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Giovedì 31 maggio: Prof. Knoll su Società, politica e superuomo in Nietzsche

26 Saturday May 2018

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Manuel Knoll, Nietzsche, politica, società, superuomo

Giovedì 31 maggio, alle ore 16.30 presso Sala 1, via dei Mille 19, I piano il Prof. Manuel KNOLL (Istanbul Şehir University) terrà una lezione dal titolo “Società, politica e superuomo in Nietzsche”.

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Volume on “The Wisdom of the Ancients” is out!

17 Monday Jul 2017

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Anna Romani, Antiquity, Aristophanes, Catherine Zuckert, David Janssens, disputa fra antichi e moderni, Eduardo Zazo Jiménez, Elad Lapidot, Fabio Fossa, Ferdinand Deanini, filosofia politica, German Philosophy, Gnosticism, hannah arendt, Hans Jonas, historicism, history of science, Iacopo Chiaravalli, Jacob Klein, Jewish Studies, Karl Löwith, Kuzari, Leo Strauss, Luca Timponelli, Marco Menon, Marco Sgarbi, Modernity, natura, nature, Nietzsche, Philipp von Wussow, Plato, Political Philosophy, Quarrel between Ancients and Moderns, Roots, Socrates, storia della scienza, storicismo

The volume “The Wisdom of the Ancients. The German-Jewish Revaluation of Ancient Philosophy”, edited by Fabio Fossa and Anna Romani, is now out!
It is readable on the website of the International Journal “Philosophical Readings” (editor in chief: Prof. M. Sgarbi) on the following link: https://zenodo.org/record/826367#.WWyc5f_ygza

Here the Table of Contents:

Platos’ Republic: The Limits of Politics

Catherine H. Zuckert …………………………………………………………………………1

A Lesson in Politics: Some Remarks on Leo Strauss’ Socrates and Aristophanes

Marco Menon …………………………………………………………………………6

Plato, Arendt and the Conditions of Politics

Luca Timponelli……………………………………………………………….12

Leo Strauss on Returning: Some Methodological Aspects

Philipp von Wussow…………………………………………………………………..18

Back to the Roots. The Correspondence Between Leo Strauss and Jacob Klein

David Janssens…………………………………………………………………25

Repetition of Antiquity at the Peak of Modernity as Phenomenological Problem

Iacopo Chiaravalli………………………………………………………………31

Progress as a Problem:

Strauss and Löwith in Dialogue between Antiquity and Modernity

Anna Romani ………………………………………………………………………..37

Naturalness and Historicity:

Strauss and Klein on the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns

Danilo Manca…………………………………………………………………..44

Löwith’s Nietzschean Return to the Ancient Conception of Nature

Eduardo Zazo Jiménez ………………………………………………………………………..50

Ancient Wisdom and the Modern Temper. On the Role of Greek Philosophy and the

Jewish Tradition in Hans Jonas’s Philosophical Anthropology

Fabio Fossa …………………………………………………………………..55

Hans Jonas’ Work on Gnosticism as Counterhistory

Elad Lapidot………………………………………………………………….61

The Law and the Philosopher. On Leo Strauss’ “The Law of Reason in the Kuzari”

Ferdinand Deanini …………………………………………………………………69

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NEW ODRADEK CFP: PHILOSOPHUS RIDENS

24 Saturday Jun 2017

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Bergson, comedy, commedia, Freud, Hobbes, Kant, laughing philosopher, Laughter, laughter as social phenomenon, Nietzsche, psychology of laughter, riso

CALL FOR PAPERS

Philosophus ridens

ODRADEK

Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories

 Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories is an International Journal (http://zetesis.cfs.unipi.it/Rivista/index.php/odradek/index) founded by Zetesis (www.zetesisproject.com) Research Group on the Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry. Zetesis is a Research Center related to the University of Pisa History, Philosophy, and Arts Department.

 The Journal publishes in online version powered by Open Journal System (OJS)

ISSN: 2465-1060

 Section Editor: Leonardo MASSANTINI
(University of Pisa), leonardomassantini@gmail.com

 Authors are cordially invited to submit papers for the upcoming edition of the Journal that will deal with Philosophus ridens

 Submission deadline: 2nd November 2017

Language: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese.

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Laughter is a familiar experience generally connected with joy. At the same time, it is a puzzling phenomenon with which philosophy has had an ambiguous relationship. Relatively few thinkers have tackled this subject, as many of them considered it a problem of secondary importance. Even those who have written about it, especially in the past, have often described it as a malicious manifestation, typical of the morally and socially inferior. Other philosophers, however, have devoted more attention to laughter. Most of their analysis can be grouped into three different theories: the superiority theory, the relief theory, and the incongruity theory.

H. ter Brugghen, Democritus (1628)

Thomas Hobbes—arguably the first modern philosopher to offer a deep analysis of the phenomenon—famously defended the first theory. In the Leviathan, he defined laughter as the expression of a sudden glory caused by the comparison between ourselves and those we consider inferior to us in some respect. On the other hand, according to the relief theory championed by Sigmund Freud, laughter is the release of some kind of energy that has built up pressure. In his Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten, Freud argued that laughter unleashes nervous energy that in everyday life is used to repress emotions, to think, or to feel emotions. Finally, the incongruity theory states that we laugh at things that disprove our assumptions in a particular way. In his Kritik der Urteilskraft, Immanuel Kant defended a general version of the incongruity theory, according to which laughter is an effect that arises if a tense expectation is transformed into nothing (Kant specified that it must be nothing and not the positive opposite of the expectation, thus implying that not all that is unexpected is also laughable). Two centuries later, in Le Rire, Henri Bergson presented a more specific version of the incongruity theory. He argued that we laugh when we see something mechanical in something living.

