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Tra apparenza ed eternità. Il significato del mito in Friedrich Nietzsche ed Ernst Jünger
No full textTaking some remarks of W.F. Otto as a starting point, this paper aims at providing a thorough
assessment of the common features and the differences between the understanding and the
use of myth in the works of F. Nietzsche and E. Jünger. For both authors, the symbolic quality
of myth is key, because myth, by means of its powerful and disturbing images, is able to
express a richer and more complex world experience. Throughout Nietzsche’s production it
becomes more and more clear that in his view myth and art in general don’t have anything to
do with «superior revelations»: they intersect with philosophy and become a self-conscious
and critical construction of truth, which is always, somehow, a form of narration. In Jünger,
instead, art (myth), philosophy and theology are seen as the three great powers that witness
human beings’ participation to eternity: they give to those who are able to be individuals and
to overcome the fear of death, the possibility to withstand the nihilistic vortex of time
"Sulle più remote montagne". Pensare e poetare in Heidegger
No full textThe aim of this article is to study in depth the relationship between thought and poetry in Heidegger’s philosophy. This relationship must be explained in connection to Hölderlin, because it is first and foremost Hölderlin’s poetic work that lets Heidegger understand the importance of the dialogue between thought and poetry – a dialogue that is paramount in overcoming metaphysics. As the chiasmus of dichtendes Denken and denkende Dichtung shows, thought and poetry are very close and deeply interconnected in Heidegger’s view, because they are both prominent experiences of the essence of language. At the same time, however, the chiasmus points to a distinction. As a matter of fact, Heidegger never loses sight of the fundamental difference between thought and poetry. On the contrary, he is persuaded that only the acknowledgement of this fundamental difference can provide a fruitful dialogue
Werner Herzog, "Guida per i perplessi. Nuovi incontri alla fine del mondo"
No full textQuesto libro getta luce sull'intricata rete di relazioni che lega Herzog ai suoi film e ai suoi protagonisti, offre uno spaccato sullo sguardo e sulle idee di un protagonista della storia del cinema, e dona una preziosa occasione d'incontro con terre e popoli remoti. Ma soprattutto costituisce una riflessione con pochi uguali sul rapporto tra fiction e documentario, tra arte e vita, tra immaginario e realtà
"Koyaanisqatsi": per una meditazione visiva sull'ambiente tecnico
No full textOften misunderstood as supporting a regressive and anti-modern environmentalism, Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi (1982) represents, together with the other two chapters of the trilogy, Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002), one of the broadest meditations on contemporary technology. Moving from a consideration of the intellectual influences pointed out by the director, namely Jacques Ellul, it is possible to better understand how Reggio visually articulates his reflection, which aims at overcoming the anthropological-instrumental (subjectivist) understanding of technology (or techno-science) and to grasp the post-humanist potential disclosed by the technological environment
Recensione a Richard Eldridge, "Werner Herzog. Filmmaker and philosopher", London, Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 221
No full textReview of Richard Eldridge, "Werner Herzog. Filmmaker and Philosopher", London, Bloomsbury, 201
Diving in the Sanctuary. Scientific knowledge and the representation of scientists in Werner Herzog’s films
Full text linkThe overwhelming presence of scientists is one of the most striking feature of Herzog’s recent “documentaries”. This would be all but normal, were we talking about plain documentaries. However, as Herzog has repeatedly pointed out, there is no difference, in the filmmaker’s body of work, between fiction films and documentaries. What is at stake is, according to Herzog, “ecstatic truth”. From this point of view, the way in which scientists are portrayed is particularly relevant. Herzog is deeply interested in their emotions, in their life-experience, in their aims and dreams; in other words, in what lays at the foundation and drives their scientific work. In Herzog’s films science is no abstract knowledge, it is always embodied, it is depicted as something genuinely human, connected to the ability of seeing and feeling imaginatively
Il poeta come amico di casa: Heidegger e Hebel
No full textThe poet as friend of the house: Heidegger and Hebel
The Swabian poet Hebel is for Heidegger the poet of the Heimat, in a way that is both close to and far apart from the poetic experience of another Swabian poet, Friedrich Hölderlin. At the center of Hebel’s Alemannic lyric poems (Alemannische Gedichte) lies the nostalgia for his homeland. This nostalgia, in Heidegger’s view, lets the presence of the homeland disclose itself in a fuller, and thus more essential, fashion. That’s because the presencing is experienced as one with the absencing. This kind of presence reveals the very
heart of what it means to dwell in the homeland. The essential homeland is for Heidegger “nature”, not in the modern sense, but rather in the Greek sense of physis, the arising and emerging that lets things be in their presence. The essential homeland is therefore being itself in its fundamental proximity to the human being. The Heimat appears as such in language, and precisely in poetic language. Hebel writes in Alemannic dialect: in Heidegger’s view his poetry discloses the essence of dialect as the essence of language itself. It’s only
moving from this background, that Hebel, according to Heidegger, has been able to write the beautiful prose of the calendar stories for the Rheinländischer Hausfreund
La Via dell'Essere di Heidegger
No full textLa Via dell’Essere di Heidegger, secondo volume di una trilogia dedicata da Richard Capobianco al pensiero di Martin Heidegger, chiarisce la fondamentale importanza dell’Essere come radioso affiorare e manifestarsi. Il libro riporta al centro dell’attenzione l’originalità e la peculiarità della riflessione di Heidegger sull’Essere e costituisce un’enfatica presa di posizione nei confronti di interpretazioni contemporanee che insistono solo su un’analisi trascendentale, linguistica o pragmatica. Le considerazioni vivide e spesso poetiche di Capobianco mirano a evocare nel lettore l’esperienza stessa dell’Essere – o, come lui preferisce chiamarla, la Via dell’Essere – e ci invitano a indugiare e meditare sul modo in cui la nostra via umana partecipa alla Via dell’Essere
«Fever Dreams»: Werner Herzog and Philosophy
No full textAs growing interest in his films clearly proves, Werner Herzog is one of the leading figures in contemporary cinema and art in general. Philosophy, and aesthetics in particular, can find in him a strategic point of reference, by considering the density of thought that is expressively manifested in his works
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