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Croce e Gentile: elogio di un'amicizia
No full textThis article deals with the issue of the relationship between Croce and Gentile in an innovative perspective: besides and beyond their works, also the ‘individual’ and ‘existential’ dimension of the two authors is emphasized. The research is based on the theoretical conviction that, in Goethe’s words (taken up again by Dilthey and Meinecke), individuum est ineffabile. Three consequences derive from this principle: 1. a more accurate consideration of the dimension of the individual; 2. the questioning of the relation between individual, author, works; 3. the utilization – on a methodological level – of letters, diaries, private documents as well as of textual variants, i.e. what Croce used to call ‘scartafacci’. As a result, the relationship between Croce and Gentile takes on a new shape and, beside being situated in the framework of Italian history and of political contrasts, is reconsidered in its strictly philosophical and existentialist features, centering on the theme of ‘friendship’
Procacci interprete di Machiavelli
No full textThe aim of this essay is to delineate the main and most significant features of Procacci’s interpretation of Machiavelli: first, his intentional disengagement from certain ideological readings of the Secretary’s works which were widespread in Italy in the period between WWI and the Fascist era. Second, his reevaluation of the unity of Machiavelli’s thought, against the traditional and out-of-date contrast between The Prince and the Discourses on Livy. Third, his portrait of Machiavelli as a key author in modern culture and civilization. Within this framework, this essay also intends to highlight some characteristics of Procacci’s approach which, in light of the recent scholarship on Machiavelli and on Humanistic and Renaissance thought, now appear as shortcomings
Giordano Bruno. Il teatro della vita
No full textThis volume intends to present an innovative interpretation of Giordano Bruno’s life, organically entwining autobiography, biography, and philosophy; this work is based on the recent discoveries concerning Bruno’s life and the process of creation and dissemination of his works. One of the main features of this book is represented by the interpretation of Bruno as a great European intellectual, and by the insistence on the importance of his peregrination across Europe – from Naples to Oxford, Wittenberg, Venice. This book is a philosophical biography which, pointing out the peculiar connection between ‘man’ and ‘author’ in Bruno’s thought, on the one hand shows the intrinsic theatrical character of Bruno’s philosophical oeuvre, and on the other describes the deep entanglement of his personal experience and his persuasion of the universal extent of his own destiny, in a constant tension which dramatically explodes during the trial and when Bruno faces death. Examining Bruno’s trial, this study dissents from the traditional idealistic interpretations which are centred on the identification of philosophy and biography; in fact, the analysis shows that Bruno’s attitude towards death was very complex and tormented, and that Bruno’s decision to die was the result of a long personal battle and of the clear consciousness of what the real power relations were at the end of the year 1599
Iniziative del Comitato Nazionale per le celebrazioni del IV Centenario della morte di Giordano Bruno
No full textAsini e pedanti. Ricerche su Giordano Bruno (con un'appendice sui rapporti tra Bruno e Lutero)
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