Laughter, however, is not simply one of the many objects of philosophical research. Strong bonds link philosophical research and laughter at a deeper level. Laughter is sometimes used as a defining characteristic of important philosophical figures. Most notably, in one of the letters attributed to Hippocrates, we find a melancholic Democritus who constantly laughs at his fellow citizens because he considers their endeavours completely meaningless. The philosopher laughs at the human condition.

The connection between laughter and philosophy becomes particularly complex when we highlight the similarities between the activity of the philosopher and the comedy writer: both reflect on familiar phenomena; they use critical thought; they step back emotionally from the problem they tackle; and they give us a new outlook on the world.

The goal of this volume of Odradek will be to shape a new and deeper understanding of the phenomenon of laughter, especially in its relation to philosophy; however, we welcome papers from various disciplines.

The topic of the proposals might include, but need not to be restricted to:

  • Laughter, comedy and philosophy in literature
  • Analysis of one or more of the theories of laughter
  • Psychology of laughter
  • Laughter as a social phenomenon
  • Analysis of the figure of the laughing philosopher
  • Analysis of the relationship between comedy and philosophy

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Nietzsche and the School of Husserl

09 Friday Dec 2016

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Danilo Manca, Descartes, Didier Franck, Fabrizio Arcuri, Giulio Randazzo, Husserl, Lorenzo Biagini, Lorenzo Serini, Luigi Filieri, Marta Vero, naturalism, Nietzsche, Peter Poellner, Phenomenology, scepticism, science

Nell’ambito delle attività svolte con i contributi per le attività studentesche autogestite dell’Università di Pisa (att. 1272 su “storia dell’idealismo e modelli di razionalità”) venerdì 16 dicembre presso Aula Magna di Palazzo Boileau (via S. Maria, 85), avrà luogo la giornata di studi su:

NIETZSCHE AND THE SCHOOL OF HUSSERLnietzsche_husserl
organized by ZETESIS
Supervision: Prof. Giuliano Campioni

Programme:

ore 9.00: Welcome
Marta Vero, Coordinator of Zetesis Research Group

Chair: Luigi Filieri (Università di Pisa – Zetesis)

9.15: Dr. Danilo Manca (Università di Pisa – Zetesis)
Like Spiders in their web. Nietzsche and Husserl on the naturalness of consciousness
 
10.15: Prof. Didier Franck (Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre)
Morphologie de la volonté de puissance et constitution transcendentale

11.15 Break

11.30: Giulio Randazzo (Independent Researcher)
Scepsi, apparenza e fenomeno. Tra metodo e evento in Nietzsche e Husserl

12.30: Lorenzo Serini (University of Warwick)
Nietzsche and Husserl on scepticism
 
13.30: Lunch

Chair: Dr. Danilo Manca (Università di Pisa – Zetesis)

15.00: Prof. Peter Poellner (University of Warwick)
Nietzsche between science and phenomenology
 
16.00: Fabrizio Arcuri (Università di Pisa – Zetesis)
Razionalità e soggetto. Nietzsche lettore e critico di Descartes

17.00: Lorenzo Biagini (Università di Pisa – Zetesis)
Husserl interprete di Descartes
 
18.00: Conclusion

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ODRADEK, Vol. I, no. 2: The Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy

16 Thursday Jun 2016

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aesthetics, albert camus, Alessandra Aloisi, Andrew Benjamin, Danilo Manca, David Roochnik, Edoardo Raimondi, Franco D'Intino, Grace Whistler, Leo Strauss, Leopardi, logique de la philosophie, Lorenzo Serini, Marco Menon, Marco Piazza, Nietzsche, novel, Odradek rivista online, Paolo Godani, philosophical self-criticism, Plato, Political Philosophy, quarrel poetry philosophy, reflection, rhetoric, rivista filosofia e letteratura, Walter Benjamin

È con immenso piacere che segnaliamo la pubblicazione del secondo numero della nostra rivista online Odradek sul tema

The Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy

 

Di seguito trovate l’indice degli articoli con il link diretto alla pagina della rivista.

Vol I, no 2 (2015):
The Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy,quarrel-poetry-phil-ct
edited by Alessandra Aloisi and Danilo Manca

Table of contents

Introduction
Alessandra Aloisi and Danilo Manca

 

The Quarrel between poetry and philosophy Poetry as Philosophical Self-Criticism
David Roochnik

Leopardi and Plato (Drama and Poetry vs Philosophy)
Franco D’Intino

Furor Divinus: Creatuvity in Plato’s Ion
Andrew Benjamin

From Rhetoric to Reflection: Albert Camus and the «Ancient Quarrel»
Grace Whistler

Where Philosophy Meets Poetry in Nietzsche’s Writings from 1872-1873
Lorenzo Serini

An Unpolitical Political Philosophy? Some Remarks on Leo Strauss’ «Notes on Lucretius»
Marco Menon

Poesia e Filosofia nella Logique de la Philosophie
Edoardo Raimondi

The Individual between Aesthetics and the Novel
Paolo Godani

Walter Benjamin tra redenzione e rammemorazione, via Proust
Marco Piazza

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