22 research outputs found
La rappresentazione del Parlamento
No full textThe paper aims to show the relationship beetwen parlamentary publicity, democratic principle and representative principle. Then, the author tries to investigate if the new forms of publicity of parlamentary acts are an able answer to the crisis of representa- tion in constitutional democracy
La rappresentanza politica. Note sul rapporto di prossimità ‘divergente’ tra processo e valore (di legge)
No full textThe paper aims to give an account of the issues of representation in public law, treated in connection with the procedural theories. The author tries to rethink, between political and legal constitutionalism, the representation, which also today shapes the de- liberativist democratism and the Rousseau’s constitutionalism. It looks at the represen- tation as a force of quality 'active' than the social pluralism, which gives form to the ideas (people, nation .. ) that did not pre-exist
La fisica come modello per il dritto?
No full textSOMMARIO: 1. L’epistemologia “fisicalista” di Bin. - 2. Sulla corrispondenza tra teoria kelseniana delle
fonti del diritto e approccio newtoniano. - 2.1 La pratica della gerarchia normativa come limite dei
giudici al potere politico. - 3. Dalla meccanica quantistica alla teoria delle stringhe. - 3.1
Dell’ontologia degli oggetti sociali. - 4. I continentali ed il postpositivismo giuridico analitico: il diritto
come modello per le scienze naturali. - 5. La teoria discorsiva dell’interpretazione giuridica,
l’uditorio ed il mondo delle probabilità.The article aims to discuss the theory presented by professor Roberto
Bin in the book “A discrezione del giudice. Ordine e disordine. Una prospettiva
quantistica” (Milano, Franco Angeli, 2013), according to which physical metaphors
and intuitions can improve our comprehension of legal issues. In his book Professor
Bin uses some paradigmatic shifts in physics (such as relativity theory and quantum
physics) to illustrate the need of a revised constitutional theory. He argues, as Professor
Lawrence Tribe firstly did in a famous essay of 1989, that scholars and lawyers
can learn form modern physics, and, in particular, from quantum physics, to
undermine the confidence of scientists in their ability to observe a phenomenon without
altering it.
Although agreeing with the heuristic ramification of the philosophy of science for
legal studies and considering these metaphors as stimulating new studies, the Author
argues that it is not correct to refer to natural sciences, such as physics, to leave the
objective image of legal universe and particularly of constitutional issues. This is
true, mainly because there is not an epistemological hierarchy between natural and
social sciences. Even the scientific decisions borrow methodological options from
the post-positivism science law – especially from the discursive theory of legal justification.
In this perspective, at the opposite, natural sciences have to refer to legal
doctrine
La filosofia della scienza e lo studio delle fonti del diritto: appunti per una critica del “fisicalismo” giuridico
No full textIn questo saggio viene discussa la proposta teorica formulata da Roberto Bin
nel libro, A discrezione del giudice. Ordine e disordine: una prospettiva
quantistica, secondo cui la fisica ed i suoi presupposti epistemologici possono
aiutare, secondo una intuizione di L. Tribe del 1989, a fondare, su nuove basi,
la teoria delle fonti del diritto e dell’interpretazione giuridica. In particolare,
l’applicazione delle premesse epistemologiche della fisica quantistica alla
teoria del diritto svelerebbe il determinismo newtoniano della teoria kelseniana
delle fonti (e dell’interpretazione) del diritto e la sovrapposizione tra il soggetto
che interpreta e l’oggetto interpretato. L’Autore di questo lavoro, benché ritenga stimolante la metafora “fisicalista”, sostiene che non è necessario
postulare premesse fisiche per spiegare il fenomeno giuridico. E questo perché
non vi è alcuna gerarchia epistemologica tra le scienze naturali e le scienze
sociali che prescriva di mutuare il metodo interpretativo dalla fisica. Al
contrario, gli stessi fatti possono essere già spiegati con il discorso interno al
