Marco Solinas
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, DIRPOLIS, Faculty Member
- Marco Solinas is Assistant Professor in Political philosophy at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, and Pro... moreMarco Solinas is Assistant Professor in Political philosophy at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, and Project Manager of Jean Monnet Module GOLDSTEIN: "Debunking Political Uses of Denialisms and Conspiracy Theories in EU". He's currently working on critical theory of society and populism. Solinas completed his studies and received a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Florence, studying also at University of Nottingham and at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. He carried out research at Institut für Philosophie an der Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, at the EHESS in Paris, at Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität München, and at Università Cattolica di Milano. Solinas is in the editorial board of "Genealogy", of "Consecutio Rerum" and in the scientific board of "La società degli individui" and of "Indiscipline", and he published in important international reviews including "Philosophy and Social Criticism", "Critical Horizons", "Zeitscrift für kritische Theorie", "Philosophisches Jahrbuch", "Teoria politica", "Revue Philosophique de Louvain", "Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung". Solinas is the author of "Via Platonica zum Unbewussten" (Wien-Berlin: Turia und Kant, 2012), "From Aristotle’s Teleology to Darwin’s Genealogy" (London-New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).edit
The article aims to propose a definition of political conspiracy that clarifies the conceptual outlines that differentiate conspiracy theories in a broad sense from those that have political forms and functions in a narrow sense.... more
The article aims to propose a definition of political conspiracy that clarifies the conceptual outlines that differentiate conspiracy theories in a broad sense from those that have political forms and functions in a narrow sense. Outlining the general theoretical principles of conspiracy theories, understood also as a form of magic significance, attention is focused on the correlations highlighted in the literature between populisms, understood as a thin ideology, and conspiracy theories, especially from the standpoint of demonizing elites. Having established the limits and scope of such convergences, the theory of great replacement or ethnic substitution, in its dual conspiracy and non-conspiracy versions, is discussed, reconstructing its origin and hybridization to some models of traditional conspiracism. Through the analysis of this theory, adopted by movements and leaders of traditional and populist parties, a model is outlined whereby political conspiracy, rather than being primarily configured as a social embodiment and cultural attitude of a 'paranoid style' and a certain forma mentis is presented as a political tool useful in helping to generate, exploit as well as sometimes self-produce fears and anxieties, demonizing and persecuting styles of thought and, more generally, as a narrative form that exhibits high degrees of conceptual indeterminacy particularly incisive on the level of political rhetoric. Finally, the author clarifies the difference between conspiracy theories aimed at the resignification of unforeseen and schocky events, and political conspiracism aimed at addressing habitual and long-standing historical and social processes and dynamics.
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Beginning with the current discussion on the forms of social critique, the essay aims to outline a novel, Gramscian-inspired model of organic social critique, far from any form of paternalism but capable of preserving a strong... more
Beginning with the current discussion on the forms of social critique, the essay aims to outline a novel, Gramscian-inspired model of organic social critique, far from any form of paternalism but capable of preserving a strong emancipatory charge. The model aims to overcome certain theoretical deficits found in the model of internal critique as it was thematized by Michael Walzer and later by Luc Boltanski, and by the model of immanent critique proposed within the framework of the neo-Hegelian turn in German critical theory, particularly by Axel Honneth and Rahel Jaeggi. This operation is carried out through the reinterpretation of some of the notions developed by Gramsci, beginning with those of "organic adherence" and "subaltern groups," later revived in postcolonial studies, circumscribing their validity to the figure of the social critic as it is understood in our day.
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The chapter aims firstly to show that the young Engels was actually the father, already in the early writings of 1842 and 1843, of the original theoretical framework of “Kapitalismuskritik”; that is the birth of the Hegelian version of... more
The chapter aims firstly to show that the young Engels was actually the father, already in the early writings of 1842 and 1843, of the original theoretical framework of “Kapitalismuskritik”; that is the birth of the Hegelian version of the socialist critique of political economy, developed by Marx only after Engels’s influence. A framework built by a materialistic reinterpretation of Hegelian teleology of history, in which the fundamental opposition between capital and labour should definitely lead to a polarization of society between a very large and starving proletariat and a small and a small class of capitalists, such that capitalism should certainly be revolutionised. The paper shows that these arguments were directly linked to the historical condition of England of the middle of the Nineteenth Century, especially of the 1840s; conditions that Engels and Marx “projected forward” into the future of capitalist development. Despite this misleading historical prognose and other theoretical deficits, beginning with the ‘economism’ and the reductive role ascribed to the field of politics, the paper shows that the original Hegelian framework of Kapitalismuskritik is still capable today of shedding some light on some important critical elements of the brutality of contemporary neoliberal capitalism, beginning with the opposition between capital and labour.
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The paper starts from the assumption that current discussion on the epistemological status of the model of critique from below must be developed looking at the relations between the question of the positioning of the critic in social and... more
The paper starts from the assumption that current discussion on the epistemological status of the model of critique from below must be developed looking at the relations between the question of the positioning of the critic in social and political terms, and the analysis of the criteria and standards of the critique in moral and normative terms in plural societies, both at a global level.
It means that on the methodological level I will try to overcome the political deficit that can be ascribed to the Neo-Hegelian theoretical framework of immanent critique (see Honneth and Jaeggi) looking at the question of the positioning of the critic. A question that has been developed in the framework of internal critique and connected critic, as well of pragmatic sociology of critique (see Walzer and Boltanski). Furthermore, we have to take into consideration also the consequences for these topics of subaltern and postcolonial studies (see Said and Chakrabarty).
To conceive within a unified theoretical model these three orders of questions, I will try to develop an actualization of Gramscian conception of intellectual’s “organic connection”, here referred in particularly to subaltern global groups and cultures. Briefly, the new figure of organic critic – differentiated from the concept of ‘organic intellectual’ – will be characterized by two main features:
– Firstly, the new type of organic critic must be understood as a figure that has an organic connection with subaltern groups and cultures in the sense that he adopts implicit or explicit normative criteria of this groups, and that he translates these criteria in political terms, looking at the differences, disparities, and inequalities between global north and south.
– Secondly, the organic connection of this type of critic must be understood as the basis of the critique exercised towards the different and alternative interpretations of normative criteria adopted by other groups, cultures and societies also in the sense elucidated by postcolonial studies, as in the paradigmatic cases of the relations between different cultures at global level.
It means that on the methodological level I will try to overcome the political deficit that can be ascribed to the Neo-Hegelian theoretical framework of immanent critique (see Honneth and Jaeggi) looking at the question of the positioning of the critic. A question that has been developed in the framework of internal critique and connected critic, as well of pragmatic sociology of critique (see Walzer and Boltanski). Furthermore, we have to take into consideration also the consequences for these topics of subaltern and postcolonial studies (see Said and Chakrabarty).
To conceive within a unified theoretical model these three orders of questions, I will try to develop an actualization of Gramscian conception of intellectual’s “organic connection”, here referred in particularly to subaltern global groups and cultures. Briefly, the new figure of organic critic – differentiated from the concept of ‘organic intellectual’ – will be characterized by two main features:
– Firstly, the new type of organic critic must be understood as a figure that has an organic connection with subaltern groups and cultures in the sense that he adopts implicit or explicit normative criteria of this groups, and that he translates these criteria in political terms, looking at the differences, disparities, and inequalities between global north and south.
– Secondly, the organic connection of this type of critic must be understood as the basis of the critique exercised towards the different and alternative interpretations of normative criteria adopted by other groups, cultures and societies also in the sense elucidated by postcolonial studies, as in the paradigmatic cases of the relations between different cultures at global level.
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The paper aims to give an account of the actuality of Neumann's conception of the forms of psychological and political regression in relation to the thematization of populism. In particular, the paper aims to develop a conception of... more
The paper aims to give an account of the actuality of Neumann's conception of the forms of psychological and political regression in relation to the thematization of populism. In particular, the paper aims to develop a conception of populism as regression starting form Neumann's theoretical insights. The psychoanalytical sides of Neumann's political theory is here analyzed starting from his essay Angst und Politik. Neumann's conception of the forms of political anxiety in the contest of right radical political movements is developed looking at the current debate on the forms of contemporary populism, including the conception of Chantal Mouffe and his interpretation of Carl Schmitt's theory of political.
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The paper aims to show that Rahel Jaeggi's objections to Walzer's model of internal critique are in many respects inconsistent, and above all that these objections are a sign of a political deficit in the neo-Hegelian methodology adopted... more
The paper aims to show that Rahel Jaeggi's objections to Walzer's model of internal critique are in many respects inconsistent, and above all that these objections are a sign of a political deficit in the neo-Hegelian methodology adopted by Jaeggi to develop her model of immanent critique. The same deficit concerns Jaeggi's use of Marx's model of the critique of ideology, which can be fruitfully reworked by Walzer's reinterpretation of Gramsci's theory of the struggle for hegemony.
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The article is focused on Honneth's teleology of history, presented as a historical process of gradual realization of an immanent normative 'telos', and not only as a form of axiological evaluation of events and social institutions. The... more
The article is focused on Honneth's teleology of history, presented as a historical process of gradual realization of an immanent normative 'telos', and not only as a form of axiological evaluation of events and social institutions. The author aims to show that this teleology implies a series of problems both on the level of historical analysis and with respect to the theoretical-political and critical-social outcomes of the new Hegelian critical theory. Particularly, it seems to marginalize the contingent character of historical-political conflicts and the related possibility of regressive implications and consequences of such conflicts, leading to a de-politicization of the immanent theoretical framework at stake.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Social Theory, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and 15 moreSocial Philosophy, Politics, Hegel, Capitalism, Honneth, Normativity, Social and Political Philosophy, Frankfurt School, Teleology, Axel Honneth, Contemporary Political Theory, Jürgen Habermas, Social Conflict, Regressions, and Philosphy of History and Research
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The paper aims to give an overview of Carl Schmitt's concept of "Raumrevolution" on the theoretical-epistemological level as well on the juridical-political level, looking in particular at the first planetary spatial revolution of XVI and... more
The paper aims to give an overview of Carl Schmitt's concept of "Raumrevolution" on the theoretical-epistemological level as well on the juridical-political level, looking in particular at the first planetary spatial revolution of XVI and XVII centuries. In order to better explain and develop this concept of "Raumrevolution" I will use Thomas Kuhn's conception of Copernican Revolution, understood as model of his theory of scientific revolutions. I will then try to clarify some elements of the key correlations between this theoretical side and the juridical and political considerations proposed by Schmitt, including the importance assigned to the opposition sea/land and to the conquest of oceans in modernity.
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Starting with Aristotle and moving on to Darwin, Marco Solinas outlines the basic steps from the birth, establishment and later rebirth of the traditional view of living beings, and its overturning by evolutionary revolution. The classic... more
Starting with Aristotle and moving on to Darwin, Marco Solinas outlines the basic steps from the birth, establishment and later rebirth of the traditional view of living beings, and its overturning by evolutionary revolution. The classic framework devised by Aristotle was still dominant in the 17th Century world of Galileo, Harvey and Ray, and remained hegemonic until the time of Lamarck and Cuvier in the 19th Century. Darwin's breakthrough thus takes on the dimensions of an abandonment of the traditional finalistic theory. It was a transition exemplified in the morphological analysis of useless parts, such as the sightless eyes of moles, already discussed by Aristotle, which Darwin used as a crowbar to unhinge the systematic recourse to final causes. With many excerpts, a chronological sequence and an analytical approach, this book follows the course of the two conceptions that have shaped the destiny of life sciences in western culture.
Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy, Epistemology, Classics, History of Ideas, and 40 moreAristotle, History of Science, History and Philosophy of Biology, Biology, Life Sciences, Galileo Galilei, Evolution, Natural Theology, History of Biology, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle's Commentators, Life History Evolution, Aristotelianism, Darwinism, Thomas S. Kuhn, Teleology, Contemporary Aristotelianism, Darwin, History of Darwinism, Renaissance Aristotelianism, History of Western Philosophy, Darwinian evolution, Aristotle's philosophy of biology, Ancient Greek Philosophy / Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Aristóteles, Aristotle's Physics, Aristoteles, Erasmus Darwin, William Paley, Stephen Jay Gould, History of Botany, Lamarckism, William Harvey, History of Evolutionary Biology, History of Philosophy, Georges Cuvier, History and Philosophy of Biology and Ecology, History of Biological Sciences, and Carl Linnaeus
""Solinas’ Studie untersucht den Einfluss von Platons Anschauungen von Traum, Wunsch und Wahn auf den jungen Freud. Anhand der Untersuchung einiger zeitgenössischer kulturwissenschaftlicher Arbeiten, die bereits in die ersten Ausgabe der... more
""Solinas’ Studie untersucht den Einfluss von Platons Anschauungen von Traum, Wunsch und Wahn auf den jungen Freud. Anhand der Untersuchung einiger zeitgenössischer kulturwissenschaftlicher Arbeiten, die bereits in die ersten Ausgabe der Traumdeutung Eingang fanden, wird Freuds nachhaltige Vertrautheit mit den platonischen Lehren erläutert und seine damit einhergehende direkte Textkenntnis der thematisch relevanten Stellen aus Platons Staat aufgezeigt.
Die strukturelle Analogie von Freud’schem und platonischem Seelenbegriff wird inhaltlich am Traum als »Königsweg zum Unbewussten«, in dem von Freud selbst angesprochenen Verhältnis von Eros und Libido sowie an den ethischen und moralischen Dimensionen von Traum und Wahn erkennbar.""
Die strukturelle Analogie von Freud’schem und platonischem Seelenbegriff wird inhaltlich am Traum als »Königsweg zum Unbewussten«, in dem von Freud selbst angesprochenen Verhältnis von Eros und Libido sowie an den ethischen und moralischen Dimensionen von Traum und Wahn erkennbar.""
