Emanuele Martinelli

Università degli Studi di Roma Tre (roberto.finelli@uniroma3.it)
Università degli Studi di Bergamo (carlo.crosato@unibg.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-0439- 3249).
Language and Intersubjectivity: From the Phenomenology of Spirit to Habermas’ Diskursethik
Abstract: In this paper I aim to trace an itinerary through Hegelian Phenomenology to Jürgen Habermas’ Diskurethik. Hegel lays the groundwork for placing relationality at the origin of self-consciousness and addresses the problem of plurality of perspectives on the world, seeking a solution in the linguistic medium. Habermas draws on Hegel’s thought, identifying a structural ethicality underlying our communication.
Keywords: Language; Intersubjectivity; Diskursethik; Hegel; Habermas. … Continua a leggere
Università degli Studi di Salerno (paolocastaldo88@gmail.com; ORCID: 0000-0003- 2442-0942).
Which Subject in Hume?
Abstract: In Hume’s scholarship the notion of “subject” lacks systematic analysis. First, because it is often confused with words such as “self ”, “soul” or “person”, which repeatedly occur in the Treatise. Another reason is that the subject is almost always reduced to the famous question of personal identity. In this paper I argue that, on the one hand, the concept of subject has to be distinguished from that of “self ” or “person”, and from the question of personal … Continua a leggere
Università di Bologna (giuliamaria.marotta@studio.unibo.it; ORCID: 0009-0006- 5356-5592).
We Have Never Been Contemporary: For a Historicization of the Intraspecific Subjectivity of the Ontological Turn
Abstract: Analysing the ontological turn’s fundamentals, this paper aims at highlighting inherent contradictions within this theoretical framework, particularly concerning the denial of coevity between an ‘us’ and a ‘them’, imposed by Viveiros de Castro. The Brazilian anthropologist advocates for a methodological revolution in ethnography, achievable through the metamorphosis across different prospectives-ontologies: only by fully embodying the Other, entering their worlds and destroying our own initial subjectivity – and thus … Continua a leggere
Università di Pisa (francesco.marchesi1@gmail.com; ORCID: 0000-0003-3847-9574).
The Use of Event: Transformation of the Idea of History in Michel Foucault (1966-1971)
Abstract: Between 1966 and 1971 Michel Foucault’s philosophy moves from the paradigm of archaeology, present in his well-known work as Les mots et les choses and L’archéologie du savoir, to that of genealogy, influenced by authors like Nietzsche and Deleuze. The problem of historical knowledge stands at the center of this transformation. This essay tries to account this shift in Foucault’s philosophy from the point of view of the event: from … Continua a leggere
Andrea Cengia – Università degli studi di Padova (andrea.cengia@unipd.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-8992-3244); Massimiliano Tomba – University of California, Santa Cruz (mtomba@ucsc.edu; ORCID: 0000-0003-4116-061x).
History, Science, and Materialism: Rethinking Franz Borkenau
Abstract: This article offers a self-reflexive exploration of materialist critique, building upon the groundwork laid by Franz Borkenau in the realms of scientific innovation, technological evolution, and the corresponding formation of worldviews. Drawing from the theoretical frameworks of Marx and Borkenau, this study examines how specific worldviews emerge through the modification of daily experiences mediated by technology. Central to this investigation … Continua a leggere
Università di Pisa (paolo.murrone@phd.unipi.it; ORCID: 0000-0001-8333-9453).
Ecology and Metabolism:The Metabolic Rift from Eco-Marxism to Marx
Abstract: In this essay, I will focus on some essential assumptions of the so-called metabolic rift theory, which sought to understand the Marxian concept of Stoffwechsel from an ecological perspective. In the first part, I will focus on the genesis of this Marxist current of ecology, dwelling in particular on the issue of Marx’s alleged productivism. Subsequently, I will shed some light on the Marxian notion of metabolism, attempting (a) to situate the concept within the … Continua a leggere
Agostino D’Amico, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro (agostino.damico@uniba. it; ORCID: 0009-0004-0864-3614); Enrico Sacco, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (enrico.sacco@unina.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-4699-7040).