diritto, quello proprio della teoria discorsiva dell’interpretazione giuridica e,
soprattutto, gli stessi fisici costruiscono discorsivamente le proprie teorie,
secondo l’opzione teorica propugnata dal post-positivismo giuridico analitico.The article aims to discuss the theory presented by Roberto Bin in his book A
discrezione del giudice. Ordine e disordine: una prospettiva quantistica,
according to which physical metaphors and intuitions can improve our
comprehension of legal issues. In his book, Professor Bin uses some
paradigmatic shifts in physics (such as relativity theory and quantum physics)
to illustrate the need of a revised constitutional theory. He argues, as Professor
Lawrence Tribe firstly did in a famous 1989 essay, that scholars and lawyers
can learn form modern physics, and, in particular, from quantum physics, to
undermine the confidence of scientists in their ability to observe a phenomenon
without altering it. Although agreeing with the heuristic ramification of the
philosophy of science for legal studies and considering these metaphors as
stimulating new studies, the author argues that it is not necessary to refer to
natural sciences, such as physics, to leave aside the objective image of legal
universe and particularly of constitutional issues. This is true, mainly because
there is not an epistemological hierarchy between natural and social sciences.
Even the scientific decisions borrow methodological options from the postpositivism
science of law – especially from the discursive theory of legal
justification. In this perspective, on the opposite, natural sciences have to refer
to legal doctrine
Appunti per una semantica della rappresentanza politica: note ‘libere’ dall’incontro sassarese su “La rappresentanza nel diritto pubblico”
No full textIl lavoro si propone di dar conto delle questioni su “La rappresentanza nel diritto pubblico” messe in gioco nell’incontro sassarese del 6 novembre 2014, immaginando di proseguire il dialogo con i relatori. Alle riflessioni del costituzionalista Caretti, che ha esperito il tentativo di delineare l’evoluzione (che si è rivelata involuzione) del concetto di rappresentanza politica dalle soglie della modernità sino allo Stato costituzionale contemporaneo, segue la critica radicale della logica della rappresentanza del romanista Lobrano, che oppone al modello del costituzionalismo medievale-inglese o parlamentare-rappresentativo il modello romano-repubblicano-municipale, del quale propone il recupero del contratto di societas contro l’inganno della persona ficta vel repraesentata. Il filosofo politico Mura, infine, ha guardato alla rappresentanza politica come forma moderna di legittimazione politica dell’autorità ed ha isolato due concezioni della rappresentanza nella storia del pensiero politico occidentale: la sostituzione di persone vs la sostituzione di volontà.
L’autrice prova a ripensare la rappresentanza, della quale neppure il democraticismo deliberativista o il costituzionalismo rousseauviano paiono sino in fondo liberarsi, come una forza di qualità ‘attiva’ rispetto al pluralismo sociale, che mette in forma le idee (popolo, nazione..) che non le preesistono.The paper aims to give an account of the issues of "representation in public law" treated in the Sassari’s meeting of 6 November 2014, imagining to continue the dialogue with the speakers. First, the constitutionalist Caretti has performed an attempt to outline the evolution (which proved involution) of the concept of political representation from the threshold of modernity up to the State Constitutional contemporary. Second, the Romanist Lobrano had a radical criticism of the logic of representation, that opposed the model of constitutionalism-medieval English or parliamentary-representative to the Roman-republican model, which proposes the recovery of the contract societas against the deception of the person ficta vel repraesentata. Finally, the political philosopher Mura looked to political representation as a modern form of political legitimacy of the authority and underlined the existence two conceptions of representation in the history of Western political thought: the replacement of people against the replacement of will.
