Archivi categoria: Varia

DOI:10.5281/zenodo.14639237

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Filippo Del Lucchese

Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna (filippo.dellucchse@unibo.it; orcid. org/0000-0003-1980-1521)

Constituent Power and Fighting Sckepticism in Etienne de la Boétie

Abstract: The article examines the thought of Etienne de La Boétie through five main aspects, highlighting the revolutionary and polemical nature of his conception of ‘voluntary servitude’. In the first paragraph, I introduce voluntary servitude as a foundational issue in modern political theory, linking it to the question of power legitimacy. The second paragraph analyzes the role of the subordinates’ will in maintaining power, where La Boétie sees a form of passive consent that grants stability … Continua a leggere

DOI:10.5281/zenodo.14639203

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Sebastiano Taccola

Oxygen and surplus-value, cell and commodity. The logic of discovery in the critique of political economy

Abstract: This paper aims to investigate the influence of the natural sciences on the logic of discovery that characterizes Marx’s critique of political economy. In the first part, the paper makes specific references to the works of Thomas Kuhn and Louis Althusser to take seriously the parallelism between Lavoisier and Marx suggested by Engels, and examines its possible epistemological implications. Following this thread, it is possible to shed a light on Marx’s interest in 19th century sciences, focusing in particular … Continua a leggere