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Past (Im)Perfect Continuous
Past (Im)perfect Continuous. Trans-Cultural Articulations of the Postmemory of WWII presents an international and interdisciplinary approach to the comprehension of the postmemory of WWII, accounting for a number of different intellectual trajectories that investigate WWII and the Holocaust as paradigms for other traumas within a global and multidirectional context. Indeed, by exceeding the geographical boundaries of nations and states and overcoming contextual specificities, postmemory foregrounds continuous, active, connective, transcultural, and always imperfect representations of violence that engage with the alterity of other histories and other subjects. 75 years after the end of WWII, this volume is primarily concerned with the convergence between postmemory and underexamined aspects of the history and aftermath of WWII, as well as with several sociopolitical anxieties and representational preoccupations. Drawing from different disciplines, the critical and visual works gathered in this volume interrogate the referential power of postmemory, considering its transcultural interplay with various forms, media, frames of reference, conceptual registers, and narrative structures.
Ritratto su macchina da scrivere
Del percorso intellettuale di Hannah Arendt, con tutta la sua complessità e i suoi contrasti è stato identificato un testimone silenzioso: la sua macchina da scrivere, strumento centrale per ogni sua riflessione, lettera, articolo di giornale. La storia qui narrata segue il percorso intellettuale di Arendt attraverso questa particolare prospettiva. Punto di partenza è il suo arrivo a New York nel 1941, come apolide in fuga dal nazismo. Punto di arrivo una sera del 1975, quando Hannah Arendt fu ritrovata senza vita vicino alla sua macchina da scrivere, impegnata a scrivere la terza parte de La Vita della mente. Nel mezzo la storia di una vita, che la vedrà impegnata anche come reporter del “New Yorker” al processo Eichmann a Gerusalemme, su cui scrisse della pagine di cui ancora oggi sentiamo forte l’eco.
Mitleid und Mitgefühl bei Hannah Arendt und Martha Nussbaum
During the COVID-19 pandemic and amid recent debates surrounding migration – or simply as part of election campaigns – pity and compassion have increasingly been permeating the political discourse. Does this trend lead to more humanity, or do the emotions of pity and compassion threaten our democracies? Political scientist Anne-Kathrin Weber suggests that polarising answers can be found in the political theories of two extraordinary thinkers: Hannah Arendt and Martha Nussbaum.
L’alchimia del potere
Il libro tiene conto di come il pensiero di Hannah Arendt si inserisca a pieno titolo nell’attuale dibattito sull’idea di democrazia e sulle sue derive totalitarie. Gli autori hanno affrontato alcuni temi cruciali del pensiero arendtiano, come la sua visione della storia, intesa come evento, contingenza e imprevedibilità, e la sua concezione della politica, con la quale Arendt segnala il rischio di una riduzione del politico all’economico. Da questo punto di vista è stato necessario ricostruire i suoi rapporti con il pensiero di Karl Marx, riferimento imprescindibile sempre presente nelle tesi arendtiane, benché critiche e con il tema centrale del lavoro. Il percorso analitico prosegue nel confronto con alcune autrici come Cavarero e Butler, che permettono di approfondire alcuni argomenti quali la democrazia, la corporeità, la soggettività. Infine, il confronto costante con il pensiero di Michel Foucault per mettere in luce gli aspetti più spinosi che oggi riguardano l’idea stessa di potere e politica.
Infiniti volti
Il racconto vivido, insieme storico e teorico, di un’esistenza filosofica forgiata dalla guerra, dalla prigionia, dalla distruzione dell’uomo per mano dell’uomo. Eppure, a un senso elevato ed esigente dell’umano è proteso l’inquieto vivere di Emmanuel Levinas, a dispetto delle tragedie che la storia reitera. Vertigine traumatica per un’alterità etica incontenibile, che mi risveglia da incantamenti, narcisismi, ideologie. Da un passato irrecuperabile verso un futuro inaudito, il sentiero si snoda tra la conoscenza e il linguaggio, l’arte e l’enigma, la morte e la trascendenza, il volto e l’infinito.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities
Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities is a pioneer attempt to introduce a wide range of disciplines in the emerging field of techno-humanities to the English-reading world. This book covers topics such as archaeology, cultural heritage, design, fashion, linguistics, music, philosophy, and translation. It has 20 chapters, contributed by 26 local and international scholars. Each chapter has its own theme and addresses issues of significant interest in the respective disciplines. References are provided at the end of each chapter for further exploration into the literature of the relevant areas. To facilitate an easy reading of the information presented in this volume, chapters have been arranged according to the alphabetical order of the topics covered. This Encyclopedia will appeal to researchers and professionals in the field of technology and the humanities, and can be used by undergraduate and graduate students studying the humanities.
Non-Violence
We know of the blood and tears provoked by the projects of transformation of the world through war or revolution. Starting from the essay published in 1921 by Walter Benjamin, twentieth century philosophy has been committed to the criticism of violence, even when it has claimed to follow noble ends. But what do we know of the dilemmas, of the “betrayals,” of the disappointments and tragedies which the movement of non-violence has suffered? This book tells a fascinating history: from the American Christian organizations in the first decades of the nineteenth century who wanted to eliminate slavery and war in a non-violent way, to the protagonists of movements—Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Capitini, M. L. King, the Dalai Lama—who either for idealism or for political calculation flew the flag of non-violence, up to the leaders of today’s “color revolutions.”
Postphenomenology and Technoscience
Maps the future of phenomenological thought, accounting for how technology expands our means of experiencing the world.
We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy
We are all in the dumps For diamonds are thumps The kittens are gone to St. Paul's! The baby is bit The moon's in a fit And the houses are built Without walls Jack and Guy Went out in the Rye And they found a little boy With one black eye Come says Jack let's knock Him on the head No says Guy Let's buy him some bread You buy one loaf And I'll buy two And we'll bring him up As other folk do Two traditional rhymes from Mother Goose, ingeniously joined and interpreted by Maurice Sendak.
Digital Media
Digital Media: Human-Technology Connection examines what it is like to be alive in today’s technologically textured world and showcases specific digital media technologies that makes this kind of world possible. So much of human experience occurs through digital media that it is time to pause and consider the process and proliferation of digital consumption and humanity’s role in it through an interdisciplinary array of sources from philosophy, media studies, film studies, media ecology and philosophy of technology. When placed in the interpretive lens of artifact, instrument, and tool, digital media can be studied in a uniquely different way, as a kind of technology that pushes the boun...
