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Faith in Democracy
"Populist - mediatic - democracy is...totalitarianism compatible with democracy...The irreducibility of intellectuals to masses is the disjunctive element or function of the totalitarian mental field." This is, in brief, the path that awaits the reader: an instructive - at times even painful - "journey" through our cultural koine, which gradually proves to be an economic koine, monopolized and debased by publicity and consensus logic. The form of democracy that we are experiencing today is mediatic, a form unknown in the past but now in need of fresh criticism and, as a result, foreign to theoretical developments of former centuries. The Greek etymon "power of the people" has no longer value...
In Sensible Judgement
Taking its bearings from classic texts including Plato, Kant, Hegel and Arendt this thoughtful and intriguing book provides philosophical reflection on what it is to judge and what judgement achieves alongside, and sometimes in competition with, thinking and willing. Opening with the landmark Mabo High Court case in Australia and with detailed reference to other significant debates of judgement of the twentieth century Max Deutscher seeks to explore and explain approaches to the concepts of what is good, right and legal. Describing a connection between reason and grounds intrinsic to judgement he analyses and explores the tendency towards absolutism that displaces proper judgement. By weaving concrete instances of judgement with philosophical thought Deutscher provides a fascinating phenomenology of practices of judgement that should appeal to all readers with an interest in legal, philosophical and political thought.
Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself
This volume collects a number of important and revealing interviews with Richard Rorty, spanning more than two decades of his public intellectual commentary, engagement, and criticism. In colloquial language, Rorty discusses the relevance and nonrelevance of philosophy to American political and public life. The collection also provides a candid set of insights into Rorty's political beliefs and his commitment to the labor and union traditions in this country. Finally, the interviews reveal Rorty to be a deeply engaged social thinker and observer.
Terms of the Political:Community, Immunity, Biopolitics
This title calls for the opening of political thought toward a re-signification of terms - such as 'community, ' 'immunity, ' 'biopolitics, ' and 'the impersonal' - in ways that affirm rather than negate life.
House of the Angels
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La fiducia nella democrazia
-La democrazia populista - mediatica - e. il totalitarismo compatibile con la democrazia. L'irriducibilita degli intellettuali alle masse e l'elemento, la funzione di non sutura del campo mentale totalitario-. Questo, in estrema sin-tesi, il percorso che attende il lettore: un "viaggio" chiarificatore, a volte persi-no doloroso, attraverso la nostra koine culturale, che si scopre via via essere koine economica, monopolizzata e avvilita dalla pubblicita e dalla logica del consenso. La forma di democrazia che viviamo oggi e quella mediatica, una forma mai esistita prima, e alla quale occorre applicare una critica inedita, quindi lontana dagli sviluppi teorici dei secoli passati; non ha piu val...
Per Barletta
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L'immaginazione simbolica
Questo densissimo testo ha il grande merito di spiegare non solo cos'e il simbolo e l'immaginazione simbolica, ma di reclamarne la centralita per tutte le forme della creazione psichica. Occorre decostruire l'unilaterialita sia delle retoriche positive che delle ermeneutiche riduttive, chiedersi come la cognizione cartesiana ed empirista, la semiologia e l'involuzione dogmatica della religione abbiano operato un vero "iconoclasma" da parte dell'Occidente, facendoci smarrire l'orientamento simbolico. Una civilta siffatta ci ha portati a perdere quella sensibilita in grado di farci sperimentare l'interiorita del mondo, coglierne la risonanza molteplice di un organismo molteplice e animato, facendoci ripiegare su noi stessi, esiliati e autocentrati, convinti di poter disporre a nostro piacimento di qualsiasi manifestazione del reale: perdere il contatto con il mondo significa per l'uomo non rendersi conto di appartenere a questo stesso ambiente, in un movimento autodistruttivo. L'arte e la religione, cosi importanti per le nostre vite, possono condurci a riscoprire il valore salvifico dell'immaginazione creatrice."