Research Interests: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Social Psychology, Emotion, Philosophy, and 106 morePolitical Philosophy, Ethics, Classics, Moral Psychology, History of Ideas, Plato, Social Philosophy, Political Psychology, History Of Psychoanalysis, Virtue Ethics, History of Science, Theoretical Psychology, History Of Platonic Tradition, History Of Emotions, Politics, History of Psychiatry, Dream work, Socratic Method, Psychology of Unconscious, Myths and Symbols as carriers of unconscious content, Sigmund Freud, Psychopathology, Morality (Social Psychology), History of Psychology (History), Psychoanalytic Studies, Ethical Theory, Desire, History Of Madness And Psychiatry, Philosophy of Psychopathology, History Of Psychology, Dreams (History), Ancient Philosophy, Socratic Teaching & Learning, Moral Philosophy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, History of Psychoanalysis (History), Depth Psychology, History of Moral Philosophy, Plato's Virtue Ethics, Plato and Platonism, Moral emotions, Dreams (Psychology), Ancient Greek Philosophy, Dreams, Psychoanalysis and Politics, Unconscious cognition, Psychoanalytic Theory, Sigmund Freud (Psychology), Eros, Philosophie, Moral, Filosofía, Dream analysis, Philosophie politique, Sleep and Dreaming, Psychologie, Madness, Freud's psychodymanic theory, Platon, Antike Philosophie, History and Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophie de l'esprit, Philosophie et psychanalyse, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Plato Symposium, Platonic philosophy, Plato's Republic, Psychoanalyse, History of Psychology - Psychology Education - Psychology, History of psychiatry and madness, Platone, Platonic dialogues, Histoire de la philosophie, Platón, Republic (Plato), Socratic Philosophy, Platonic Psychology, History of Madness & Psychiatry, Psychanalyse et philosophie, Psychology of Sleep and Dreaming, Platonic Love, Unconscious Processes, Plato's Phaedrus, Freud and Unconscious Mental Processes, Philosophie, Psychiatrie, Santé Mentale, Plato's Symposium, Plato Republic Justice, Psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan), Geschichte der Medizin, Philosophie morale, History of Philosophy, Sexual Desire, Platonic Political Philosophy, Plato and Freud, Freudian Psychoanalysis, Psychologie Morale, Plato Republic Book 3, Dream Interpretation (Ta'Bir), Sublimation Method, Sexuality (Desire, Cultural Psychoanalytic Theory, Platonic Eros, Geschichte der Philosophie, Psychoanalytische Traumdeutung, Freud, and Platon Und Freud
"Un contributo alla riconfigurazione storiografica e concettuale della rivoluzione evoluzionistica alla luce della tenuta plurisecolare della tradizione biologica aristotelica. La svolta di Darwin si delinea quale puntuale rovesciamento... more
"Un contributo alla riconfigurazione storiografica e concettuale della rivoluzione evoluzionistica alla luce della tenuta plurisecolare della tradizione biologica aristotelica. La svolta di Darwin si delinea quale puntuale rovesciamento dell'impianto fissista, essenzialista e teleologico coniato da Aristotele, ancora dominante nel Seicento di Harvey e di Ray, nonostante Galileo, e poi egemone fino a Linneo e Cuvier. Svolta esemplificata dall'analisi morfologica delle parti inutili, come gli occhi ciechi della talpa, tematizzate già da Aristotele, e che Darwin usò quale grimaldello per scardinare il ricorso sistematico alle cause finali. Antica eredità teleologica presente in varie forme nel concetto di selezione naturale, ma ormai calata entro una griglia eminentemente storica e aperta alla casualità.
The book aims to offer a contribution to the historiographical and conceptual reconfiguration of the evolutionary revolution in the light of the centuries-old tenets of the Aristotelian biological tradition. Darwin’s breakthrough constitutes a thorough overturning of the fixist, essentialist and teleological framework created by Aristotle, a framework still dominant in the 17th Century world of Harvey and Ray, as well as Galileo, and then hegemonic until Linnaeus and Cuvier. This change is exemplified in the morphological analysis of useless parts, such as the sightless eyes of moles, already discussed by Aristotle, and which Darwin used almost like a crowbar to unhinge the systematic recourse to final causes. This is an ancient teleological heritage present in various forms in the concept of natural selection, but by then confined within an eminently historical framework open to randomness."
The book aims to offer a contribution to the historiographical and conceptual reconfiguration of the evolutionary revolution in the light of the centuries-old tenets of the Aristotelian biological tradition. Darwin’s breakthrough constitutes a thorough overturning of the fixist, essentialist and teleological framework created by Aristotle, a framework still dominant in the 17th Century world of Harvey and Ray, as well as Galileo, and then hegemonic until Linnaeus and Cuvier. This change is exemplified in the morphological analysis of useless parts, such as the sightless eyes of moles, already discussed by Aristotle, and which Darwin used almost like a crowbar to unhinge the systematic recourse to final causes. This is an ancient teleological heritage present in various forms in the concept of natural selection, but by then confined within an eminently historical framework open to randomness."
Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy, Epistemology, Classics, Philosophy of Science, and 73 morePhilosophy of Biology, History of Ideas, Aristotle, History of Biology (History), History of Mathematics, Philosophy Of Mathematics, History of Science, History and Philosophy of Biology, Science, Biology, Life Sciences, Galileo Galilei, Evolution, Natural Theology, History of Biology, Ancient Philosophy, History Of Modern Philosophy, Aristotle's Commentators, Life History Evolution, Aristotelianism, Darwinism, Thomas S. Kuhn, Teleology, Contemporary Aristotelianism, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Darwin, Filosofia De La Biologia, History of Darwinism, History of Western Philosophy, Aristotle's philosophy of biology, Early Modern Philosophy, Natural Selection, Philosophie, Ancient Greek Philosophy / Aristotle, Filosofía de la Ciencia, Filosofía, Charles Darwin, Biologia, Aristóteles, Aristotle's Metaphysics, Biología, Antike Philosophie, History and Philosphy of Science, Aristoteles, Erasmus Darwin, William Paley, Stephen Jay Gould, Linneo, Aristotele, Lamarckism, Histoire de la philosophie, Philosophie, Epistémologie et Histoire Des Sciences, - History and philosophy of Science (more especially evolutionary biology), History and Philosophy of Biology,Evolution - Theory and, Darwinian Teleology, Lamarck, Aristotle's Parva Naturalia, Storia della Filosofia, William Harvey, History of Evolutionary Biology, Biología de Aristóteles, History of Philosophy, Storia Della Biologia, Filosofia Della Scienza, Philosophie Des Sciences, Georges Cuvier, Storia Della Scienza, History and Philosophy of Biology and Ecology, History of Biological Sciences, History of Biology and Evolutionary Theory, Alberto Magno Teoria, Aristotle's Teleology, and Carl Linnaeus
""Psiche istituisce un confronto ravvicinato tra la psicologia della "Repubblica" di Platone e la psicoanalisi di Freud. Convergenze e divergenze vengono discusse in relazione sia alla concezione platonica dell'emersione onirica dei... more
""Psiche istituisce un confronto ravvicinato tra la psicologia della "Repubblica" di Platone e la psicoanalisi di Freud. Convergenze e divergenze vengono discusse in relazione sia alla concezione platonica dell'emersione onirica dei desideri repressi, che prefigura la via regia per l'inconscio di Freud, sia all'analisi delle psicopatologie correlate a tali impostazioni teoriche, sia ai due approcci diagnostici e terapeutici adottati. Altro tema cruciale è l'eros platonico - la cui disamina viene estesa anche al "Simposio" e al "Fedro" - ripreso esplicitamente da Freud in relazione al concetto di libido. L'autore affronta, infine, le due tematizzazioni, di natura metapsicologica e non solo, inerenti alla dimensione morale.
Psiche sets up a close-knit comparison between the psychology of Plato's Republic and Freud's psychoanalysis. Convergences and divergences are discussed in relation both to the Platonic conception of the oneiric emergence of repressed desires that prefigures the main path of Freud's subconscious, to the analysis of the psychopathologies related to these theoretical formulations and to the two diagnostic and therapeutic approaches adopted. Another crucial theme is the Platonic eros - the examination of which is also extended to the Symposium and Phaedrus - taken up explicitly by Freud in relation to the concept of libido. Finally, the author also addresses the two themes - of, inter alia, a metapsychological nature - inherent to the moral dimension.""
Psiche sets up a close-knit comparison between the psychology of Plato's Republic and Freud's psychoanalysis. Convergences and divergences are discussed in relation both to the Platonic conception of the oneiric emergence of repressed desires that prefigures the main path of Freud's subconscious, to the analysis of the psychopathologies related to these theoretical formulations and to the two diagnostic and therapeutic approaches adopted. Another crucial theme is the Platonic eros - the examination of which is also extended to the Symposium and Phaedrus - taken up explicitly by Freud in relation to the concept of libido. Finally, the author also addresses the two themes - of, inter alia, a metapsychological nature - inherent to the moral dimension.""
Research Interests: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Classics, and 100 moreMoral Psychology, History of Ideas, Plato, Social Philosophy, History Of Psychoanalysis, History of Science, History Of Platonic Tradition, History of Psychiatry, Virtues (Moral Psychology), Psychology of Unconscious, Myths and Symbols as carriers of unconscious content, Sigmund Freud, Psychopathology, History of Psychology (History), History Of Madness And Psychiatry, History Of Psychology, Dreams (History), Visions And Dreams, Ancient Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, History of Psychoanalysis (History), History of Freudianism, Theory of Mind (Psychology), Ancient Medicine, Plato's Virtue Ethics, Plato and Platonism, Moral emotions, Dreams (Psychology), Ancient Greek Philosophy, Dreams, Platonism, Psychoanalysis and Politics, Unconscious cognition, Psychoanalytic Theory, Sigmund Freud (Psychology), Eros, Filosofía Política, Philosophie, Madness in the ancient world, Moral, Filosofía, Dream analysis, Psicología, Sleep and Dreaming, Psychologie, Ética, Psicoanálisis, Madness, Unconscious, Ética (Filosofia), History of Dreams, History of Psychoanlysis, Platon, Antike Philosophie, Psicoanalisis, History and Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophie de l'esprit, History of discovery of the unconscious, Philosophie et psychanalyse, Platonic philosophy, Plato's Republic, History of Psychology - Psychology Education - Psychology, History of psychiatry and madness, Platone, Platonic dialogues, Platón, Sogno e visione, Republic (Plato), History of Madness & Psychiatry, Psychanalyse et philosophie, Philosophie, Epistémologie et Histoire Des Sciences, Unconscious Processes, Filosofía política y psicoanalisis, Psicoanalisi, Storia delle idee, Plato's Phaedrus, Storia della Filosofia, Freud and Unconscious Mental Processes, History of dreaming/dreams, Filosofia morale, Psicoanálisis Y Filosofía, Philosophie, Psychiatrie, Santé Mentale, Plato Republic Justice, Philosophie morale, Unconscious Thought Theory, History of Philosophy, Storia della filosofia antica, Psychoanalysis, History of psychoanalysis,History of ideas, Storia Della Scienza, Historia y epistemologíia del psicoanálisis, Filosofia Antica, Storia della psicologia, Freudian Psychoanalysis, Platonismo, Inconscio, Dream Interpretation (Ta'Bir), Sogno Nel Mondo Classico, I Sogni Nel Mondo Antico, and I Greci E Il Sogno
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L’idea di socialismo, che per più di centocinquanta anni ha fornito un puntello normativo e una prospettiva storica all’indignazione per le condizioni di vita determinate dal capitalismo, sembra oggi aver perduto di ogni fascino.... more
L’idea di socialismo, che per più di centocinquanta anni ha fornito un puntello normativo e una prospettiva storica all’indignazione per le condizioni di vita determinate dal capitalismo, sembra oggi aver perduto di ogni fascino. Nonostante un disagio crescente, è attualmente infatti molto difficile che qualcuno si lasci nuovamente indurre a ideare una forma di vita che, in nome del socialismo, si spinga al di là del capitalismo. Come possiamo spiegare il rapido invecchiamento di un’idea che è stata invero talmente affascinante? E che cosa dobbiamo fare per rilanciare nel nostro tempo tale idea?
L’idea di socialismo ha perso il suo splendore – sostiene Axel Honneth nel suo lucido saggio politico-filosofico – perché in essa operano delle assunzioni teoretiche di fondo che risalgono all’epica dell’industrialismo e che oggi, però, nel XXI secolo, non hanno più alcuna forza persuasiva. Esse devono essere sostituite, e segnatamente attraverso delle definizioni di storia e di società che siano appropriate alla situazione in cui oggi viviamo. Soltanto se riusciremo in tale compito potremo riconquistare la fiducia in un progetto ancora conforme al nostro tempo, e che contempli altresì una modellizzazione dell’economia che corrisponda ad una libertà intesa in senso solidale.
L’idea di socialismo ha perso il suo splendore – sostiene Axel Honneth nel suo lucido saggio politico-filosofico – perché in essa operano delle assunzioni teoretiche di fondo che risalgono all’epica dell’industrialismo e che oggi, però, nel XXI secolo, non hanno più alcuna forza persuasiva. Esse devono essere sostituite, e segnatamente attraverso delle definizioni di storia e di società che siano appropriate alla situazione in cui oggi viviamo. Soltanto se riusciremo in tale compito potremo riconquistare la fiducia in un progetto ancora conforme al nostro tempo, e che contempli altresì una modellizzazione dell’economia che corrisponda ad una libertà intesa in senso solidale.
