#39 – Lo Sguardo | Rivista di Filosofia Online https://www.losguardo.net Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:05:39 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.13 Pensare per casi. Riflessioni storico-metodologiche sul metodo casuistico https://www.losguardo.net/it/pensare-per-casi-riflessioni-storico-metodologiche-sul-metodo-casuistico/ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:56:08 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6192 EDITORIALE / Xenia Chiaramonte, Antonio Lucci Thinking by cases: Historical and methodological reflections on the casuistic method This editorial article offers a theoretical and historical reflection on casuistry as a method of reasoning from singular cases toward general insights. Starting from a literary episode in Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey, the authors...

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]]> Caso e metodo. Intervista a Carlo Ginzburg https://www.losguardo.net/it/caso-e-metodo-intervista-a-carlo-ginzburg/ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:50:29 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6190 INTERVISTE / 1 / a cura di Cora Presezzi Case and Method: Interview with Carlo Ginzburg The interview retraces the central role of anomalous cases in Carlo Ginzburg’s works, starting from his earliest investigations into witchcraft trials and the inquisitorial transcripts concerning the benandanti and the miller Menocchio. It also reflects on the relationship between...

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]]> Alles, was der Fall ist. Zur Methodologie Johan Huizingas https://www.losguardo.net/it/alles-was-der-fall-ist-zur-methodologie-johan-huizingas/ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:46:28 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6188 ARTICOLI / 1 / Thomas Macho Everything, which is the case. On Johan Huizinga’s methodology This paper revisits Johan Huizinga’s cultural historiography by focusing on three methodological pillars: skepticism toward grand historical narratives (progress or decline), a preference for case-based inquiry, and a morphology of cultural forms. Emphasis is placed on Huizinga’s affinity with casuistry:...

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]]> Up and Down. Generale e particolare in Max Weber https://www.losguardo.net/it/up-and-down-generale-e-particolare-in-max-weber/ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:38:08 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6186 ARTICOLI / 2 / Mirko Alagna Up and Down: General and Particular in Max Weber This paper situates Max Weber’s methodological commitment within the Methodenstreit, the late nineteenth-century dispute on method that shaped German intellectual life. Moving beyond the sterile opposition between nomothetic and idiographic approaches, Weber develops an original strategy: the construction of ideal-typical,...

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]]> Irriducibilità dell’individuo e pluralismo metodologico. Caso e metodo in Karl Jaspers https://www.losguardo.net/it/irriducibilita-dellindividuo-e-pluralismo-metodologico-caso-e-metodo-in-karl-jaspers/ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:25:02 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6184 CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Francesca Ferrara The irreducibility of the individual and methodological pluralism. Case and method in Karl Jaspers The essay focuses on analysing the relationship between clinical case and method in Karl Jaspers’ psychopathological thought. For Jaspers, reasoning about this problem did not only meet an important historical–philosophical need, fitting perfectly into the...

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]]> Telescopio, microscopio, lente di ingrandimento, matita. Abbozzo di una metodologia casuistica https://www.losguardo.net/it/telescopio-microscopio-lente-di-ingrandimento-matita-abbozzo-di-una-metodologia-casuistica/ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:21:58 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6182 ARTICOLI / 3 / Antonio Lucci Telescope, microscope, magnifying glass, and pencil: Sketching a Methodology for Casuistry This paper outlines a “casuistic method” as a third way between generalist and empiricist approaches in the humanities. Reinterpreting Thomas Macho’s metaphor of hunters and gatherers via Carlo Ginzburg’s evidential paradigm, the article critiques Ernst Cassirer’s philosophical anthropology...

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]]> Il caso, o dei collettivi prossimi alla comparsa. A partire da Yan Thomas https://www.losguardo.net/it/il-caso-o-dei-collettivi-prossimi-alla-comparsa-a-partire-da-yan-thomas/ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:13:23 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6179 ARTICOLI / 4 / Xenia Chiaramonte The case, or collectives close to appearing: Starting with Yan Thomas This contribution addresses the theme of the ‘case’ in law, understanding ‘case’ as an occurrence that ‘poses a problem’ for the legal system. A case is a deposit of arguments that, transcending the immediate historical context from which...

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]]> La matrice della singolarità in Gabriel Tarde. Espansione della differenza e precedente giuridico https://www.losguardo.net/it/la-matrice-della-singolarita-in-gabriel-tarde-espansione-della-differenza-e-precedente-giuridico/ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:05:54 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6177 CONTRIBUTI / 2 / Cecilia Castaldo The matrix of singularity in Gabriel Tarde: Difference Expansion and legal precedent The purpose of the present article is to analyze the relationship between the whole and its parts in Gabriel Tarde’s thought, starting from the assumption that the whole is always less than the relationships between the parts...

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]]> The Issue of Statistics in Medicine in the Era of the Fever Crisis: Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis and the Numerical School https://www.losguardo.net/it/the-issue-of-statistics-in-medicine-in-the-era-of-the-fever-crisis-pierre-charles-alexandre-louis-and-the-numerical-school/ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:01:05 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6175 CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Giulia Gandolfi With the advent of artificial intelligence and its extensive use of statistics in clinical practice, ethical and epistemic challenges in applying statistical methods have become increasingly significant. Issues include preventing statistics from producing merely correlative knowledge lacking causality, ensuring meaningful patient care, preserving patient individuality, and balancing qualitative and...

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]]> Casuistry in Action. Individuals’ Challenge to Eugenic Collectivism as Seen in Court Cases in Japan https://www.losguardo.net/it/casuistry-in-action-individuals-challenge-to-eugenic-collectivism-as-seen-in-court-cases-in-japan/ Sun, 05 Oct 2025 10:53:13 +0000 https://www.losguardo.net/?p=6173 CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Jason Morgan The 1948 Eugenic Protection Law (Yūsei hogo hō) in Japan ushered in a collectivist, utilitarian, generalized paradigm in Japanese social life and jurisprudence. The individual, whether as unwanted child, diseased adult, or social inferior, was aborted, sterilized, quarantined, and otherwise removed from the collective under ideological cover of eugenics...

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