The author tries to rethink the representation, which also today shapes the deliberativist democratism and the Rousseau’s constitutionalism, as a force of quality 'active' than the social pluralism, which gives form to the ideas (people, nation .. ) that did not pre-exist
ll cercatore di funghi: per un'ecologia della traduzione poetica
No full textThe essay explores the ecological dimension of translation. Following an introduction to recent theoretical discussions on the translation of poetic texts, the author examines exemplary translations of Shakespeare by two central figures of 20th-century Italian literature, Montale and Ungaretti. The analysis highlights how and to what extent one translation can be considered more sustainable and ecological than another
Conditional energetic stability of gravity solitary waves in the presence of weak surface tension
No full textFor a sequence of values of the total
horizontal impulse that converges to , there are solitary
waves that minimise the energy in a given neighbourhood
of the origin in .
The problem arises in the framework
of the classical Euler equation when a two-dimensional
layer of water
above an infinite horizontal bottom is considered, at the surface of which
solitary waves propagate under the action of gravity and {\it weak}
surface tension.
The adjective ``weak'' refers to the Bond number, which is
assumed to be sub-critical ().
This extends previous results on the conditional energetic
stability of solitary waves
in the super-critical case, namely those by A. Mielke
([ On the energetic stability of solitary water waves , Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc.
London Ser. A 360 (2002), 2337–2358]) and
by the author ([ Existence and conditional energetic stability of capillary-gravity
solitary water waves by minimisation , Arch. Rational Mech. Anal.]).
Like in the latter, the method is based
on direct minimisation and concentrated compactness, but without
relying on "strict sub-additivity", which is still unsettled
in the present case. Instead, a complete and careful
analysis of minimising sequences
is performed that allows us to reach a conclusion, based only on the
non-existence of "vanishing" minimising sequences.
However, in contrast with [ Existence and conditional energetic stability of capillary-gravity
solitary water waves by minimisation , Arch. Rational Mech. Anal.],
we are unable to prove the existence
of minimisers for all small values of the total horizontal impulse.
In fact more is needed to get stability, namely that every minimising
sequence has a subsequence that converges to a global minimiser, after
possible shifts in the horizontal direction. This will be obtained
as a consequence of the analysis of minimising sequences.
Then exactly the same argument as in [ Existence and conditional energetic stability of capillary-gravity
solitary water waves by minimisation , Arch. Rational Mech. Anal.] gives conditional energetic
stability and is therefore
not repeated
Appunti per una semantica della rappresentanza politica: note ‘libere’ dall’incontro sassarese su “La rappresentanza nel diritto pubblico”
No full textThe paper aims to give an account of the issues of "representation in public law" treated in the Sassari’s meeting of 6 November 2014, imagining to continue the dialogue with the speakers. First, the constitutionalist Caretti has performed an attempt to outline the evolution (which proved involution) of the concept of political representation from the threshold of modernity up to the State Constitutional contemporary. Second, the Romanist Lobrano had a radical criticism of the logic of representation, that opposed the model of constitutionalism-medieval English or parliamentary-representative to the Roman-republican model, which proposes the recovery of the contract societas against the deception of the person ficta vel repraesentata. Finally, the political philosopher Mura looked to political representation as a modern form of political legitimacy of the authority and underlined the existence two conceptions of representation in the history of Western political thought: the replacement of people against the replacement of will.
The author tries to rethink the representation, which also today shapes the deliberativist democratism and the Rousseau’s constitutionalism, as a force of quality 'active' than the social pluralism, which gives form to the ideas (people, nation .. ) that did not pre-exist.
Il lavoro si propone di dar conto delle questioni su “La rappresentanza nel diritto pubblico” messe in gioco nell’incontro sassarese del 6 novembre 2014, immaginando di proseguire il dialogo con i relatori. Alle riflessioni del costituzionalista Caretti, che ha esperito il tentativo di delineare l’evoluzione (che si è rivelata involuzione) del concetto di rappresentanza politica dalle soglie della modernità sino allo Stato costituzionale contemporaneo, segue la critica radicale della logica della rappresentanza del romanista Lobrano, che oppone al modello del costituzionalismo medievale-inglese o parlamentare-rappresentativo il modello romano-repubblicano-municipale, del quale propone il recupero del contratto di societas contro l’inganno della persona ficta vel repraesentata. Il filosofo politico Mura, infine, ha guardato alla rappresentanza politica come forma moderna di legittimazione politica dell’autorità ed ha isolato due concezioni della rappresentanza nella storia del pensiero politico occidentale: la sostituzione di persone vs la sostituzione di volontà.
