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Note su «I nuovi demoni. Ripensare oggi male e potere» di Simona Forti
No full textL'articolo discute il saggio di Simona Forti intitolato "I nuovi demoni: ripensare oggi male e potere" (Milano, 2012). A partire dalla ricostruzione del problema del rapporto tra male e potere presentata dall'Autrice, l'articolo discute alcuni problemi dei dibattiti contemporanei sulla biopolitica e la soggettivita
Totalitarianism : A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy
No full textIn the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking about when we define a totalitarian political and social situation? When did we start using the word as both adjective and noun? And, what totalitarian ghosts haunt the present?
Philosopher Simona Forti seeks to answer these questions by reconstructing not only the genealogy of the concept, but also by clarifying its motives, misunderstandings, and the controversies that have animated its current resurgence. Taking into account political theories and historical discussions, Totalitarianism especially focuses on philosophical reflections, from the question of totalitarian biopolitics to the alleged totalitarian drifts of neoliberalism. The work invites the relentless formulation of a radical question about the democratic age: the possibilities it has opened up, the voids it leaves behind, the mechanisms it activates, and the "voluntary servitude" it produces. Forti argues that totalitarianism cannot be considered an external threat to democracy, but rather as one of the possible answers to those questions posed by modernity which democracies have not been able to solve. Her investigation of the uses and abuses of totalitarianism as one of the fundamental categories of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries promises to provoke much-needed discussion and debate among those in philosophy, politics, ethics, and beyond
Simona Forti
No full textModern metaphysics has ended: the death of God announced by Nietzsche and the death of Man announced by Foucault have to be mourned. But the invitation to think beyond good and evil can be answered with the stubborn relaunching of the political ethos of philosophy. This is the radical theoretical stance that makes Simona Forti’s intellectual production highly original within the Italian and international landscape
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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