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"Capitalismo e riconoscimento" presenta, in cinque saggi per la prima volta raccolti insieme e tradotti in italiano, una densa e pregnante analisi di taluni cruciali processi socio-strutturali, morali e normativi delle società... more
"Capitalismo e riconoscimento" presenta, in cinque saggi per la prima volta raccolti insieme e tradotti in italiano, una densa e pregnante analisi di taluni cruciali processi socio-strutturali, morali e normativi delle società capitalistiche contemporanee dalla prospettiva delle dinamiche del reciproco riconoscimento e del disrispetto concernenti la sfera del lavoro. Particolare attenzione è dedicata ai paradossali rovesciamenti delle istanze di autorealizzazione, autonomia e responsabilità personale registratisi negli ultimi decenni nel quadro di un mercato del lavoro sempre più deregolato.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Sociology, Social Theory, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and 65 moreSociology of Work, Social Sciences, Social Identity, Social Philosophy, Theodor Adorno, Critical Thinking, Political Science, Critical Social Theory, Ideology, Social Justice, Continental Philosophy, Hegel, Recognition, Politics of Recognition, Capitalism, Philosophy of Social Science, Theories of Ideology, Critique of Political Economy, Labour Studies, Sociological Theory, Work and Labour, Labour Economics, Ideology Critique, G.W.F. Hegel, Moral Philosophy, Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Social Conflict Theory, Political Ideology, Frankfurt School, Durkheim, Critical and Cultural Theory, Emile Durkheim, Axel Honneth, Hegel (Philosophy) (Philosophy), Filosofía Política, Sociologia, Filosofía, The Hegelian Recognition / The Dialectic of Master and Slave Relationship, Theories of recognition (Honneth) and issues of justice, Sociología, Labour Market, Durkheimian Studies, Social Injustice, Capitalismo, Teoría Crítica, Critical Social Research, Economia Política, Critical Theory of Capitalism, Social Conflict, Ideologia, Teoria Crítica Social, Social Suffering and Structural Injustice, Diritto Del Lavoro, Theory of Justice, Labour Market Dynamics, History and theory of recognition, Neoliberalism, Capitalism, Contradictions, Filosofia Politica, Filosofia Sociale, Teoria Sociológica, Giustizia Sociale, Teoria Critica, Critical Theory (Honneth, Socio Political Philosophy, and Politiche Sociali E Politiche Del Lavoro
The paper aims to provide a critical analysis of Marx’s normative conception, both in terms of his economicistc mistakes and in relation to the normative principles implied in his general theoretical framework. The attention is then... more
The paper aims to provide a critical analysis of Marx’s normative conception, both in terms of his economicistc mistakes and in relation to the normative principles implied in his general theoretical framework. The attention is then focused on Marx’s immanent critique of capitalism, also in relation to the normative interpretation of socialism recently presented by Axel Honneth; the Author highlights as Marx’s concept of freedom is linked to the idea of liberation from forced labour.
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The paper aims to clarify the interpretation of Kantian morality and Hegelian ethical life given by Honneth and Habermas; it tries in particularly to explain the several meanings and forms of Honneth’s relaunch of Hegel’s conception of... more
The paper aims to clarify the interpretation of Kantian morality and Hegelian ethical life given by Honneth and Habermas; it tries in particularly to explain the several meanings and forms of Honneth’s relaunch of Hegel’s conception of Sittlichkeit. The Author aims at the same time to show some structural limits of this neo-Hegelian ethical perspective from a political point of view, also in relation to the concept of «immanent critique» adopted by Honneth, and differentiated by him from the concept of «internal criticism» developed by Michael Walzer. The Author observes that the immanent approach of Honneth’s normative reconstruction and social critique seems to have some problems to take in account the plurality of different and conflicting ethical-political orientations.
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The paper starts from the thesis that in social reality every experiences of injustice of single individuals or social groups always has an emotional dimension, and that it can be interpreted as a breach of the normative unwritten social... more
The paper starts from the thesis that in social reality every experiences of injustice of single individuals or social groups always has an emotional dimension, and that it can be interpreted as a breach of the normative unwritten social contract of a specific society in a certain historical period. This thesis is analysed within Barrington Moore Jr.’s theoretical framework, and then discussed in the light of Honneth’s theory of disrespect as the negative side of recognition. Proceeding with a problematization of Honneth’s interpretation of the relation between disrespect and negative emotional reactions, the paper finally draws attention to the «regressive» emotional effects of experiences of injustice.
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The aim of this paper is to show that Honneth’s philosophy of history is teleological in a narrow sense. This teleological character is problematic for the theory of the struggle for recognition, for the conception of history as such,... more
The aim of this paper is to show that Honneth’s philosophy of history is teleological in a narrow sense. This teleological character is problematic for the theory of the struggle for recognition, for the conception of history as such, and for the methodology of the normative reconstruction. In particular, the teleological conception gives to the theory of recognition a historical form that points out a unilateral character. Furthermore, the teleological neo-Hegelian methodology of normative reconstruction seems to adopt a too stark trust in the progress of human societies faced with the problem of social, political and cultural regressions.
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The paper aims at introducing some fundamental features of the Italian reception of Rahel Jaeggi's Critical Theory, moving from the present discussion of the collection of essays entitled Forme di vita e capitalismo edited by M. Solinas.... more
The paper aims at introducing some fundamental features of the Italian reception of Rahel Jaeggi's Critical Theory, moving from the present discussion of the collection of essays entitled Forme di vita e capitalismo edited by M. Solinas. The attention is focused in particular on Jaeggi's peculiar actualization of the Left Hege-lianism tradition on two main fields: 1) the critique of capitalism as a form of life; 2) the priority given to ethical life (Sittlichkeit) and the related adoption of the method of immanent critique.
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The paper concerns the analysis of the connections between normative dimension and emotional reactions, and particularly between the sense of injustice and the moral anger outlined by Barrington Moore and Axel Honneth. The Author starts... more
The paper concerns the analysis of the connections between normative dimension and emotional reactions, and particularly between the sense of injustice and the moral anger outlined by Barrington Moore and Axel Honneth. The Author starts by discussing the theory of Moore regained by Axel Honneth, then he offers an analysis of the theory of disrespect (Missachtung) outlined by Honneth in Struggle for Recognition. The Author criticizes this theory, particularly he outlines an analysis of the regressive emotional reactions activated by specific experiences of injustice.
Il saggio è dedicato all’analisi delle correlazioni tra dimensione normativa e reazioni emotive, e più in particolare tra senso dell’ingiustizia e collera morale proposte da Barrington Moore e Axel Honneth. Si parte dalla teoria di Moore ripresa da Honneth, per poi concentrare l’attenzione sulla teoria dello spregio (Missachtung) delineata da Honneth in Lotta per il riconoscimento. Tale teoria viene quindi problematizzata, soprattutto attraverso una analisi delle reazioni emotive di taglio regressivo che seguono a determinate esperienze di ingiustizia.
Il saggio è dedicato all’analisi delle correlazioni tra dimensione normativa e reazioni emotive, e più in particolare tra senso dell’ingiustizia e collera morale proposte da Barrington Moore e Axel Honneth. Si parte dalla teoria di Moore ripresa da Honneth, per poi concentrare l’attenzione sulla teoria dello spregio (Missachtung) delineata da Honneth in Lotta per il riconoscimento. Tale teoria viene quindi problematizzata, soprattutto attraverso una analisi delle reazioni emotive di taglio regressivo che seguono a determinate esperienze di ingiustizia.
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L'articolo propone di utilizzare il metodo adottato da Franco Basaglia per negare e superare i manicomi tradizionali per l'abolizione e negazione graduale del carcere.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Political Philosophy, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Social Philosophy, and 12 morePolitical Science, Politics, History of Psychiatry, Asylum, History Of Madness And Psychiatry, Franco Basaglia, Social and Political Philosophy, Critical Prison Studies, History of prisons, Punishment and Prisons, Prisons, and Prison
A partir du renvoi à la « maxime de Platon » insérée dans l’avant dernière page de la première édition de L’interprétation du rêve, l’auteur expose d’abord les convergences entre la conception du rêve de Platon présentée dans La... more
A partir du renvoi à la « maxime de Platon » insérée dans l’avant dernière page de la première édition de L’interprétation du rêve, l’auteur expose d’abord les convergences entre la conception du rêve de Platon présentée dans La République et les intuitions qui fondent l’édifice métapsychologique freudien. A la lumière des sources textuelles citées par Freud et de ses intérêts, l’auteur avance ensuite l’hypothèse selon laquelle Freud aurait non seulement omis de reconnaître la généalogie théorétique platonicienne de la « via regia menant à la connaissance de l’inconscient », mais aussi utilisé le dialogue antique comme source d’inspiration tacite pour la composition de L’Interprétation du rêve.
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"Patterns of psychoanalysis and theory of recognition. Axel Honneth’s intersubjective psyche". An overview of the several scopes and patterns used over time by Axel Honneth in his “theory of recognition” is presented. After a discussion... more
"Patterns of psychoanalysis and theory of recognition. Axel Honneth’s intersubjective psyche". An overview of the several scopes and patterns used over time by Axel Honneth in his “theory of recognition” is presented. After a discussion of the use of object relations theory (especially with reference to D.W. Winnicott’s contributions) in Honneth’s 1992 book Struggle for Recognition, the theoretical revision of psychoanalysis in light of his theory of recognition is examined. Finally, Honneth’s suggestion of a new alliance between a renewed “critical theory” and psychoanalysis, which concerns also the dimension of political psychology, is discussed.
Viene offerta una panoramica sui differenti usi e le diverse forme di psicoanalisi utilizzate da Axel Honneth in relazione alla sua “teoria del riconoscimento” nel corso del tempo. Dopo una discussione dell’uso della teoria delle relazioni oggettuali (soprattutto nella concezione di D.W. Winnicott) in Lotta per il riconoscimento, del 1992, si prende in esame la revisione della psicoanalisi operata in termini di teoria del riconoscimento. Infine viene discussa la proposta di una nuova alleanza tra una “teoria critica” rinnovata e la psicoanalisi, che contempla anche il versante della psicologia politica.
Viene offerta una panoramica sui differenti usi e le diverse forme di psicoanalisi utilizzate da Axel Honneth in relazione alla sua “teoria del riconoscimento” nel corso del tempo. Dopo una discussione dell’uso della teoria delle relazioni oggettuali (soprattutto nella concezione di D.W. Winnicott) in Lotta per il riconoscimento, del 1992, si prende in esame la revisione della psicoanalisi operata in termini di teoria del riconoscimento. Infine viene discussa la proposta di una nuova alleanza tra una “teoria critica” rinnovata e la psicoanalisi, che contempla anche il versante della psicologia politica.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Sociology, Social Theory, Psychoanalysis, Political Philosophy, and 33 moreSocial Sciences, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Political Science, Critical Social Theory, Pattern Recognition, Recognition, Sigmund Freud, Honneth, Object Relations, Social and Political Philosophy, Erich Fromm, Donald W. Winnicott, Axel Honneth, Psychoanalysis and Politics, Object Relations (Psychology), Psychoanalytic Theory, Sigmund Freud (Psychology), Recognition Theory, Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis, Theories of recognition (Honneth) and issues of justice, Riconoscimento, Axel Honneth, Honneth, the Struggle for Recognition, Psicoanalisi, Freudo-Marxism, D. W. Winnicott, Teoria Critica, Critical Theory (Honneth, Winnicott, Scienze Sociali, Filosofia, Freud, and Teoria Del Riconoscimento
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The paper presents a critique of Marcuse’s theory of “false needs”. It aims to clear the theoretical ground necessary to sketch out an immanent critique of the socio-economical dynamics that dictate the exhausting, and oft endless... more
The paper presents a critique of Marcuse’s theory of “false needs”. It aims to clear the theoretical ground necessary to sketch out an immanent critique of the socio-economical dynamics that dictate the exhausting, and oft endless postponement of the satisfaction of a multiplicity of mass needs and desires. The paper focuses its attention on some paradoxes produced by Marcuse’s theory, correlated in particular with the critique of the wellbeing of the masses, and with the manipulative superpower ascribed to ideology. These paradoxes are interpreted as expressions of a radical distance between critic and the social reality and of a paternalistic drift, which can both be overcome by the introduction of a immanent critique.
Il contributo presenta una critica della teoria dei “falsi bisogni” di Marcuse. Tale critica è volta a liberare lo spazio teorico necessario per impostare una critica immanente delle dinamiche socio-economiche che impongono un estenuante e spesso infinito differimento della soddisfazione di una molteplicità di desideri e bisogni di massa. Ci si sofferma su alcuni paradossi generati dalla teoria di Marcuse, correlati in particolare alla critica rivolta al benessere raggiunto dalle masse, ed allo strapotere manipolatorio attribuito all’ideologia. Tali paradossi vengono interpretati come espressione di un radicale distacco tra il critico e la realtà sociale, e di una sua deriva paternalistica, che possono essere superati attraverso l’adozione di una critica di tipo immanente.
Il contributo presenta una critica della teoria dei “falsi bisogni” di Marcuse. Tale critica è volta a liberare lo spazio teorico necessario per impostare una critica immanente delle dinamiche socio-economiche che impongono un estenuante e spesso infinito differimento della soddisfazione di una molteplicità di desideri e bisogni di massa. Ci si sofferma su alcuni paradossi generati dalla teoria di Marcuse, correlati in particolare alla critica rivolta al benessere raggiunto dalle masse, ed allo strapotere manipolatorio attribuito all’ideologia. Tali paradossi vengono interpretati come espressione di un radicale distacco tra il critico e la realtà sociale, e di una sua deriva paternalistica, che possono essere superati attraverso l’adozione di una critica di tipo immanente.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Social Movements, Social Theory, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and 45 moreSocial Policy, Social Research Methods and Methodology, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Marxism, Social Philosophy, Frankfurt School (Philosophy), Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Social Movement, Political Science, Critical Social Theory, Language and Ideology, Politics, Ideology, Social Justice, Continental Philosophy, Marcuse, Capitalism, Marxist theory, Contemporary Social Theory, Desire, Social movements and revolution, Social Conflict Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Frankfurt School, Critical and Cultural Theory, Karl Marx, Social and Political Thought, Filosofía Política, Movimientos sociales, Filosofía, Marxismo, Sciences sociales, Social and Political Sciences, Scienza Politica, SCIENZE POLITICHE, Social and Political Theory, Social and political science, Filosofia Sociale, History of Philosophy, Teoria Critica, Critical Theory/Frankfurt School, Scienze Sociali, and Filosofia
The essay aims to offer a critical theory of psychosocial processes of regressive and depressive type. The Author starts by discussing the determining influence attributed to social suffering in the framework of the moral grammar of... more
The essay aims to offer a critical theory of psychosocial processes of regressive and depressive type. The Author starts by discussing the determining influence attributed to social suffering in the framework of the moral grammar of social struggle outlined by Axel Honneth, then he offers an analysis of the regressive reactions activate by disrespect experiences. The Author discusses some important points of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, in particularly Benjamin’s critique of traditional concept of progress, and the determining role attributed to suffering; points that are translated and moved in the framework of the analysis of regressive processes. Lastly, the Author shows how a critical theory that aims to reactivate the emancipatory potential immanent in the social suffering today frustrated may find an incisive and productive approach in a critical analysis of regressions.
