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The Recognition Principle
This book responds to the need for a clearer understanding of issues related to the theme of recognition in various disciplinary fields in which it plays an important role, such as psychology, sociology and politics. The book also considers in particular detail the usefulness of a theoretical-speculative definition of the question of recognition. It also shows that no philosophy of recognition can be solidly built, or claim epistemic strength and practical-operational forcefulness, without a certain degree of psychological and anthropological excavation, without a specific ‘discourse on man’. Through an engagement with such a discourse, this book is able to explore the concept of recognition as a general principle, namely the ‘recognition principle’.
Action, Intersubjectivity and Narrative Identity
The book reconsiders Paul Ricoeurâ (TM)s speculative research from the perspective of a critical hermeneutics understood as a general methodology which is able to work at an interdisciplinary level. The specialisation of sciences results in a differentiation of knowledge that determines advancement, while also provoking a great increase of complexity and fragmentation. As such, among the human sciences, some problematic disciplines, like psychoanalysis, sociology and history, have not yet found a unified methodological and epistemological structure. This book argues that critical hermeneutics may work as a mediatory inter-discipline in this regard.
Multiple Systems
This book presents the proceedings of the Eighth National Conference of the Italian Systems Society. The contributions underline the need for Systemics and Systems Science in order to address multiple, changing systems involving several coherent versions. The conference focused on identifying, discussing, and understanding possible interrelationships between fundamental theoretical advances in different disciplines. Given their scope, these proceedings represent a valuable asset for all researchers whose work involves multiple systems.
Somatic Desire
The essays in this volume all ask what it means for human beings to be embodied as desiring creatures—and perhaps still more piercingly, what it means for a philosopher to be embodied. In taking up this challenge via phenomenology, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of literature, the volume questions the orthodoxies not only of Western metaphysics but even of the phenomenological tradition itself. We miss much that has philosophical import when we exclude the somatic aspects of human life, and it is therefore the philosopher’s duty now to rediscover the meaning inherent in desire, emotion, and passion—without letting the biases of any tradition determine in advance the m...
Epistemology of Ordinary Knowledge
Many philosophers reduce ordinary knowledge to sensory or, more generally, to perceptual knowledge, which refers to entities belonging to the phenomenic world. However, ordinary knowledge is not only the result of sensory-perceptual processes, but also of non-perceptual (noetic) contents that are present in any mind. From an epistemological point of view, ordinary knowledge is a form of knowledge that not only allows epistemic access to the world, but also enables the formulation of models of it with different degrees of reliability. Usually epistemologists focus their attention on scientific knowledge, believing that ordinary knowledge does not, or cannot, have an epistemology for it is not in any way rigorous. The papers collected in this volume analyse different aspects of ordinary knowledge and of its epistemology.
Pedagogia dell’identità: l’enigma dell’essere
Osservare, senza la necessità di dover comprendere, lo sviluppo naturale della propria identità in divenire, lasciarsi vivere in una continua ridefinizione di sé in cui poter dire “sono e non sono, ero e non sono più”, lasciarsi sconquassare dal vento forte, dalla luce del sole o dalla delicata e tenue luce lunare, farsi acqua e terra, aria e fuoco, oscillare fra gli opposti, essere tutto e niente, provare la vertigine dell’assenza di contorni e rimirare il bello e lo straordinario che ne deriva. Lasciare che il vento scombini l’ordine nei nostri monasteri interiori, che faccia cadere le nostre sedie ordinate e traballare le nostre fatue certezze, entrare nel forno alchemico che tutto trasforma, mettere insieme il bianco e il nero, la luce e le tenebre, l’illimitato e il fi nito, l’illuminato e il posto in ombra e concepire l’inganno che si cela dietro ogni defi nizione. Questa è l’identità sublime.
Dialogo con l'amore
Questo maestro è chiamato a parlare di sé, a dar conto del proprio itinerario, a descriverne i passaggi, a spiegare le variazioni che sono intervenute. Parlando di sé, egli diventa maestro a doppio titolo. Per quello che ha detto, anzitutto, e di cui ora dà conto al modo in cui si esporrebbe di fronte a un classico. Ma anche per il fatto di mostrare, come fa un maestro, il pensiero non solo nei suoi risultati, ma nel suo modo di svolgersi. Egli non mette solo in scena il pensato, ma mostra come la stessa formulazione del pensiero abbia avuto luogo, perché sia apparsa necessaria in quel modo, perché egli abbia dovuto affidarsi a quel giro di argomenti. Quel maestro, che egli è, viene accompagnato dal maestro che, in certo modo, ne manifesta il segreto.
La forma dell'immagine
"Un mondo di immagini": un'espressione che è oggi tanto famigliare quanto ingannevole. Ci fa pensare alle immagini come apparenze che ci circondano e ci dominano. Ma, come mostrano i linguaggi artistici, è ben più interessante considerare le immagini non come apparenze, ma come apparizioni che generano mondi sensati e insensati, in una dinamica chiasmatica tra l'inaggirabile vita estetica della forma, che si realizza in un insieme significante o in un'opera, e le corrispondenze immateriali che animano la materia. Per questo, per il loro potere generativo, il lavoro delle immagini ci turba e ci interroga. Interroga i filosofi, che vi riconoscono processi che generano forme: così per Cassirer, Wittgenstein, Benjamin. E diventa matrice di scrittura e di riscrittura di mondi: così per Nabokov, Sebald, Shakespeare, Savinio, e molti altri.
Beyond Religion and the Secular
Deploying a distinctive disaggregative approach to the study of 'religion', this volume shows that spiritual movements with extensive counterfactual beliefs have been much more creative than one might expect. Specifically, Wayne Hudson explores the creativity of six spiritual movements: the Bahá'ís, a Persian movement; Soka Gakkai, a Japanese movement; Ananda Marga and the Brahma Kumaris, two reformed Hindu movements; and two controversial American churches, The Church Universal and Triumphant and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most of these movements have counterintuitive features that have led Western scholars making Enlightenment assumptions to dismiss them as irrational and/or inconsequential. However, this book reveals that these movements have responded to modernity in ways that are creative and practical, resulting in a wide range of social, educational and cultural initiatives. Building on research surrounding the ways in which spiritual movements engage in cultural productions, this book takes the international research in a new direction by exploring the utopian intentionality such cultural productions reveal.