The Relationship Between Non-human Nature and Capitalist Accumulation: A Critical Reflection On Nancy Fraser’s Theory
Abstract: The article problematizes some conceptual dimensions of Nancy Fraser’s critical theory. Among them, the conception of the capitalist model as an institutionalized social order, the attempt to build a theoretical framework capable of bringing to light the areas of interdependence between economic and non-economic factors, and the periodic … Continua a leggere
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Triangle/LabEx Comod (camilla.sclocco@ens-lyon.fr; ORCID: 0009-0001-0506-0921). Ringrazio Maria Luisa Righi e Giuseppe Cospito per aver letto l’ultima versione del lavoro e per i generosi consigli; i revisori anonimi della rivista per i pertinenti suggerimenti).
The Philosophical Contribution of Lenin in Gramsci’s Critique of Croce’s History of Europe
Abstract: Through the instruments of new Gramscian philology, this article reconstructs the philosophical and political relevance of the judgement of Lenin as “the greatest modern theorist of philosophy of praxis” within Gramsci’s critique of Croce’s History of Europe. To this aim, … Continua a leggere
Università degli studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” (leonardo.masone@uniba.it; ORCID: 0009- 0007-4792-1009).
Catiline Through the Eyes of Gramsci: Brief Notes On a Non-marginal Figure of the Roman Republican History
Abstract: Each page of Gramsci’s work delivers a space for reflection that is never dogmatic. Gramsci reconstructs the long process of formation of the Italian national story, advancing with a theory of the nation that presents original traits with respect to the better known 19th and early 20th century doctrinal elaborations. Theory that places its foundations in ancient history. In the following pages, we … Continua a leggere
Paolo Desogus: Sorbonne Université (paolo.desogus@sorbonne-universite.fr; Orcid: 0009-0006-1803-4040);
Marco Gatto: Università della Calabria (marco.gatto@ unical.it; orcid: 0000-0002-5223-471X).
All’interno degli studi gramsciani e in particolare nelle più recenti ricerche si possono riconoscere due tendenze: la prima, riconducibile soprattutto all’ambito di ricerca italiano, si è proposta di storicizzare la riflessione meridionalistica di Gramsci e di ridefinirla nel contesto della prima metà del Novecento attraverso lo studio delle fonti, dei confronti intellettuali, della direzione politica del Pcd’I e degli stretti legami con gli esiti più avanzati della produzione carceraria; la seconda, facente capo al … Continua a leggere
Università degli Studi di Pavia (giuseppe.cospito@unipv.it; ORCID: 0000-0002-0978- 0467).
The Southern Question in Gramsci’s writings from the Turin and ordinovist periods
Abstract: This essay aims to demonstrate the relevance of the “Southern Question” from Gramsci’s early theory and politics onwards. Since his high school education in Sardinia, Gramsci was faced with the underdevelopment of his native region, which he believed could be overcome via political independence and autonomy. Yet, he soon realized the nation-wide dimension of this issue, rooted in the thousand-year old political division of the country, and in … Continua a leggere
Sorbonne Université (paolo.desogus@sorbonne-universite.fr; Orcid: 0009-0006-1803- 4040).
Gramsci’s Southern Question from the economic-corporative to the ethical-politic
Abstract: This essay analyzes Antonio Gramsci’s evolving perspective on the Southern Question from 1911 to 1926, the period of his arrest. It specifically scrutinizes both his writings and the various political developments that transformed Gramsci from a socialist activist into the foremost political leader of the Communist Party of Italy and a prominent figure within the Communist International. The main objective of this study is to shed light on a philosophical and political journey marked by theoretical … Continua a leggere
Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (roberto.evangelista@ispf.cnr.it; ORCID: 0000-0003-0334-9462).