Il saggio mira ad offrire una teoria critica dei processi psicosociali di taglio regressivo e depressivo. L’autore muove dalla centralità attribuita alla sofferenza sociale nel quadro della grammatica morale delle lotte sociali delineato da Axel Honneth, concentrandosi poi sulle reazioni di carattere regressivo indotte dalle esperienze di spregio. Segue la ripresa di alcuni punti fondamentali della filosofia della storia di Walter Benjamin, in particolare della sua critica alla concezione tradizionale di progresso, e la sua peculiare valorizzazione della sofferenza; spunti tradotti e traslati nell’ambito dell’analisi dei processi regressivi. Infine, l’autore mostra come una teoria critica che voglia riattivare i potenziali emancipatori immanenti alla sofferenza sociale oggi frustrati possa trovare un approccio incisivo e fecondo in una analisi critica delle regressioni.
Il saggio mira ad offrire una teoria critica dei processi psicosociali di taglio regressivo e depressivo. L’autore muove dalla centralità attribuita alla sofferenza sociale nel quadro della grammatica morale delle lotte sociali delineato da Axel Honneth, concentrandosi poi sulle reazioni di carattere regressivo indotte dalle esperienze di spregio. Segue la ripresa di alcuni punti fondamentali della filosofia della storia di Walter Benjamin, in particolare della sua critica alla concezione tradizionale di progresso, e la sua peculiare valorizzazione della sofferenza; spunti tradotti e traslati nell’ambito dell’analisi dei processi regressivi. Infine, l’autore mostra come una teoria critica che voglia riattivare i potenziali emancipatori immanenti alla sofferenza sociale oggi frustrati possa trovare un approccio incisivo e fecondo in una analisi critica delle regressioni.
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"Muovendo dal richiamo al «detto di Platone» inserito nella penultima pagina della prima edizione de "L’interpretazione dei sogni" di Freud (1899), vengono preliminarmente esposte le convergenze tra la concezione del sogno di Platone... more
"Muovendo dal richiamo al «detto di Platone» inserito nella penultima pagina della prima edizione de "L’interpretazione dei sogni" di Freud (1899), vengono preliminarmente esposte le convergenze tra la concezione del sogno di Platone esposta ne "La Repubblica" e le intuizioni poste alla base dell’edificio freudiano. Alla luce delle fonti testuali citate e utilizzate da Freud, e dei suoi interessi, viene poi avanzata l’ipotesi che egli non soltanto abbia omesso di riconoscere la genealogia teoretica platonica della «via regia che porta alla conoscenza dell’inconscio» (p. 282), ma che l’antico dialogo abbia potuto rappresentare una fonte tacita di ispirazione per la composizione de "L’interpretazione dei sogni".
Starting with the reference to “Plato’s dictum” that Freud added in the second last page of the first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams, the author explains the convergences between the conception of dreams expounded by Plato in the Republic and Freud’s fundamental insights. The analysis of bibliographic sources used by Freud, and of his interests, allow than to suppose not only that Freud omitted to acknowledge the Plato’s theoretical genealogy of “the Via Regia to the unconscious”, but also the possibility that the Republic constituted a tacit source of inspiration for the composition of The Interpretations of dreams."
Starting with the reference to “Plato’s dictum” that Freud added in the second last page of the first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams, the author explains the convergences between the conception of dreams expounded by Plato in the Republic and Freud’s fundamental insights. The analysis of bibliographic sources used by Freud, and of his interests, allow than to suppose not only that Freud omitted to acknowledge the Plato’s theoretical genealogy of “the Via Regia to the unconscious”, but also the possibility that the Republic constituted a tacit source of inspiration for the composition of The Interpretations of dreams."
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"Il saggio mira a individuare e delucidare alcuni nessi causali tra il concomitante incremento dei fenomeni depressivi, non solo in senso strettamente clinico, e l’affermazione del nuovo modello capitalistico avvenuto nei paesi... more
"Il saggio mira a individuare e delucidare alcuni nessi causali tra il concomitante incremento dei fenomeni depressivi, non solo in senso strettamente clinico, e l’affermazione del nuovo modello capitalistico avvenuto nei paesi occidentali dai primi anni settanta ad oggi. Oltre che sul meccanismo della flessibilità del mercato del lavoro, si insiste in particolare sulle dinamiche paradossali delle istanze etiche e morali della nuova configurazione ideologica. Ricorrendo anche alla categoria di egemonia, vengono da ultimo approntati degli strumenti teorici finalizzati a riattivare i potenziali emancipativi frustrati nella sofferenza sociale di natura depressiva e regressiva.
The paper aims to single out and clarify some causal connections between theconcomitant growth of depressive phenomena, not only in the strict clinicalsense, and the establishment of the new capitalist model, which has taken place in Western countries from the early seventies until today. As well as onthe mechanism of labour market flexibility, the essay dwells in particular onthe paradoxical dynamics of the ethical and moral ideals of the newideological configuration. Finally, the paper will also use the category of hegemony to offer some theoretical instruments directed at reactivating theemancipatory potentials frustrated by social suffering of a depressive andregressive nature."
The paper aims to single out and clarify some causal connections between theconcomitant growth of depressive phenomena, not only in the strict clinicalsense, and the establishment of the new capitalist model, which has taken place in Western countries from the early seventies until today. As well as onthe mechanism of labour market flexibility, the essay dwells in particular onthe paradoxical dynamics of the ethical and moral ideals of the newideological configuration. Finally, the paper will also use the category of hegemony to offer some theoretical instruments directed at reactivating theemancipatory potentials frustrated by social suffering of a depressive andregressive nature."
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Sociology, Social Theory, Psychology, Social Psychology, and 53 morePhilosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Sciences, Social Philosophy, Political Psychology, Depression, Frankfurt School (Philosophy), Critical Thinking, Political Science, Critical Social Theory, Critical Psychology, Social Justice, Continental Philosophy, Psychopathology, Capitalism, Critical Social Psychology, Social Philosophy (Philosophy), Gramsci, Moral Philosophy, The Frankfurt School, Social and Political Philosophy, Frankfurt School, Political and Social Philosophy, Ethics, Antonio Gramsci, Cultures of Capital and Capitalism, Axel Honneth, Gramsci and Cultural Hegemony, Filosofía Política, Sociologia, Filosofía, Political Sciences, Sociología, Labour Market, Psicologia Social, Capitalismo, Teoría Crítica, Psicología Social, Critical Social Research, Critical Theory of Capitalism, Social Conflict, Teoria Crítica Social, Spirit of Capitalism, Filosofia Sociale, Teoria Crítica, Philosophy and Social Sciences, Souffrance Au Travail, Teorìa Crìtica, Teoria Critica, Contemporary Capitalism, Social Psycologhical Pathologies, Critical Theory/Frankfurt School, Filosofia, and Scuola Di Francoforte
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Social Theory, and 76 morePolitical Economy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Normative Ethics, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Marxism, Marxist Economics, Social Identity, Social Philosophy, Frankfurt School (Philosophy), Critical Thinking, Political Science, Critical Social Theory, Politics, Social Justice, Continental Philosophy, Recognition, Politics of Recognition, Capitalism, Justice, Marxist theory, Neoliberalism, Theories of Justice, Normativity, Social Exclusion, Sociological Theory, Social Justice Issues, Moral Philosophy, Social Inclusion, Social Conflict Theory, Western Marxism, The Frankfurt School, Frankfurt School, Marxism (Political Science), Social and Political Theories of Justice & Human Rights, Marxist political economy, Karl Marx, Axel Honneth, Social Inequality, Filosofía Política, Philosophie, Conflictos Sociales, Sociologia, Political Identity, Filosofía, Politische Philosophie, Philosophie politique, Marxismo, Political Sciences, Sociología, Social Injustice, Ética (Filosofia), Teoría Crítica, Justicia, reconocimiento, teoría crítica, Social Conflict, Normative Political Theory, Social Suffering, Riconoscimento, Teoria Crítica Social, Social Suffering and Structural Injustice, Theory of Justice, History and theory of recognition, Teoria Crítica, Giustizia Sociale, Autorità, Potere, Riconoscimento, Philosophie morale, Social Injustices, Teorìa Crìtica, Critical theory and Frankfurt school - Marx, Teoria Critica, Human Rights and Social Justice, Critical Theory/Frankfurt School, Economic Injustice, Social Justice Theory, and Scuola Di Francoforte
"Der Aufsatz zielt darauf, der Prozess der historischen Überlagerung, Substitution und Verbreitung des theoretischen Paradigmas der Depression gegenüber jenem der Melancholie darzustellen. Im ersten Teil wird versucht, einige der... more
"Der Aufsatz zielt darauf, der Prozess der historischen Überlagerung, Substitution und Verbreitung des theoretischen Paradigmas der Depression gegenüber jenem der Melancholie darzustellen. Im ersten Teil wird versucht, einige der einschneidenden Eigenschaften der Thematisierungen der Melancholie in der Frühen Neuzeit anzugeben, auch im Verhältnis zum Geist des Kapitalismus. Nachdem eine Skizze der Entstehung der moderne Kategorie der Depression, geht es darum, den Verlauf nachzuzeichnen, der im 20. Jahrhundert zu ihrer Transformation in ein weitläufiges theoretisches Paradigma geführt hat, das schließlich jenes der Melancholie ersetzt hat. Der zweite Teil stellt den Versuch dar, eine Zeitdiagnose umzureißen: An dieser Stelle ist die psychosoziale Bedeutung bestimmter sozioökonomischer und kultureller Mechanismen zu untersuchen, unter besonderem Hinweis auf das, was als »der neue Geist des Kapitalismus« bezeichnet worden ist, sowie auf neue Formen des Individualismus und ihre paradoxen Dynamiken. Abschließend wird eine Brücke geschlagen, zwischen der Geschichte der beiden bezeichneten Paradigmen und der zeitgenössischen psychosozialen Dynamiken, die mit dem als »depressive Epidemie« interpretierten Phänomen verbunden sind.
The essay aims to analyse the gradual historical process of the partial overlap, replacement and expansion of the theoretical paradigm of depression with respect to that of melancholy. The first part is devoted to analysing some of the central features of the multivalent thematizations of melancholy drawn up during modernity, also with relation to the spirit of capitalism (in its Weberian acceptation). This is followed by an overview of the birth of the modern category of depression, and the process that during the twentieth century led to its transformation into a theoretical and nosological paradigm which in the end replaced that of melancholy. The second part is the attempt to draw up a Zeitdiagnose: the aim is to assess the ‘depressive’ psychosocial impact exercised by particular socio-economic mechanisms and cultural trends, with particular reference to what has been defined as the ‘new spirit of capitalism’, as well as the new forms of individualism and their paradoxical dynamics. In conclusion, I will form a bridge between the history of the two aforesaid paradigms and the contemporary psychosocial dynamics correlated to the phenomenon today interpreted as a ‘depression epidemic’."
The essay aims to analyse the gradual historical process of the partial overlap, replacement and expansion of the theoretical paradigm of depression with respect to that of melancholy. The first part is devoted to analysing some of the central features of the multivalent thematizations of melancholy drawn up during modernity, also with relation to the spirit of capitalism (in its Weberian acceptation). This is followed by an overview of the birth of the modern category of depression, and the process that during the twentieth century led to its transformation into a theoretical and nosological paradigm which in the end replaced that of melancholy. The second part is the attempt to draw up a Zeitdiagnose: the aim is to assess the ‘depressive’ psychosocial impact exercised by particular socio-economic mechanisms and cultural trends, with particular reference to what has been defined as the ‘new spirit of capitalism’, as well as the new forms of individualism and their paradoxical dynamics. In conclusion, I will form a bridge between the history of the two aforesaid paradigms and the contemporary psychosocial dynamics correlated to the phenomenon today interpreted as a ‘depression epidemic’."
