’ANALISI DELLA PROSPETTIVA DI GIUSEPPE LIMONE
No full textThe article outlines the main characteristics of the research of Giuseppe Limone, a contemporary Neapolitan
philosopher, particularly focusing on the symbolic implications of the relationship between political power
and legal right(s). In the first five paragraphs Limone’s theories are compared with those of some wellknown authors (Rousseau, Kelsen, Hart, Habermas, Dworkin) in order to briefly define theoretical differences and similarities; the sixth and final paragraph outlines a possible operational – i.e. from a legal standpoint – implementation of “personalism” as a philosophical perspective, conceived as a hermeneutical tool
able to equally focus and increase the protection of fundamental rights as stated in different sources of international and supranational Law
L’Immaginario collettivo di Bouchard tra società, diritto e politica
No full textThe present essay, inspired by Bouchard’s Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries by Gerard Bouchard, aims
to propose a symbolic reading of some ideological, historical, juridical and political events. Perceived as a
multifaceted set of combined symbolic forces, collective imaginary will be used as a key point to analyse the
categories of sovereignty and utopia, the eighteenth-century myth of Reason and finally some aspects of the
current socio-political scenario
L’altro come nemico: profili simbolico-politici della paranoia
No full textThis essay aims to investigate the category of “otherness” in its moment of
maximum pathology, identifying the other as a necessary enemy. I will first proceed to
examine how the psychotic projection of the other-enemy becomes, in the psychological
structure of socially defined subjects, constitutive of a further category, that of political
paranoia, consisting in the elaboration of a delusional reproductive picture of a denied
social imaginary. Secondly, I will reflect on the characteristics of two non-identical – and
indeed in some ways opposite – political declinations of paranoia: the “paranoia of the
sovereign” and the “paranoia of the masses”
Neil MacCormick e la critica delle categorie hartiane in “H. L. A. Hart
No full textThe present paper analyzes Neil MacCormick’s L. H. A. Hart, first published
in 1981, mainly dedicated to the analysis of Herbert Hart’s The Concept of Law. We will
deepen MacCormick’s explanations concerning the distinction between legal and moral
rules, primary and secondary rules, promises and power-conferring rules, internal and external point of view, as well as some key figures of Hart’s normative terminology – namely
“acceptance” and “group”. Some exclusive outputs by the Scottish philosopher – namely
the “hermeneutic point of view” and the “cutoff point” – will be also scrutinized. Finally,
we will in turn propose some adjustments to the Author’s theories
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