Is it somehow necessary for the human being to be? Is there something that reveals the need of the human being (and for the human being) to continue to be? Through the intersection between philosophy and cinema, and the age-old problem of “The End of the World”, this paper tries to develop an hypothesis involving the deconstruction of this question and, finally, of the inner...
Bachelard’s works on imagination have been used primarily by literary critics interested in the archetypal imagery of writers. His treatment of the imagination of matter has led to a method of classifying poets according to their favorite substances, based on a view of Bachelard as a “psychoanalyst” of the elements. But the phenomena of imagination, the images themselves, are not...
This article tries to develop the assumption that medicine and philosophy can strictly collaborate to assure a correct comprehension of the huge phenomenon of illness and disease. We can imagine a direct application of philosophical theories and models to ameliorate the theoretical instruments of medicine itself. Philosophy can furnish elaborated means to elucidate the problem of...
This work focuses on the apocalyptic nature of Giorgio Agamben's philosophical works. The dialogue with Agamben is full of references to St. Paul's letters, Kafka's literary works and Benjamin's messianism. This work tries to define the criteria of the kairological time, considered as a section of the chronological time which deactivates the discretionary mechanism, along the...
This paper intends to analyze the concept of “Time” that marks the history of Western Metaphysics from the “archaic ontology” to Kostas Axelos, a Greek contemporary philosopher. Following an inner analysis of Western Metaphysics, Axelos comes to a “glossy” sense of Being. A “glossy” sense, based on which man must plunge into the “becoming river” and give up any aspirations to...
This article wants to follow the path and development of “black subject” in the USA through the novels of the Afro-American writer Richard Wright. Written between the 50’s and 70’s, Wright's novels tell us about the segregation and humiliation inflicted by white men, but also the process of self-colonisation that the Afro-American – no longer slaves, but still not entirely free...
If still in Kant, the catastrophe was represented by the image of Lisbon earthquake, in the second half of the 20th century, the catastrophe has its own metaphor in the “hybris” of Technology. In its perverted circularity, Technology is the scene of a match played exclusively by Man, where there’s no trace of an arbiter or director. The disorientation in front of the results of...
What can Philosophy and Science tell about “Apocalypse”? The former seems to show a nihilistic power, while the latter uses a descriptive power, thus avoiding any religious or mystic impulse. The outcome, anyway, looks like a vade mecum. In any case, all “apocalyptic nouns” range between Prophecy and Foresight, Presage and Oracle, Superstition and Faith, Archetype and Destiny...
At present, it is justified to talk about Apocalypse or even “Apocalypses”, in the plural form. The current situation - with the ecological crisis on one side, and the atomic threat on the other side - needs serious, deep, reflection. Günther Anders, one of the greatest German thinkers of the contemporary age, has devoted his attention precisely to this theme. He considers man to...