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Cultural History, Sociology, Social Theory, Psychology, and 46 moreSocial Psychology, Emotion, Philosophy, Moral Psychology, History of Ideas, Social Sciences, History of Medicine, Social Philosophy, Depression, History Of Emotions, Social Justice, History of Psychiatry, Psychopathology, Melancholy, Capitalism, History Of Madness And Psychiatry, Work and Labour, History Of Psychology, Social and Political Philosophy, Depression (Psychology), Philosophie, Sociologia, Politische Philosophie, Melancholy Studies, Labour, Psychologie, Madness, Sociología, Critical Theory of Capitalism, Social Conflict, History of psychiatry and madness, Psychopharmacology, Depression in particular, Renaissance melancholy and hypochondria, Melancholy, History of medicine, History of Madness & Psychiatry, Depression and Melancholy, Labour Market Dynamics, Psychopathologie, Melancholie, History of Philosophy, History of Melancholy, Melancholy In Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Kapitalismus, Kapitalismuskritik, Contemporary Capitalism, and Socio Political Philosophy
"Il saggio mira ad analizzare il graduale processo storico di parziale sovrapposizione, sostituzione ed ampliamento del paradigma teoretico della depressione rispetto a quello della melanconia. La prima parte è dedicata ad analizzare... more
"Il saggio mira ad analizzare il graduale processo storico di parziale sovrapposizione, sostituzione ed ampliamento del paradigma teoretico della depressione rispetto a quello della melanconia. La prima parte è dedicata ad analizzare alcuni dei tratti nevralgici delle polivalenti tematizzazioni della malinconia avvenuti nel corso della modernità, anche in relazione allo spirito del capitalismo (nella sua accezione weberiana). Segue una panoramica sulla nascita della categoria moderna di depressione, e del processo che nel corso del XX secolo l’ha condotta alla sua trasformazione in un paradigma teoretico e nosologico che ha infine sostituito quello della melanconia. La seconda parte rappresenta il tentativo di elaborare una Zeitdiagnose: l’obiettivo è valutare l’impatto psicosociale di natura ‘depressiva’ esercitato da particolari meccanismi socioeconomici e tendenze culturali, con particolare riferimento a ciò che è stato definito il «nuovo spirito del capitalismo», nonché alle nuove forme dell’individualismo e alle loro dinamiche paradossali. In conclusione viene gettato un ponte tra la storia dei due suddetti paradigmi e le dinamiche psicosociali contemporanee correlate al fenomeno oggi interpretato quale «epidemia depressiva».
The essay aims to analyse the gradual historical process of the partial overlap, replacement and expansion of the theoretical paradigm of depression with respect to that of melancholy. The first part is devoted to analysing some of the central features of the multivalent thematizations of melancholy drawn up during modernity, also with relation to the spirit of capitalism (in its Weberian acceptation). This is followed by an overview of the birth of the modern category of depression, and the process that during the twentieth century led to its transformation into a theoretical and nosological paradigm which in the end replaced that of melancholy. The second part is the attempt to draw up a Zeitdiagnose: the aim is to assess the ‘depressive’ psychosocial impact exercised by particular socio-economic mechanisms and cultural trends, with particular reference to what has been defined as the ‘new spirit of capitalism’, as well as the new forms of individualism and their paradoxical dynamics. In conclusion, I will form a bridge between the history of the two aforesaid paradigms and the contemporary psychosocial dynamics correlated to the phenomenon today interpreted as a ‘depression epidemic’."
The essay aims to analyse the gradual historical process of the partial overlap, replacement and expansion of the theoretical paradigm of depression with respect to that of melancholy. The first part is devoted to analysing some of the central features of the multivalent thematizations of melancholy drawn up during modernity, also with relation to the spirit of capitalism (in its Weberian acceptation). This is followed by an overview of the birth of the modern category of depression, and the process that during the twentieth century led to its transformation into a theoretical and nosological paradigm which in the end replaced that of melancholy. The second part is the attempt to draw up a Zeitdiagnose: the aim is to assess the ‘depressive’ psychosocial impact exercised by particular socio-economic mechanisms and cultural trends, with particular reference to what has been defined as the ‘new spirit of capitalism’, as well as the new forms of individualism and their paradoxical dynamics. In conclusion, I will form a bridge between the history of the two aforesaid paradigms and the contemporary psychosocial dynamics correlated to the phenomenon today interpreted as a ‘depression epidemic’."
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Social Theory, Psychology, Social Psychology, Emotion, and 45 morePhilosophy, Moral Psychology, History of Ideas, History of Medicine, Social Philosophy, Critical Social Theory, History Of Emotions, History of Psychiatry, Melancholia generosa, Psychopathology, Melancholy, Emotions (Social Psychology), History Of Madness And Psychiatry, History Of Psychology, Social and Political Philosophy, Melancholia (Art), Emotions, Filosofía Política, Filosofía social, Filosofía, Melancholy Studies, Madness, Teoría Crítica, Psicología Social, History of psychiatry and madness, Melancholia, Mourning and melancholia, Renaissance melancholy and hypochondria, Melancholy, History of medicine, History of Madness & Psychiatry, Depression and Melancholy, Early Modern Medical Treatises on Melancholy, Literary Quotations in Medical Texts, Medical Humanism, Storia della Filosofia, Teoria Crítica, Melancholia Studies, Melancholie, Storia della medicina, History of Melancoly, History of Philosophy, History of Melancholy, Melancholy In Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Melanconia, Malinconia, Malinconia. Storia, and Psicologia
Research Interests: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, History of Ideas, Aristotle, and 19 moreHistory of Biology (History), History of Science, History and Philosophy of Biology, Evolution, History of Biology, Teleology, Darwin, Aristotle's philosophy of biology, Filosofía, Aristoteles, Stephen Jay Gould, History and Philosophy of Biology,Evolution - Theory and, Aristotelismo, History of Evolutionary Biology, Biología de Aristóteles, History of Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Biology and Ecology, History of Biological Sciences, and History of Biology and Evolutionary Theory
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"""The paper is devoted to develop a connection between the Sozialphilosophie of Axel Honneth and Plato’s Republic. The main point is that Honneth’s research of a non formal theory of justice, connected with the idea of good life or... more
"""The paper is devoted to develop a connection between the
Sozialphilosophie of Axel Honneth and Plato’s Republic. The main point is that Honneth’s research of a non formal theory of justice, connected with the idea of good life or eudaimonia, which permits a diagnosis of social pathologies, finds fecund confluences in the Plato’s doctrine."""
Sozialphilosophie of Axel Honneth and Plato’s Republic. The main point is that Honneth’s research of a non formal theory of justice, connected with the idea of good life or eudaimonia, which permits a diagnosis of social pathologies, finds fecund confluences in the Plato’s doctrine."""
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Classics, Plato, and 10 moreSocial Philosophy, Political Science, Honneth, Ancient Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Modern Political Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, history of ancient Greek philosophy, and History of Philosophy
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Continental Philosophy, Socratic Method, and 11 moreSigmund Freud, Socrates, Ancient Philosophy, Socratic Teaching & Learning, History of Freudianism, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Psychoanalytic Theory, Socrate, Socratic dialogue, Socratic Questioning, and History of Philosophy
"""The essay concerns the reconstruction of the repression of desires, with reference to the analysis of their oneiric emersions expounded in the Republic, in comparison with Freud’s conception. Plato’s concept of suppression according to... more
"""The essay concerns the reconstruction of the repression of desires, with reference to the analysis of their oneiric emersions expounded in the Republic, in comparison with Freud’s conception. Plato’s concept of suppression according to which specific desires are enslaved, so that they can find satisfaction usually only in dreams seems consistent with Freud’s concept of remotion; therefore both the condition of the suppressed desires and the intrapsychic place of their enslavement seem to be interpretable in the light of Freud’s concept of the unconscious.
Das Thema des vorliegenden Beitrags ist die Rekonstruktion der Repression von Wünschen in Bezug auf die Analyse ihres Auftauchens im Traum, wie sie in der Politeia ausgeführt wird, im Vergleich mit der Konzeption bei Freud. Die besondere Form von Platonischer Unterdrückung – durch die bestimmte Wünsche in Sklaverei gehalten werden, so dass sie ihre Befriedigung normalerweise nur im Traum erreichen -, scheint mit dem Freudschen Konzept der Verdrängung vereinbar, insofern sowohl der Zustand der unterdrückten Wünsche als auch der intrapsychische Ort ihrer Versklavung unter Anwendung von Freuds Konzept des Unbewussten deutbar ist."""
Das Thema des vorliegenden Beitrags ist die Rekonstruktion der Repression von Wünschen in Bezug auf die Analyse ihres Auftauchens im Traum, wie sie in der Politeia ausgeführt wird, im Vergleich mit der Konzeption bei Freud. Die besondere Form von Platonischer Unterdrückung – durch die bestimmte Wünsche in Sklaverei gehalten werden, so dass sie ihre Befriedigung normalerweise nur im Traum erreichen -, scheint mit dem Freudschen Konzept der Verdrängung vereinbar, insofern sowohl der Zustand der unterdrückten Wünsche als auch der intrapsychische Ort ihrer Versklavung unter Anwendung von Freuds Konzept des Unbewussten deutbar ist."""
Research Interests: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Classics, Moral Psychology, and 67 moreHistory of Ideas, Plato, History of Medicine, History Of Psychoanalysis, History Of Emotions, History of Psychiatry, Psychology of Unconscious, Myths and Symbols as carriers of unconscious content, Sigmund Freud, Psychopathology, Desire, History Of Madness And Psychiatry, History Of Psychology, Dreams (History), Visions And Dreams, Ancient Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, History of Moral Philosophy, Plato and Platonism, Moral emotions, Dreams (Psychology), Ancient Greek Philosophy, Dreams, Unconscious cognition, Psychoanalytic Theory, Sigmund Freud (Psychology), Eros, Unconscious Mind, Philosophie, Moral, Filosofía, Dream analysis, Psicología, Sleep and Dreaming, Psychologie, Unconscious, History of Dreams, Platon, Antike Philosophie, Philosophie et psychanalyse, Plato's Republic, Psychoanalyse, Platone, Histoire de la philosophie, Dream Interpretation, Platón, Republic (Plato), Dreams in Antiquity, Psychanalyse et philosophie, Psychology of Sleep and Dreaming, Unconscious Processes, Storia della Filosofia, Freud and Unconscious Mental Processes, History of dreaming/dreams, Philosophie, Psychiatrie, Santé Mentale, Plato Republic Justice, Psychodynamic unconscious, Unconscious Thought Theory, History of Philosophy, Storia della filosofia antica, Sexual Desire, Dream Interpretation (Ta'Bir), Sublimation Method, Theries of Desire, Geschichte der Philosophie, Psychoanalytische Traumdeutung, and Freud
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"Der Aufsatz zielt darauf, der Prozess der historischen Überlagerung, Substitution und Verbreitung des theoretischen Paradigmas der Depression gegenüber jenem der Melancholie darzustellen. Im ersten Teil wird versucht, einige der... more
"Der Aufsatz zielt darauf, der Prozess der historischen Überlagerung, Substitution und Verbreitung des theoretischen Paradigmas der Depression gegenüber jenem der Melancholie darzustellen. Im ersten Teil wird versucht, einige der einschneidenden Eigenschaften der Thematisierungen der Melancholie in der Frühen Neuzeit anzugeben, auch im Verhältnis zum Geist des Kapitalismus. Nachdem eine Skizze der Entstehung der moderne Kategorie der Depression, geht es darum, den Verlauf nachzuzeichnen, der im 20. Jahrhundert zu ihrer Transformation in ein weitläufiges theoretisches Paradigma geführt hat, das schließlich jenes der Melancholie ersetzt hat. Der zweite Teil stellt den Versuch dar, eine Zeitdiagnose umzureißen: An dieser Stelle ist die psychosoziale Bedeutung bestimmter sozioökonomischer und kultureller Mechanismen zu untersuchen, unter besonderem Hinweis auf das, was als »der neue Geist des Kapitalismus« bezeichnet worden ist, sowie auf neue Formen des Individualismus und ihre paradoxen Dynamiken. Abschließend wird eine Brücke geschlagen, zwischen der Geschichte der beiden bezeichneten Paradigmen und der zeitgenössischen psychosozialen Dynamiken, die mit dem als »depressive Epidemie« interpretierten Phänomen verbunden sind.
The essay aims to analyse the gradual historical process of the partial overlap, replacement and expansion of the theoretical paradigm of depression with respect to that of melancholy. The first part is devoted to analysing some of the central features of the multivalent thematizations of melancholy drawn up during modernity, also with relation to the spirit of capitalism (in its Weberian acceptation). This is followed by an overview of the birth of the modern category of depression, and the process that during the twentieth century led to its transformation into a theoretical and nosological paradigm which in the end replaced that of melancholy. The second part is the attempt to draw up a Zeitdiagnose: the aim is to assess the ‘depressive’ psychosocial impact exercised by particular socio-economic mechanisms and cultural trends, with particular reference to what has been defined as the ‘new spirit of capitalism’, as well as the new forms of individualism and their paradoxical dynamics. In conclusion, I will form a bridge between the history of the two aforesaid paradigms and the contemporary psychosocial dynamics correlated to the phenomenon today interpreted as a ‘depression epidemic’."
The essay aims to analyse the gradual historical process of the partial overlap, replacement and expansion of the theoretical paradigm of depression with respect to that of melancholy. The first part is devoted to analysing some of the central features of the multivalent thematizations of melancholy drawn up during modernity, also with relation to the spirit of capitalism (in its Weberian acceptation). This is followed by an overview of the birth of the modern category of depression, and the process that during the twentieth century led to its transformation into a theoretical and nosological paradigm which in the end replaced that of melancholy. The second part is the attempt to draw up a Zeitdiagnose: the aim is to assess the ‘depressive’ psychosocial impact exercised by particular socio-economic mechanisms and cultural trends, with particular reference to what has been defined as the ‘new spirit of capitalism’, as well as the new forms of individualism and their paradoxical dynamics. In conclusion, I will form a bridge between the history of the two aforesaid paradigms and the contemporary psychosocial dynamics correlated to the phenomenon today interpreted as a ‘depression epidemic’."
