Philosophy and catastrophe

ARTICOLI / 1 / Andrea Tagliapietra / Following its modern meaning, “catastrophe” indicates the turning point of a narrative, that leads to...

CONTRIBUTI / 2 / Matteo Marcheschi / The aim of this essay is to show how the narrative philosophy of Diderot’s Jacques le...

ARTICOLI / 2 / Caterina Resta / The 1755 Lisbon earthquake was widely discussed by the most famous Enlightenment philosophers, from Voltaire...

CONTRIBUTI / 2 / François-Xavier de Peretti / Painful and destructive, the “death of God” takes, for Nietzsche, the function of a...

ARTICOLI / 3 / Gregers Andersen / We are on the brink of entering a new age in Earth’s history that calls...

CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Donatella Nigro / In this essay, the author examines the last, unfinished book by Ernesto De Martino, published in 1977 by Clara Gallini: The end of the world. Contribution to the analysis of...

CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Valeria Dattilo / This paper aims to trace the idea of ​​catastrophe taking its cue from La fine del mondo. Contributo alle analisi delle apocalissi culturali by Ernesto de Martino. According to de...

ARTICOLI / 4 / Margherita Geniale / The relationship between the developmental catastrophe and the birth of transcendent thought is investigated from the category of the sublime, as the overcoming of the fear of natural forces and...

CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Tommaso Guariento / Today’s current state of political, economic, and social crisis is fostering the proliferation of narratives and philosophies of catastrophe. Our intent with this article is to map the topography of...

ARTICOLI / 5 / Wolfgang Wildgen / As a discipline, Philosophy lies in a field that is beyond science and it is, in this respect, comparable to art. Therefore, the topic of continua and catastrophes is dealt...

TESTI / 1 / Joshua Yates / Ulrich Beck has elaborated an original formulation of the theory of risk and reflexive modernization, a formulation that has had a significant impact not only upon sociological theorizing and research....

TESTI / 2 / Frederic Neyrat / Catastrophes now are part of our daily lives, as though the apocalypse could hit us each morning. Yet this crazy relation to the world is a sane response to postmodern...

ARTICOLI / 6 / Valerio Nitrato-Izzo / This article deals with the links and the relationships between contemporary city, catastrophe and law. The urban dimension is crucial for understanding the dynamics of global risk. The disaster is...

ARTICOLI / 7 / Vivian Liska / Can us think the catastrophe? If we want to face the paradox that links the suddenness of the catastrophe and the temporality of thought we will find really useful Walter...

CONTRIBUTI / 6 / Giacomo Maria Arrigo / «The world is about to get rid of morality, becoming total organization that is total destruction. Progress tends to culminate in a catastrophe». This few words sum up the...

ARTICOLI / 8 / Giovanni Lombardo / Leopardi’s attempt to establish a parallelism between sense and syntax in the first stanza of Ultimo canto di Saffo reminds the longinian technique that Erich Auerbach had recognised in...

ARTICOLI / 9 / Lisa Block de Behar /  Dramatic, enigmatic, the work of Paul Celan ciphers and reveals a poetics of catastrophe, a disaster that overturns or turns upside-down a world that is coming to an end....

ARTICOLI / 10 / Francesco Muzzioli /  The genre of dystopia, now by far inflated by mass imagination, become almost the realism of our times. This essay investigates how dystopia is combined with the irony. Irony...

ARTICOLI / 11 / Maria Stella Barberi /  Starting from Tocqueville’s theories on modern democracy and Dostoyevsky’s allegory of Grand Inquisitor, this article attempts to detect the hidden ‘inclination to catastrophe’ that inspires the French writer...