L’autrice prova a ripensare la rappresentanza, della quale neppure il democraticismo deliberativista o il costituzionalismo rousseauviano paiono sino in fondo liberarsi, come una forza di qualità ‘attiva’ rispetto al pluralismo sociale, che mette in forma le idee (popolo, nazione..) che non le preesistono
Resection of primary tumor in stage 4S neuroblastoma: a second study by the Italian Neuroblastoma Group
No full textAbstract Purpose To clarify the role of primary tumor resection in stage 4S neuroblastoma. Methods We investigated a cohort of 172 infants diagnosed with stage 4S neuroblastoma between 1994 and 2013. Of 160 evaluable patients, 62 underwent upfront resection of the primary tumor and 98 did not. Results Five-year progression-free and overall survival were significantly better in those who had undergone upfront surgery (83.6% vs 64.2% and 96.8% vs 85.7%, respectively). One post-operative death and four non-fatal complications occurred in the resection group. Three patients who had not undergone resection died of chemotherapy-related toxicity. Thirteen patients underwent late surgery to remove a residual tumor, without complications: all but one alive. Outcomes were better in patients diagnosed from 2000 onwards. Conclusion Infants diagnosed with stage 4S neuroblastoma who underwent upfront tumor resection had a better outcome. However, this result cannot be definitely attributed to surgery, since these patients were selected on the basis of their favorable presenting features. Although the question of whether to operate or not at disease onset is still unsolved, this study confirms the importance of obtaining enough adequate tumor tissue to enable histological and biological studies to properly address treatment, to achieve the best possible outcome
Major Languages, Minor Literatures, Multiple Legacies
No full textSince the rise of the vernacular literatures in Europe there has been a deep divide between writers working in major languages and literatures and their counterparts using so-called minor languages for minor literatures. The former could automatically assume that when they wrote for their home public they would also reach a wider “world” public. They were writing for the world when writing about home, without having to do anything extra. The latter would almost equally automatically resign themselves to writing about home, for an exclusive home public, without hopes of reaching beyond, except in those rare cases when through translation, often through the intervention and mediation of an already famous writer in a major language, they would gain a “world” audience. Ironically, the latter sometimes happened more easily the more exclusively they concentrated on “home” topics, milieus, etc.; usually, though, it did not happen at all. Historically speaking, the relationship between languages/literatures of major/minor dissemination has shifted considerably, but probably most observers would agree that at least as of the era of Romanticism French, German and English have played major roles, with English decisively taking the lead after WWII. To be a “world author,” then, these days requires being published in English, even if only after earlier translations in other languages such as French or German have intervened as intermediate steps. At the same time, because of world-wide gains in literacy, and the compression of time and space under the conditions of postmodernity, the reading public for publications in English has become increasingly “globalized.” And because of developments in the publishing industry there is ever greater pressure, and need, to produce and sell ever more copies of a few very successful books around the world, even if only to be able to finance the ever expanding number of books published everywhere that do not succeed as (relative) bestsellers. In order to successfully tap this market, authors in minor languages/literatures use various strategies, that however all share that they draw on multiple legacies to reach as wide and broad, and as international as possible a public, and thus consciously invite translation into English. Ironically, this often involves positioning themselves as minority authors within both their “native” literatures and English-language literature. But even authors in the majority language English need to re-position themselves accordingly. As a consequence, no one can write any longer ONLY about “home.” Everybody “minor” in order to be “major” is the message; or, the worlding of world literature!sponsorship: IULMstatus: Publishe