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and 23 moreHistory of Ideas, History of Medicine, Social Philosophy, Depression, History of Science, History of Psychiatry, History of Capitalism, Melancholy, Capitalism, Great Depression, History Of Madness And Psychiatry, History Of Psychology, Social and Political Philosophy, Melancholia (Art), Depression (Psychology), Melancholy Studies, Mourning and melancholia, History of Madness & Psychiatry, Depression and Melancholy, Melancholia Studies, History of Philosophy, History of Melancholy, and History of Psychology and Psychiatry
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Research Interests: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Social Psychology, Emotion, Philosophy, and 53 morePolitical Philosophy, Ethics, Classics, Moral Psychology, Plato, Social Philosophy, History Of Psychoanalysis, Political Science, History Of Emotions, Sigmund Freud, Psychopathology, Desire, History Of Madness And Psychiatry, History Of Psychology, Ancient Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Plato's Virtue Ethics, Plato and Platonism, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Eros, Filosofía Política, Política, Philosophie, Madness in the ancient world, Filosofía, Politische Philosophie, Psicología, Philosophie politique, Psychologie, Ética, Madness, Ética (Filosofia), Sublimation, Platon, Philosophie et psychanalyse, Plato's Republic, Platone, Histoire de la philosophie, Platón, Republic (Plato), Etica, Philosophy of Desire, Storia della Filosofia, Plato Republic Justice, History of Philosophy, Storia della filosofia antica, Sexual Desire, Phenomenology of Desire, Follia, Platonismo, Sublimation Method, Socio Political Philosophy, and Theries of Desire
Research Interests: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Classics, History of Ideas, and 40 morePlato, History Of Psychoanalysis, History Of Platonic Tradition, History Of Emotions, Sigmund Freud, Desire, History Of Psychology, Ancient Philosophy, History of Freudianism, Plato and Platonism, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Psychoanalytic Theory, Sigmund Freud (Psychology), Eros, Filosofía, Psicología, Psychologie, Psicoanálisis, história da Filosofia, Platon, Psicoanalisis, Psychoanalisis, História da Psicologia, Platone, Platón, Psicoanalisi, Storia della Filosofia, Psicoanálisis Y Filosofía, History of Philosophy, Storia della filosofia antica, Sexual Desire, Historia y epistemologíia del psicoanálisis, Filosofia Antica, Storia della psicologia, Freudian Psychoanalysis, Sublimation Method, Geschichte der Philosophie, Psicologia, Storia Filosofia Antica, and Storia Della Psicoanalisi
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Research Interests: Critical Theory, Sociology, Social Theory, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and 32 moreSocial Philosophy, Critical Social Theory, Social Justice, Recognition, Politics of Recognition, Contemporary Social Theory, Axel Honneth, Filosofía Política, Filosofía social, Filosofía Politica, Filosofía, Sociologia, Teoria politica, filosofia, Teoría Crítica, Teoria Politica Y Filosofia, Justicia, reconocimiento, teoría crítica, Social Conflict, Teoría social, Riconoscimento, Teoria Crítica Social, Filosofia Social e Politica, Classical and Contemporary Social Theory, Filosofia Politica, Filosofia Sociale, Teoria Sociológica, Filosofia Política, Teoria Política E Filosofia, Teoria Crítica, Autorità, Potere, Riconoscimento, Filosofia Politica Contemporanea, Teoria Critica, Contemporary Social Theories, and Scuola Di Francoforte
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Sociology, Social Theory, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and 11 moreFrankfurt School (Philosophy), Political Science, Jurgen Habermas, Frankfurt School, Habermas, Jürgen Habermas, Teoría Crítica, Habermas and the Public Sphere, History of Philosophy, Teoria Critica, and Scuola Di Francoforte
Research Interests: Sociology, Social Theory, Welfare Economics, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and 32 moreCultural Sociology, Social Sciences, Social Philosophy, Welfare State, Political Science, Critical Social Theory, Social Capital, Social Justice, Culture, History of Capitalism, Capitalism, Labour Studies, Work and Labour, Labour Economics, History of Social Welfare, Globalisation and the labour market, Cultures of Capital and Capitalism, Public Policy - Social Welfare Policy, Varieties of Capitalism, Social Welfare, Labour market policy, Labour, Global Capitalism, Labour markets, Labour Market, Critical Social Research, Critical Theory of Capitalism, Social Conflict, Labour Market Dynamics, Capitalism, Economic crises, Western social values, Employment/Labour Law, and Contemporary Capitalism
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Research Interests: Philosophy, Classics, Philosophy of Science, Marxism, Plato, and 32 moreAristotle, History of Science, History Of Platonic Tradition, Galen, Michel Foucault, Ancient Philosophy, Hippocratic Corpus, Plato and Platonism, Aristotle's Commentators, Ancient Greek ethics, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotle's Ethics, Ancient Greek, Aristotle's Politics, Hippocrates, Filosofía, Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Plato's Republic, Aristotele, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Platone, Platón, Storia della Filosofia, Plato Republic Justice, Storia della medicina, Hipocratic and Galenic Medicine, History of Philosophy, Storia della filosofia antica, Storia Della Scienza, Platone E Aristotele, La etica de Aristoteles, and Hippocrates and Hippocratism
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Il seminario mira a offrire una panoramica delle diverse forme dei processi regressivi contemporanei sul piano politico, etico e sociale, con particolare riguardo per la molteplicità dei nuovi populismi, anche in termini di anatomia... more
Il seminario mira a offrire una panoramica delle diverse forme dei processi regressivi contemporanei sul piano politico, etico e sociale, con particolare riguardo per la molteplicità dei nuovi populismi, anche in termini di anatomia politica comparata. Si cercherà di indagare talune delle principali cause degli attuali processi regressivi, di ricostruirne la genealogia, di valutare il portato dei diversi elementi di natura politica, economica e di psicologia politica. Questo lavoro di chiarificazione analitica e teorica mira nel contempo a coadiuvare l'individuazione di possibili strategie atte a inibire, e finanche a rovesciare, alcune delle principali dinamiche regressive in atto.
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Il paper muove da un’esigenza metodologica: è volto a testare la tenuta di un modello teorico che attribuisca un ruolo determinante alla contingenza nel quadro dell’analisi dei processi di formazione storica dei sistemi di potere, e del... more
Il paper muove da un’esigenza metodologica: è volto a testare la tenuta di un modello teorico che
attribuisca un ruolo determinante alla contingenza nel quadro dell’analisi dei processi di formazione
storica dei sistemi di potere, e del versante speculare della disamina delle lotte per l’ampliamento
delle libertà, anche rispetto alle ricadute sull’articolazione di forme di critica sociale emancipatorie.
Si tratta di vagliare le conseguenze sul piano della ricostruzione delle costellazioni normative
storiche – nel doppio senso dei criteri egemonici di giustificazione di specifiche forme di
assoggettamento, e dei principi su cui fanno leva le lotte di emancipazione da queste medesime
forme – di una impostazione che valorizzi la dimensione della contingenza, nel senso della apertura
e non pre-‐determinabilità delle (molteplici ed eterogenee) cause storiche rinvenibili di volta in volta.
Valorizzando la contingenza sul doppio fronte della sempre temporanea cristallizzazione dei
meccanismi di potere e dei processi di emersione di pratiche e ideologie di resistenza contro i modi
specifici di dominio e assoggettamento che discendono dai primi, viene a stagliarsi una concezione
del progresso normativo, inteso anzitutto quale estensione della sfera delle libertà individuali e
collettive, che è a sua volta radicalmente alternativa alle impostazioni teleologiche tradizionali. Si
farà riferimento al taglio teleologico della tradizione filosofico-‐politica hegelo-‐marxiana, rilanciato
recentemente da Axel Honneth nel quadro della svolta neo-‐hegeliana della teoria critica tedesca,
che pure aveva tracciato anche strade alternative. La valorizzazione della contingenza mette inoltre
in crisi forme di teleologia della storia legate a visioni dell’‘evoluzione’ della razionalità e/o della
specie umana che fanno leva su interpretazioni dell’eredità darwiniana unilaterali. In tal senso ci si
richiamerà alla contrapposizione foucaultiana, seppur per certi versi ambivalente rispetto alla storia
del pensiero biologico, tra genealogia e teleologia.
La chiave principale per mostrare talune gravi difficoltà in cui incorrono i modelli teleologici del
progresso normativo rispetto alla dialettica potere/libertà sarà tuttavia fornita dal concetto di
‘regressioni’: ci si soffermerà in particolare sul ruolo e le forme dei processi regressivi di taglio
politico, economico e psicosociali forniti in modo persino fin troppo limpido dall’impatto
dell’ordinamento neoliberista nel mondo occidentale nel corso degli ultimi decenni. Sarà questa
analisi delle “spirali regressive” contemporanee a offrire il terreno per iniziare a ‘testare’ sul piano
dell’analisi storica, sociale e politica la tenuta del framework teoretico proposto.
attribuisca un ruolo determinante alla contingenza nel quadro dell’analisi dei processi di formazione
storica dei sistemi di potere, e del versante speculare della disamina delle lotte per l’ampliamento
delle libertà, anche rispetto alle ricadute sull’articolazione di forme di critica sociale emancipatorie.
Si tratta di vagliare le conseguenze sul piano della ricostruzione delle costellazioni normative
storiche – nel doppio senso dei criteri egemonici di giustificazione di specifiche forme di
assoggettamento, e dei principi su cui fanno leva le lotte di emancipazione da queste medesime
forme – di una impostazione che valorizzi la dimensione della contingenza, nel senso della apertura
e non pre-‐determinabilità delle (molteplici ed eterogenee) cause storiche rinvenibili di volta in volta.
Valorizzando la contingenza sul doppio fronte della sempre temporanea cristallizzazione dei
meccanismi di potere e dei processi di emersione di pratiche e ideologie di resistenza contro i modi
specifici di dominio e assoggettamento che discendono dai primi, viene a stagliarsi una concezione
del progresso normativo, inteso anzitutto quale estensione della sfera delle libertà individuali e
collettive, che è a sua volta radicalmente alternativa alle impostazioni teleologiche tradizionali. Si
farà riferimento al taglio teleologico della tradizione filosofico-‐politica hegelo-‐marxiana, rilanciato
recentemente da Axel Honneth nel quadro della svolta neo-‐hegeliana della teoria critica tedesca,
che pure aveva tracciato anche strade alternative. La valorizzazione della contingenza mette inoltre
in crisi forme di teleologia della storia legate a visioni dell’‘evoluzione’ della razionalità e/o della
specie umana che fanno leva su interpretazioni dell’eredità darwiniana unilaterali. In tal senso ci si
richiamerà alla contrapposizione foucaultiana, seppur per certi versi ambivalente rispetto alla storia
del pensiero biologico, tra genealogia e teleologia.
La chiave principale per mostrare talune gravi difficoltà in cui incorrono i modelli teleologici del
progresso normativo rispetto alla dialettica potere/libertà sarà tuttavia fornita dal concetto di
‘regressioni’: ci si soffermerà in particolare sul ruolo e le forme dei processi regressivi di taglio
politico, economico e psicosociali forniti in modo persino fin troppo limpido dall’impatto
dell’ordinamento neoliberista nel mondo occidentale nel corso degli ultimi decenni. Sarà questa
analisi delle “spirali regressive” contemporanee a offrire il terreno per iniziare a ‘testare’ sul piano
dell’analisi storica, sociale e politica la tenuta del framework teoretico proposto.
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L’analisi del rischio a cui è dedicato questo panel – la trasformazione della politologia in una sorta di ‘scienza del presente’ incapace di incidere positivamente sulla realtà – credo possa giovarsi anche del confronto con la metodologia... more
L’analisi del rischio a cui è dedicato questo panel – la trasformazione della politologia in una sorta di ‘scienza del presente’ incapace di incidere positivamente sulla realtà – credo possa giovarsi anche del confronto con la metodologia adottata nell’ambito della filosofia sociale e politica contemporanea che si ispira alla tradizione della teoria critica tedesca.
Penso in particolare a quelle impostazioni che insistono sulla rilevanza di un tipo di normatività che non sia quella ormai classica di John Rawls, considerata troppo astratta, né dell’orientamento formale-proceduralista sviluppato da Jürgen Habermas. Piuttosto, sulla scorta dei contributi di autori di diversa estrazione disciplinare quali Michael Walzer, Axel Honneth e Luc Boltanski – fino ad ora soltanto parzialmente recepiti in Italia – si insiste su più fronti su una normatività “interna”, “incarnata” o “immanente”: i cui criteri siano perlomeno in parte già adottati nei costumi, nelle pratiche; diciamo nella sfera della Sittlichkeit. L’obiettivo teorico prioritario di questo approccio, quindi, non è tanto di “fondare”, né tantomeno di “costruire” le forme della normatività, quanto piuttosto di reinterpretare, riattivare, e sviluppare in chiave emancipatoria gli elementi normativi già presenti nel contesto socio-politico dato di volta in volta.
Delineati i presupposti teorici generali di questo tipo di normatività immanente, nel paper declinerò poi il tema dal punto di vista della problematizzazione del ruolo dell’intellettuale, o del critico sociale, e più in generale dell’attività critica. Da questa prospettiva, uno degli elementi salienti che viene a co-determinare l’auspicata incisività dell’attività critica è infatti la sua correlazione con le forme del politico: nella tematizzazione dei criteri normativi storicamente dati non si può astrarre dai conflitti che rispecchiano gli interessi contrapposti di volta in volta in gioco, poiché si riflettono più o meno direttamente anche sul piano della interpretazione dei principi e delle norme date.
Procedendo in questa direzione, la “contaminazione” tra teoria politica e filosofia politica auspicata in questo panel credo si riveli feconda su entrambi i fronti: mentre l’analisi filosofico-sociale viene ad ampliarsi alla dimensione più strettamente politica inerente ai conflitti normativi in gioco, la teoria politica può riferirsi a una forma di normatività che anziché procedere in modo astratto e procedurale muove dall’immanenza dei criteri dati di volta in volta.
