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    Ancora su barbarie e religione nella prospettiva di J.G.A. Pocock

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    Barbarian invasions and the spread of Christianity share the dubious honor of being reputed the main causes of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Pocock not only doubts that this interpretation is correct, but he doubts that this was Gibbon's thought. The ancient world was consumed by itself, where barbarians and Christians saved what could be saved and beaqueathed it to modern Europe. This is the fascinating subject of the last two volumes of the series 'Barbarism and Religion'

    Prussiano nazionalista ebreo: Hans-Joachim Schoeps

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    The historian of religion and ideas Hans-Joachim Schoeps (1909-1980) was an extraordinary exponent of the sincere aspiration of a lot of Jewish intellectuality and bourgeoisie to merge into the German national community, on an equal footing with the Christian majority. He and his family experienced the tragic failure of this epochal project. Yet, he did not want to give up and, even after World War II, he fought in defense of his identity as a politically conservative Prussian Jew. His almost unhidden homosexuality constitutes a further trait of the apparent contradictory nature of his figure. His intelligent fidelity to the practice of the late nineteenth-century 'Geistesgeschichte' signaled him also in the academic field as an irreducible opponent of the changed spirit of the time

    Per Claudio Cesa. Una giornata di studi pisana

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    Claudio Cesa (1928 - 2014) was an eminent Italian historian of philosophy, who devoted his research to the deepening of important subjects like German Idealism from Kant to Hegel, Hegelian Left, Italian modern philosophical tradition. His personality and his work have been illustrated by M. Moretti, C. De Pascale, G. Cantillo, M. Mori, F. Tomasoni, A. Savorelli and G. Bonacina in a conference held in Pisa in Autumn 2017

    Rinascimento filosofico in India?

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    Starting with the encounter of European colonizers with the ancient Sanskrit literature, India has been perceived in the West as the country possibly closer to steal from Greece the role as cradle of philosophy. But the question on the effects of modern Western philosophy on Indian philosophy is still unespressed from our point of view. We can learn something more from a recent study on the so-called "Indian philosophical Renaissance"

    Guerra senza pace ? The "War against the West" di Aurel Kolnai

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    Aurel Kolnai has recently been reappreciated for his phenomenological investigations of aversive feelings and for his political insights into utopic philosophy, though he first became famous for "The War against the West" (1938), a unique overview of the spiritual foundations of nationalsocialism. For him, the Second World War was the armed continuation of a moral war that Germany, now through the Third Reich, had been fighting against the Western society since Luther’s times. For this reason, his warning against the threat posed by Hitler’s regime for Europe could not contemplate reconciliation and, despite its lucidity, it betrays the limit that a prominently ideological reading of political-military conflicts, even if with a more cultural slant, invariably carries along

    Un modello di esercizio della storia della filosofia

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    Claudio Cesa has never devoted a full treatise to questions of method for philosophical historiography, yet he has left several observations on this topic throughout his rich production as a scholar: on categories such as “classic German philosophy”, or “Hegelian school,” considered in their hermeneutic meaning; on the relationship between theory and history in the work of the historian; on the need of protecting the historiographic narration of facts and the philosophical explanation of particular categories, beyond the study of the documents
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