Habitus and Habit

EDITORIALE / Miriam Aiello, Gabriella Paolucci, Alberto Romele Nelle odierne scienze della mente l’attenzione è una funzione cognitiva assai studiata e...

CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Alice Orrù Habit and Climate in Giacomo Leopardi’s Theory of Habituation The paper considers the role...

CONTRIBUTI / 2 / V. Metin Demir Despite Hegel himself drawing our attention to the habitual neglect of habit in the...

CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Michael Lewis Michel Foucault considers the Kantian critical approach to anthropology to end up in a...

CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Luca Micaloni Character, habit and schematism. The role of psychology in Max Horkheimer’s political and social...

ARTICOLI / 1 / Luca Corchia Bourdieusian Habitus Theory. Thinking with and against Durkheim After pointing out the eclectic, pragmatic...

CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Michele Pavan Dynamics of Habit. Inference, Creation and Institution between Hume and Bergson This paper investigates the articulation between inference, creation and institution in the process of habit. In the first part, through Hume’s thought, we...

CONTRIBUTI / 6 / Giulia Lanzirotti This paper aims to offer a renovated reading of the role of habits within the epistemological question of the relationship between perception and conceptuality. Focusing on the Dreyfus-McDowell Debate, the paper proposes to conceive...

CONTRIBUTI / 7 / Igor Pelgreffi In this essay the modification of the Habitus, understood as the transformation of our behaviors (individual and collective) will be inquired, where transformation corresponds to new relationships between repetition and difference and it could...

CONTRIBUTI / 8 / Emma Barettoni Notes for a thought of discontinuity starting with Bourdieu and Spinoza  To explain the reproduction rather than the change, the continuity rather than the discontinuity: this is one of the most often addressed criticism...

ARTICOLI / 2 / Roberto Alciati, Federico Squarcini Exercises to dismiss embodied habitus, between Evagrius Ponticus and the Bhagavadgītā Starting from Pascal’s and Bourdieu’s positions on the subject of habit, in this paper we will present a synoptic analysis of...

CONTRIBUTI / 9 / Chiara Pertile Engineered inheritances. habit and adaptation This paper aims to explore from a historical and a theoretical point of view the topic of habit in the evolutionary field. Starting from the use of habits in...

ARTICOLI / 3 / Guido Baggio Between habit and instinct: the emergence of consciousness in Conwy Lloyd Morgan’s Lowell Lectures In 1895, British zoologist C. Lloyd Morgan was invited to Boston to give the Lowell Lectures. In that period, he...

ARTICOLI / 4 / Michela Bella «Bundles of habits»: the physio-psychological perspective of William James William James devotes Chapter IV of his Principles of Psychology (1890) to Habit. Parts of the chapter initially appeared a few years earlier as an article in the...

ARTICOLI / 5 / Matteo Santarelli This paper aims at discussing the pragmatist contributions to the understanding of the dark side of habits, i.e., those features of habits which tend to hinder the intelligent reconstruction of our relations with ourselves,...

CONTRIBUTI / 10 / Carlo Crosato To be able not to pass into actuality. On Agamben’s strategic interpretation of Aristotelian ontology This paper addresses the strategy by which Giorgio Agamben interprets the Aristotelian texts about the potentiality-actuality ontology. In Agamben’s...

CONTRIBUTI / 11 / Giacomo Pezzano Tendencies to being. Dispositionalism between anthropology, ontology and echology The article discusses some fundamental traits of contemporary dispositionalism, on an anthropological and ontological level. I start claiming that the current relevance of dispositionalism also...

ARTICOLI / 6 / Alessandro De Cesaris Between praxis and technology. A mediological analysis of the notion of habitus The article offers an original theoretical framework for the analysis of the notion of habitus throughout the history of ideas, as...

CONTRIBUTI / 12 / Pietro Ramellini Habits between habitus and habitat: an analysis based on Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita This article analyses the conceptual triad habit-habitus-habitat along the twofold guideline of their common etymological root habere (to have) and...