Penso in particolare a quelle impostazioni che insistono sulla rilevanza di un tipo di normatività che non sia quella ormai classica di John Rawls, considerata troppo astratta, né dell’orientamento formale-proceduralista sviluppato da Jürgen Habermas. Piuttosto, sulla scorta dei contributi di autori di diversa estrazione disciplinare quali Michael Walzer, Axel Honneth e Luc Boltanski – fino ad ora soltanto parzialmente recepiti in Italia – si insiste su più fronti su una normatività “interna”, “incarnata” o “immanente”: i cui criteri siano perlomeno in parte già adottati nei costumi, nelle pratiche; diciamo nella sfera della Sittlichkeit. L’obiettivo teorico prioritario di questo approccio, quindi, non è tanto di “fondare”, né tantomeno di “costruire” le forme della normatività, quanto piuttosto di reinterpretare, riattivare, e sviluppare in chiave emancipatoria gli elementi normativi già presenti nel contesto socio-politico dato di volta in volta.
Delineati i presupposti teorici generali di questo tipo di normatività immanente, nel paper declinerò poi il tema dal punto di vista della problematizzazione del ruolo dell’intellettuale, o del critico sociale, e più in generale dell’attività critica. Da questa prospettiva, uno degli elementi salienti che viene a co-determinare l’auspicata incisività dell’attività critica è infatti la sua correlazione con le forme del politico: nella tematizzazione dei criteri normativi storicamente dati non si può astrarre dai conflitti che rispecchiano gli interessi contrapposti di volta in volta in gioco, poiché si riflettono più o meno direttamente anche sul piano della interpretazione dei principi e delle norme date.
Procedendo in questa direzione, la “contaminazione” tra teoria politica e filosofia politica auspicata in questo panel credo si riveli feconda su entrambi i fronti: mentre l’analisi filosofico-sociale viene ad ampliarsi alla dimensione più strettamente politica inerente ai conflitti normativi in gioco, la teoria politica può riferirsi a una forma di normatività che anziché procedere in modo astratto e procedurale muove dall’immanenza dei criteri dati di volta in volta.
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Marco Solinas, whose book From Aristotle’s teleology to Darwin’s genealogy is published by Palgrave Macmillan, outlines the basic steps from the birth, establishment and later rebirth of the traditional view of living beings, and its... more
Marco Solinas, whose book From Aristotle’s teleology to Darwin’s genealogy is published by Palgrave Macmillan, outlines the basic steps from the birth, establishment and later rebirth of the traditional view of living beings, and its overturning by Darwin’s evolutionary revolution. The classic framework devised by Aristotle was still dominant in the 17th-century world of Galileo and Harvey, and remained hegemonic until the time of Lamarck and Cuvier in the 19th century. Contributions to the discussion will be made by Prof Walter Leszl and Prof Alessandro Becchi.
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The paper is dedicated to analyse the relationship between the conception of dreaming expounded by Plato in The Republic ant Freud’s dream theory. I will analyze this relationship on two main levels. The first level concerns the Platonic... more
The paper is dedicated to analyse the relationship between the conception of dreaming expounded by Plato in The Republic ant Freud’s dream theory. I will analyze this relationship on two main levels. The first level concerns the Platonic conception of the oneiric emergence of repressed desires. This is a conception that prefigures the main path of Freud’s subconscious, that is: “the via regia to the unconscious”. Furthermore, I’ll analyse the psychopathologies related to these theories of dream. The second level concerns the analysis of bibliographic sources used by Freud fist of all in The Interpretation of Dreams, and of his interests. This is an analysis that, in my opinion, allows us to make the hypotheses that Freud not only omitted the acknowledgment of Plato’s theoretical genealogy of the via regia to the unconscious, but also the possibility that The Republic constituted a tacit source of inspiration for the composition of The Interpretations of Dreams.
Research Interests: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, Philosophy, Classics, and 17 morePlato, History Of Psychoanalysis, History of Science, History Of Platonic Tradition, Continental Philosophy, History of Psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, History Of Madness And Psychiatry, History Of Psychology, Ancient Philosophy, Dreams (Psychology), Ancient Greek Philosophy, Dreams, Plato's Republic, Platón, Republic (Plato), and History of Philosophy
La lezione è dedicata a disegnare una breve panoramica sulla parabola che dalla costruzione ed ascesa dello spazio psichiatrico per eccellenza, il manicomio, giunge alla sua pressoché totale distruzione. Quanto alla nascita della nuova... more
La lezione è dedicata a disegnare una breve panoramica sulla parabola che dalla costruzione ed ascesa dello spazio psichiatrico per eccellenza, il manicomio, giunge alla sua pressoché totale distruzione. Quanto alla nascita della nuova realtà istituzionale, l’attenzione viene concentrata sul del grande asilo parigino della Salpêtrière, e sulle riforme epocali avviate da Philippe Pinel tra la fine del XVIII secolo e l’inizio del XIX, e proseguite poi da Jean-Étienne D. Esquirol; processi che hanno nel contempo sancito la nascita della stessa disciplina psichiatrica. Tracciati tali lineamenti, si salta poi alla seconda metà del Novecento, per schizzare il profilo del processo di critica e infine di radicale distruzione di questi medesimi spazi. Qui il fuoco dell’analisi è incentrato sul movimento guidato da Franco Basaglia.
Nella lettura di tale parabola, l’accento è posto sulla centralità giocata dalla dimensione spaziale nella concettualizzazione della scienza psichiatrica e, più in generale, sulla rilevanza di tale dimensione sul piano più strettamente epistemologico. Sempre proseguendo su questa linea, si propone una lettura alternativa sia alle interpretazioni delle funzioni e delle forme della psichiatria classica elaborate sulla via dischiusa a suo tempo da Michel Foucault, sia rispetto alle critiche ormai altrettanto tradizionali ed unilaterali che tale framework ha ricevuto soprattutto nell’ultimo decennio. Di contro, si insisterà sulle tensioni, sui problemi e sulle intrinseche contraddizioni che la suddetta parabola viene ad aprire sul doppio versante epistemologico e filosofico-sociale.
Nella lettura di tale parabola, l’accento è posto sulla centralità giocata dalla dimensione spaziale nella concettualizzazione della scienza psichiatrica e, più in generale, sulla rilevanza di tale dimensione sul piano più strettamente epistemologico. Sempre proseguendo su questa linea, si propone una lettura alternativa sia alle interpretazioni delle funzioni e delle forme della psichiatria classica elaborate sulla via dischiusa a suo tempo da Michel Foucault, sia rispetto alle critiche ormai altrettanto tradizionali ed unilaterali che tale framework ha ricevuto soprattutto nell’ultimo decennio. Di contro, si insisterà sulle tensioni, sui problemi e sulle intrinseche contraddizioni che la suddetta parabola viene ad aprire sul doppio versante epistemologico e filosofico-sociale.
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Der Vortrag geht von Axel Honneths These aus, wonach die motivationale Basis der Kämpfe um Anerkennung aus Missachtungserfahrungen besteht, sowie ferner von der Tatsache, dass dieselben Erfahrungen andererseits auch zu einer rein... more
Der Vortrag geht von Axel Honneths These aus, wonach die motivationale Basis der Kämpfe um Anerkennung aus Missachtungserfahrungen besteht, sowie ferner von der Tatsache, dass dieselben Erfahrungen andererseits auch zu einer rein negativen, oder gar regressiven und im weiteren Sinne depressiven Bedingung führen können. Denn in bestimmten Fällen kann das aus der Kränkung entstandene Leid das Subjekt in der gegebenen Situation lähmen, und damit die ihr immanenten emanzipatorischen Potenziale vernichten, selbst wenn es gerechtfertigte Maßstäbe gibt, die betreffenden Kränkungen als Formen der Ungerechtigkeit anzusehen. Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Dialektik moralischen Leids, aufgrund der die Reaktionen der Subjekte zu Umstellungen und Umwandlungen des Triebmaterials fähig sind, der bislang allerdings keine besondere Aufmerksamkeit zuteil wurde; diese soll nun entlang zweier grundlegender Untersuchungslinien erläutert werden. Die erste geht auf die theoretischen Grundlagen hinsichtlich der Missachtungserfahrungen und der Kämpfe um Anerkennung ein, sowie auf die Vertiefung der betreffenden psychologischen Dynamiken, insbesondere auch unter Bezugnahme auf das freudsche Triebmodell. Die zweite zielt auf die Übertragung der genannten Grundzüge auf die Ebene der Geschichtsphilosophie, und vor allem der Kritik am Erbe der hegelschen Teleologie, das im honnetschen fortschreitenden geschichtlichen Entwicklungsmodell teilweise erneuert wird, etwa durch die Wiederaufnahme der von Walter Benjamin skizzierten Korrelation von Geschichtsphilosophie, Leid und Ungerechtigkeit.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and 15 moreSocial Sciences, Political Theory, Frankfurt School (Philosophy), Political Science, Critical Social Theory, Continental Philosophy, Walter Benjamin, Moral Philosophy, Frankfurt School, Axel Honneth, Philosophie, Kritische Theorie, kritische Psychologie, History of Philosophy, and Critical Theory/Frankfurt School
Numerous excellent works have been written on the formation process of ‘psychiatry’ and its concomitant impact on society and culture at the end of the eighteenth century and in the first three decades of the nineteenth century, in... more
Numerous excellent works have been written on the formation process of ‘psychiatry’ and its concomitant impact on society and culture at the end of the eighteenth century and in the first three decades of the nineteenth century, in particular with regard to France. From Gladys Swain to Dora Weiner, from Jacques Postel to Jan Goldstein, from Jackie Pigeaud to Juan Rigoli, the issue has been analysed in depth and from a variety of different perspectives. However, despite constantly and inevitably resurfacing in these studies, no particular attention has been paid to the passions and emotions drawn up by nascent psychiatry. Here, a truly epoch-making caesura can be found in terms of the social concepts and representations, and the correlated modes of behaviour, of the passions and emotions of Western civilisation.
Indeed, since ancient times the passions have also been interpreted as ‘diseases of the soul.’ Yet, it was only within the birth of the new science of mental illnesses, a process which gave rise to ‘experimental medicine’, that a far-reaching medical-therapeutic framework emerged. It was in this context that a strict theoretical and therapeutic programme was launched, which aimed at the systematic medicalization of all the human passions and emotions, and proposed, at the same time, their treatment in a vast body of public and private institutions, specifically set up for the purpose. In the words used by the psychiatrist Philippe Pinel, it was a programme which aimed to create a ‘histoire médicale des passions’ and a series of broad and profound institutional (and political) reforms to face up to the literal ‘dangerosité’ to mental health ascribed to the passions: reforms that would gradually transform the manners of housing and treating the mentally ill, commencing with those from the middle and upper classes, who were offered a whole new array of private care facilities.
In other words, it is only with its birth and increasingly wide diffusion in the new public hospitals and private care homes for the mentally ill that a ‘medical-philosophical’ framework became established, and began to exert a great influence on the traditional ways of representing and interpreting the passions and the canonically correlated modes of behaviour. Thus, a variety of figures gradually came to be transformed: suffice it to think of the melancholic poet, the impassioned lover, the fanatic rebel, and their transfigurations and transpositions in literature and theatre. Hence, what changed was both the day-to-day life of the committed mental patients, and how mental illness was perceived and interpreted in society, both in itself and in relation to the sphere of the passions. In short, and this is the first objective that this paper aims to demonstrate, we are dealing with the origins of the very process of medicalisation and true pathologisation of the emotions, many consequences of which are still with us today.
In order to achieve the objectives described above, the paper is eminently interdisciplinary. By using the current debate on the history of the emotions, it aims to explore further the late-eighteenth-century ‘psychiatric revolution’ and some of its main consequences on the history of emotions. In short, the task is to outline the extraordinary cultural and social impact that the development of the new public and private hospital institutions had on the traditional ways of interpreting, decoding, representing and experiencing a wide spectrum of emotions.
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Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges, Les Rapports du physique et du morale de l’homme, Paris: Crapart, Caille et Ravier, 1802, 2 voll.
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de, Traité des sensation, à Madame la comtesse de Vassé, Londres [i.e. Paris], 1754; Dt. Übs von J. M. Weissiger, Abhandlung über die Empfindungen, Wien, 1792.
Crichton, Alexander, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Origin of Mental Derangement: Comprehending a Concise System of the Physiology and Pathology of the Human Mind. And a History of the Passions and Their Effects, London: Cadell, Junior and Davies, 1798, 2 voll.
Dixon, Thomas, From Passions to Emotions. The creation of a Secular Psychological Category, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Esquirol, Des passions considérées comme causes, symptômes, et moyens curatifs de l’aliénation mentale, Paris: Didot Jeune, 1805; nouvelle édition par Gladys Swain et Marcel Gauchet, Paris: Libraire des Deux Mondes, 1980.
– Allgemeine und spezielle Pathologie und Therapie der Seelenstörungen, frei bearbeitet von Dr. Karl Christian Hille, nebst einem Anhange kritischer und erläuternder Zusätze von Dr. J. C. A. Heinroth, Lepzig: Hartmann, 1827.
Frevert, Ute, Emotions in History: Lost and Found, Budapest – New York: Central European Univ., 2011.
Gauchet, Marcel et Swain, Gladys, La Pratique de l’esprit humain: l’institution asilaire et la révolution démocratique, Paris: Gallimard, 1980; II ed. Paris, 2007.
Goldstein, Jan, Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century, Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1987; II ed. with a New Afterword 2001.
Pigeaud, Jackie, Aux Portes de la Psychiatrie: Pinel, l'Ancien et le Moderne, Paris: Aubier, 2001.
Pinel, Philippe, Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale, ou la manie, Paris: Richard, 1800; Dt. Übs: Philosophisch – medizinische Abhandlung über Geistesverirrungen oder Manie, aus dem Frz. Übs. von Michael Wagner, Wien: Schaumburg, 1801; II édition: Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale. Second édition, entièrement refondue et très-augmentée, Paris: Brosson, 1809.
