Hegel’s absolute idealism is not merely the expression of a unique historical moment which was irretrievably lost with modernization, with the era of natural sciences and material progress, but that one can conceive a possible and productive “return to Hegel” which would fully take into account the immense historical change of the last two centuries. The investigation elaborates a new concept of dialectics, focused on the notion of parallax: dialectical “contradiction” is reinterpreted as the parallax shift between two aspects that cannot converge although they refer to the same content.
COBISS.SI-ID: 921735
The principal theme of investigation is the examination of the relationship between ethics and politics, a relationship which has a long history and is often raised in modern political theories. The prevailing view it that every politics, if it wants to avoid totalitarian temptations, has to be grounded in some firm non-political ethical values. In contrast to this the investigation argues that, in today’s era of unheard-of changes, ethics itself is politicized: ethical norms do not come by themselves, they have to be collectively chosen.
COBISS.SI-ID: 884359
The investigation concerning the confrontation of the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan, argues for the principal thesis that our era is not effectively post-Cartesian, but that the Cartesian subjectivity still contains the unexplored possibilities. Drawing on the significant and very influential achievements of Deleuze’s and Lacan’s theories, the investigation amply demonstrates that what unites these two otherwise opposed thinkers is the notion of subjectivity which cannot be reduced to what is usually understood as the legacy of the Cartesian cogito.
COBISS.SI-ID: 770439
The book proposes an interpretation of Christianity grounded in Hegelian dialectics and in radical emancipatory politics. Its premise is the Hegelian interpretation of Christianity whereby Hegel is perhaps the only philosopher who drew full philosophical consequences from the Christian triad Father – Son – Holy Spirit, i.e., from the death of God and his resurrection as the Spirit of the collective of believers. The main theological reference of the book is the “Death-of-God” theology (Thomas Altizer), while its main critical target is the vague New Age spirituality (“Western Buddhism”).
COBISS.SI-ID: 932743
From the point of view of linguistics the voice appears as an element which escapes being captured by linguistic grids; in regard to the history of metaphysics it appears as an element which caused difficulties to all the metaphysical projects from Plato to the French revolution; from the point of view of its relation to the body the voice presents a paradox ; in the domain of ethics the voice represented the voice of conscience from Socrates to Heidegger; in the political perspective the voice is essential for the constitution of the political as a tension with the letter of the law.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31324770