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The Pertinence of Exodus: Philosophical Questions on the Contemporary Symbolism of the Biblical Story
The Exodus has a risky and combative character that links individuals to their unconscious, to the uncertainty of their reality, and to the possibility of the disturbing event of the incalculable arrival of the Other. This encounter with the unknown does not expect a messianic salvation but a human solution, which is aware that change requires the abandonment of self-referential identities. This eccentricity is more than evasive desertion or escapism, but an experiment with new modes of organizing community that grows on the responsibilities that go with it. This collected volume gathers contemporary philosophical perspectives on the Exodus, examining the story’s symbolic potentials and dynamics in the light of current social political events. The imagination of the Promised Land, the figure of the migrant, the provisional and precarious dwelling of the camp, the promise of a better future or the gradual estrangement from inherited habits are all challenges of our time that are already conceptualized in the Exodus. The authors reaffirm the pertinence of the story by addressing the fundamental link between the ancient narrative and the human condition of the 21st century.
Juridical Perspectives between Islam and the West
This comparative philosophy of law book aims at formulating a new analytical approach to the Islamic legal tradition based on ‘juridical categories’, a concept that facilitates comprehension and understanding of juridical phenomena. Building upon legal comparativism and legal pluralism, this project intends to avoid bias caused by universalizing Western categories when analyzing foreign juridical notions, which inevitably results in the miscomprehension of non-Western ideas and institutions. Unlike existing literature, this project will not focus on substantive comparisons between normative contents, but on the ‘juridical perspectives’ that helped to shape the Islamic and Western leg...
The Law and Comedy
Despite their inherent seriousness, the law and those who practice it, be it lawyers, judges, politicians, or bureaucrats, are amongst the most popular objects of comedy and humour. Sometimes even the mention of the law, or the mere use of legal vocabulary, can trigger laughter. This is deeply counterintuitive, but true across cultures and historical eras: while the law is there to prevent and remedy injustice, it often ends up becoming the butt of comedy. But laughter and comedy, too, are also infused with seriousness: as universal social phenomena, they are extremely complex objects of study. This book maps out the many intersections of the law and laughter, from classical Greece to the present day. Taking on well-known classical and modern works of literature and visual culture, from Aristophanes to Laurel and Hardy and from Nietzsche to Totò and Fernandel, laughter and comedy bring law back to the complexity of human soul and the unpredictability of life.
Orme di viandanti
Franz Kafka, Emmanuel Lévinas, Hannah Arendt, Ágnes Heller, Elie Wiesel: questi grandi autori dell’ebraismo contemporaneo si incontrano nel presente libro, dando vita a un disegno argomentativo centrato sul riconoscimento dell’incompiutezza come feconda categoria politica. Accomunati da una “radice errante”, nel tempo di crisi del logocentrismo suggeriscono, ognuno dalla propria angolatura, immagini della convivenza umana alternative a quelle fornite da una forma mentis totalizzante. Chi si fa viandante, evadendo dalla compiutezza degli ordini formali per affrontare le vie incerte del mondo, sa leggere con logiche altre gli infiniti particolari del reale non del tutto risolvibili nel razionale; sa riconoscere nella contingenza le occasioni di apertura su nuove possibilità.