– La médecine clinique rendue plus précise et plus exacte par l'application de l'analyse, ou Recueil et résultat d'observations sur les maladies aiguës, faites à la Salpêtrière, Paris: Gabon et Cie 1802; Dt. Übs von G. F. Krauss, Praktische Heilkunde zu einem höheren Grade von Vollständigkeit und Genauigkeit erhoben durch die Anwendung der analytischen Methode, Bayreuth: Andreas Lübeck 1803. II édition: Paris, 1804; III édition: Paris, 1815.
Postel, Jacques, Genèse de la psychiatrie: les premiers écrits de Philippe Pinel, Paris: Le Sycomore, 1981; zweite Auflage: Le Plessis-Robinson: Synthélabo 1998.
Reil, Johann Christian, Fieberhafte Nervenkrankheiten, in Ueber die Erkentniß und Cur der Fieber, Bd. 4, Halle: Curt, 1802.
– Rhapsodieen über die Anwendung der psychischen Kurmethode auf Geisteszerrüttungen, Halle: Curt, 1803 (zweite Auflage: Halle 1818).
Rigoli, Juan, Lire le délire. Aliénisme, rhétorique et littérature en France au XIXe siècle, Paris: Fayard, 2001.
Schrenk, Martin, Über den Umgang mit Geisteskranken. Die Entwicklung der psychiatrischen Therapie vom “moralischen Régime” in England und Frankreich zu den “psychischen Curmethoden” in Deutschland, Berlin: Springer, 1973.
Smith, Adam, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Millar, 1759, VI ed. 1790.
Swain, Gladys, Le sujet de la folie : naissance de la psychiatrie, Toulouse: Privat, 1977, second édition précédé de "de Pinel à Freud" par Marcel Gauchet: Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1997.
Wallace, Edwin R. and Gach, John (ed.), History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, New York: Springer, 2008.
Weiner, Dora B., Comprendre et Soigner : Philippe Pinel, 1745-1826 : La Médecine de l'Esprit, Paris: Fayard. 1999.
Indeed, since ancient times the passions have also been interpreted as ‘diseases of the soul.’ Yet, it was only within the birth of the new science of mental illnesses, a process which gave rise to ‘experimental medicine’, that a far-reaching medical-therapeutic framework emerged. It was in this context that a strict theoretical and therapeutic programme was launched, which aimed at the systematic medicalization of all the human passions and emotions, and proposed, at the same time, their treatment in a vast body of public and private institutions, specifically set up for the purpose. In the words used by the psychiatrist Philippe Pinel, it was a programme which aimed to create a ‘histoire médicale des passions’ and a series of broad and profound institutional (and political) reforms to face up to the literal ‘dangerosité’ to mental health ascribed to the passions: reforms that would gradually transform the manners of housing and treating the mentally ill, commencing with those from the middle and upper classes, who were offered a whole new array of private care facilities.
In other words, it is only with its birth and increasingly wide diffusion in the new public hospitals and private care homes for the mentally ill that a ‘medical-philosophical’ framework became established, and began to exert a great influence on the traditional ways of representing and interpreting the passions and the canonically correlated modes of behaviour. Thus, a variety of figures gradually came to be transformed: suffice it to think of the melancholic poet, the impassioned lover, the fanatic rebel, and their transfigurations and transpositions in literature and theatre. Hence, what changed was both the day-to-day life of the committed mental patients, and how mental illness was perceived and interpreted in society, both in itself and in relation to the sphere of the passions. In short, and this is the first objective that this paper aims to demonstrate, we are dealing with the origins of the very process of medicalisation and true pathologisation of the emotions, many consequences of which are still with us today.
In order to achieve the objectives described above, the paper is eminently interdisciplinary. By using the current debate on the history of the emotions, it aims to explore further the late-eighteenth-century ‘psychiatric revolution’ and some of its main consequences on the history of emotions. In short, the task is to outline the extraordinary cultural and social impact that the development of the new public and private hospital institutions had on the traditional ways of interpreting, decoding, representing and experiencing a wide spectrum of emotions.
Short Bibliography
Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges, Les Rapports du physique et du morale de l’homme, Paris: Crapart, Caille et Ravier, 1802, 2 voll.
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de, Traité des sensation, à Madame la comtesse de Vassé, Londres [i.e. Paris], 1754; Dt. Übs von J. M. Weissiger, Abhandlung über die Empfindungen, Wien, 1792.
Crichton, Alexander, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Origin of Mental Derangement: Comprehending a Concise System of the Physiology and Pathology of the Human Mind. And a History of the Passions and Their Effects, London: Cadell, Junior and Davies, 1798, 2 voll.
Dixon, Thomas, From Passions to Emotions. The creation of a Secular Psychological Category, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Esquirol, Des passions considérées comme causes, symptômes, et moyens curatifs de l’aliénation mentale, Paris: Didot Jeune, 1805; nouvelle édition par Gladys Swain et Marcel Gauchet, Paris: Libraire des Deux Mondes, 1980.
– Allgemeine und spezielle Pathologie und Therapie der Seelenstörungen, frei bearbeitet von Dr. Karl Christian Hille, nebst einem Anhange kritischer und erläuternder Zusätze von Dr. J. C. A. Heinroth, Lepzig: Hartmann, 1827.
Frevert, Ute, Emotions in History: Lost and Found, Budapest – New York: Central European Univ., 2011.
Gauchet, Marcel et Swain, Gladys, La Pratique de l’esprit humain: l’institution asilaire et la révolution démocratique, Paris: Gallimard, 1980; II ed. Paris, 2007.
Goldstein, Jan, Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century, Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1987; II ed. with a New Afterword 2001.
Pigeaud, Jackie, Aux Portes de la Psychiatrie: Pinel, l'Ancien et le Moderne, Paris: Aubier, 2001.
Pinel, Philippe, Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale, ou la manie, Paris: Richard, 1800; Dt. Übs: Philosophisch – medizinische Abhandlung über Geistesverirrungen oder Manie, aus dem Frz. Übs. von Michael Wagner, Wien: Schaumburg, 1801; II édition: Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale. Second édition, entièrement refondue et très-augmentée, Paris: Brosson, 1809.
– La médecine clinique rendue plus précise et plus exacte par l'application de l'analyse, ou Recueil et résultat d'observations sur les maladies aiguës, faites à la Salpêtrière, Paris: Gabon et Cie 1802; Dt. Übs von G. F. Krauss, Praktische Heilkunde zu einem höheren Grade von Vollständigkeit und Genauigkeit erhoben durch die Anwendung der analytischen Methode, Bayreuth: Andreas Lübeck 1803. II édition: Paris, 1804; III édition: Paris, 1815.
Postel, Jacques, Genèse de la psychiatrie: les premiers écrits de Philippe Pinel, Paris: Le Sycomore, 1981; zweite Auflage: Le Plessis-Robinson: Synthélabo 1998.
Reil, Johann Christian, Fieberhafte Nervenkrankheiten, in Ueber die Erkentniß und Cur der Fieber, Bd. 4, Halle: Curt, 1802.
– Rhapsodieen über die Anwendung der psychischen Kurmethode auf Geisteszerrüttungen, Halle: Curt, 1803 (zweite Auflage: Halle 1818).
Rigoli, Juan, Lire le délire. Aliénisme, rhétorique et littérature en France au XIXe siècle, Paris: Fayard, 2001.
Schrenk, Martin, Über den Umgang mit Geisteskranken. Die Entwicklung der psychiatrischen Therapie vom “moralischen Régime” in England und Frankreich zu den “psychischen Curmethoden” in Deutschland, Berlin: Springer, 1973.
Smith, Adam, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Millar, 1759, VI ed. 1790.
Swain, Gladys, Le sujet de la folie : naissance de la psychiatrie, Toulouse: Privat, 1977, second édition précédé de "de Pinel à Freud" par Marcel Gauchet: Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1997.
Wallace, Edwin R. and Gach, John (ed.), History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, New York: Springer, 2008.
Weiner, Dora B., Comprendre et Soigner : Philippe Pinel, 1745-1826 : La Médecine de l'Esprit, Paris: Fayard. 1999.
Research Interests: History, Psychology, Social Psychology, Emotion, Psychiatry, and 24 moreFrench History, History of Medicine, History of Science, History Of Emotions, History of Psychiatry, Emotions (Social Psychology), Emotion Regulation, History Of Madness And Psychiatry, History Of Psychology, History of Human Sciences, Affect/Emotion, Medicine (History), Social History of Medicine, Medicine, Emotions, Cultural History of Medicine, Medicina, Madness, Passion, History of Sciences, History of Madness & Psychiatry, History Medicine, History of Philosophy, and Pinel
The paper analyze the crucial moment of rupture in the history of the definitions, descriptions and classifications of melancholy within the ambit of medicine that occurred between the end of the Eighteenth- and beginning of the... more
The paper analyze the crucial moment of rupture in the history of the definitions, descriptions and classifications of melancholy within the ambit of medicine that occurred between the end of the Eighteenth- and beginning of the Nineteenth-century, in particular in France. That is the point at which Philippe Pinel, absorbing the
contributions of Seventeenth-century British psychiatry, proceeded to abandon both the humoral doctrine and the old Renaissance conception of the dual character – melancholy as a psycho-physiological illness and as a literary and philosophical mood. Pinel now locates melancholy only among forms of mental alienation. I will proceed with the subsequent contributions made by Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, who explicitly refused to attribute to melancholy that particular form of duality that was attributed to it in the Renaissance. More generally, I will seek to locate the new conceptualisations of melancholy within the wider scientific and cultural context of nascent modern psychiatry, and of the clinical forms to which it leads. It was in this context that a strict theoretical and therapeutic programme was launched, which aimed at the systematic medicalization of all the human passions and emotions, and proposed, at the same time, their treatment in a vast body of public and private institutions, specifically set up for the purpose. Thus, a variety of figures gradually came to be transformed: suffice it to think of the melancholic poet, the impassioned lover, the fanatic rebel, and their transfigurations and transpositions in literature and theatre. In other words, this is the end of the old renaissance fashionable melancholy.
contributions of Seventeenth-century British psychiatry, proceeded to abandon both the humoral doctrine and the old Renaissance conception of the dual character – melancholy as a psycho-physiological illness and as a literary and philosophical mood. Pinel now locates melancholy only among forms of mental alienation. I will proceed with the subsequent contributions made by Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, who explicitly refused to attribute to melancholy that particular form of duality that was attributed to it in the Renaissance. More generally, I will seek to locate the new conceptualisations of melancholy within the wider scientific and cultural context of nascent modern psychiatry, and of the clinical forms to which it leads. It was in this context that a strict theoretical and therapeutic programme was launched, which aimed at the systematic medicalization of all the human passions and emotions, and proposed, at the same time, their treatment in a vast body of public and private institutions, specifically set up for the purpose. Thus, a variety of figures gradually came to be transformed: suffice it to think of the melancholic poet, the impassioned lover, the fanatic rebel, and their transfigurations and transpositions in literature and theatre. In other words, this is the end of the old renaissance fashionable melancholy.
Research Interests: Psychology, Psychiatry, History of Medicine, History of Science, History of Psychiatry, and 23 moreMelancholia generosa, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Melancholy, History Of Madness And Psychiatry, Melancholia (Art), Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Marsilio Ficino, Melancholy Studies, Madness, Melancolia, Melancholia, Renaissance melancholy and hypochondria, Melancholy, History of medicine, History of Madness & Psychiatry, Depression and Melancholy, Melancholia Studies, Melancholie, History of Philosophy, History of Melancholy, Melancholy In Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Melanconia, Malinconia, and Malinconia. Storia
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Social Theory, and 19 morePhilosophy, Political Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Social Philosophy, Frankfurt School (Philosophy), Political Science, Critical Social Theory, Politics, Continental Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Frankfurt School, Critical and Cultural Theory, Moral and Political Philosophy, Axel Honneth, Moral, and Morality
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Political Sociology, Social Theory, Political Economy, Philosophy, and 44 morePolitical Philosophy, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Social Philosophy, Frankfurt School (Philosophy), Theodor Adorno, Political Science, Critical Social Theory, Jurgen Habermas, Social Justice, Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory (Political Science), Social Movements (Political Science), Philosophy of Social Science, Social Philosophy (Philosophy), History of Political Science, Critical Theory (International Studies), Moral Philosophy, The Frankfurt School, Social and Political Philosophy, Frankfurt School, Political and Social Philosophy, Ethics, Crítica, Axel Honneth, Filosofía Política, Filosofía, Political Sciences, Kritische Theorie, Teoría Crítica, Justicia, reconocimiento, teoría crítica, Social Conflict, Teoria Crítica Social, Critica, Filosofia Politica, Filosofia Sociale, Filosofia Política, Teoria Crítica, Filosofia Politica Contemporanea, Teorìa Crìtica, Critical theory and Frankfurt school - Marx, Teoria Critica, Critical Theory/Frankfurt School, Kritische Sozialwissenschaft, and Scuola Di Francoforte
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A rejoinder to comments by Marco Solinas, Giorgio Fazio, Alessandro Pinzani, Italo Testa, Federica Gregoratto, Leonardo Marchettoni and Matteo Bianchin in this Special Issue of Critical Horizons. The reply follows the different themes... more
A rejoinder to comments by Marco Solinas, Giorgio Fazio, Alessandro Pinzani, Italo Testa, Federica Gregoratto, Leonardo Marchettoni and Matteo Bianchin in this Special Issue of Critical Horizons.
The reply follows the different themes raised by my commentators. Since some of them have pointed out shared concerns, I will reply to these collectively under one headline. I will start with the question of critique (1). Thereafter, I will address the theory/ practice issue within Critical Theory (2). Finally, I will go into the details of the theory of normativity that is at stake (3).
The reply follows the different themes raised by my commentators. Since some of them have pointed out shared concerns, I will reply to these collectively under one headline. I will start with the question of critique (1). Thereafter, I will address the theory/ practice issue within Critical Theory (2). Finally, I will go into the details of the theory of normativity that is at stake (3).