Fata morgana in the suburbans neighboroughs Coree. The Southern question between mirage and miracle.
Abstract: The essay aims to consider some aspects of the Southern question, starting from the situation of emigrants in Northern Italy in the 1950s. This work considers two very important texts (Milano, Corea. Inchiesta sugli immigrati, and Stato e sottosviluppo), which allow us to consider the economic aspects and political choices that determined the phenomenon of internal Italian … Continua a leggere
Università della Calabria (marco.gatto@unical.it; orcid: 0000-0002-5223-471X).
An unrestricted universalism. Southern question and class struggle in Edward W. Said and Ernesto de Martino
Abstract: The article aims to set up a path of reflection capable of dialectically tightening the concepts of universalism, Orientalism, the Southern question and class conflict, considering the fundamental contribution of Edward W. Said and Ernesto de Martino, two authors who have so far, unjustly, not been juxtaposed.
Keywords: Universalism; Southern Question; Orientalism; Nation; Identity. … Continua a leggere
Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo” (giacomo.tarascio@uniurb.it; ORCID: 0009-0004-2898-7801).
Trough Margins and Subalternity. A Gramscian Political Key to Think about the South of Italy
Abstract: The idea of subaltern groups is one of the most notable Gramscian concepts that has become part of the global historical-political lexicon, and not only that: the work on the Southern Question has been integrated into the broader discourse of the Global South. If these new views, on the one hand, had the merit of spreading some of the key terms from Quaderni del carcere beyond … Continua a leggere
Università degli Studi di Camerino (francescomaria.tedesco@unicam.it; ORCID: 0000- 0001-9577-8250).
The Meridian thought as anti-popular Mediterraneism
Abstract: About five years after the publication of my book Mediterraneismo. Il pensiero antimeridiano (Meltemi 2017), I still wonder whether it was necessary to publish such a text. This contribution is an attempt to formulate an answer to that question. An answer that, in my opinion, is affirmative. And it is so because not only are the traces of what I had defined in the book as Mediterraneanism of the first kind (of backwardness) still widespread; but … Continua a leggere
Università degli Studi di Roma Tre (roberto.finelli@uniroma3.it; Orcid: 0000-0003-1444-4756)
Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to critique the traditional interpretation of Ludwig Feuerbach’s philosophy as belonging to the materialist and anti-idealist tradition. Instead, the author argues that underlying Feuerbach’s anthropology is a metaphysics of ‘Genus’ (Gattung in German) conceived as an organic and communitarian universality. Behind Feuerbach’s apparent materialism and sensualism lies a spiritualist doctrine of essence, according to which human beings participate in principle in a common life in which individuals integrate and add up their differences without conflict and opposition. … Continua a leggere
Portland State University (bbg2@pdx.edu; Orcid: 0000-0001-8295-3216).
Abstract: Our cultural situation is to seek a moral form of self-constitution, rather than an ontological or epistemological foundation. Such a moral ground lies in the paradox of willing surrender of the will to do wrong or dysfunctional acts in order to enter temporally-extended processes of moral change. But the paradox of willing surrender of the will requires analysis. The propositional form of it cannot be sustained and must instead give way to willingness as an ongoing choice. The self-reflexivity of the will with which we accomplish … Continua a leggere
Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi” (maurizio.maione63@gmail.com; ORCID: 0009-0000-3337-7881).
The Linguistic-Cognitive Dimension in Wilhelm Wundt’s Psychology
Abstract: This essay is aimed at examining Wilhelm Wundt’s theoretical interest in the genesis and nature of human language according to the methodology of experimental psychology whose theoretical tools also are decisive for the understanding of some linguistic writings published since 1900. There are three points which I will focus on: 1) the procedural-relational nature of mental events; 2) the examination of the processes of volition (Entscheidung and Entschließung) and apperception and, finally, 3) the … Continua a leggere