Politica delle Passioni? 

EDITORIALE / di Cristina Basili, Antonio Gómez Ramos, Federica Pezzoli Scopo di questo numero è quello di interrogarci sull’importanza che l’emotional turn riveste...

ARTICOLI / 1 / di Mauro Bonazzi, Riccardo Chiaradonna Plato has been celebrated for centuries as the champion of the contemplative life. Such a description of Plato will be probably striking...

ARTICOLI / 2 / di Elena Irrera In this paper I examine love of beauty (φιλοκαλία) in Aristotle’s thought, and suggest that he treats it as an emotion (πάθος) able to...

ARTICOLI / 3 / di Manuel Knoll This article shows that human emotions, desires, and passions play an important role in Machiavelli’s analysis and theory of politics. The paper claims that Machiavelli...

CONTRIBUTI/ 1 / di Jonas Holst In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle urges the statesman to study to soul. Yet, what insight into the human soul did he hold in store for the statesman?...

CONTRIBUTI/ 2 / di Joshua Hall For this special issue, dedicated to the historical break in what one might call ‘the politics of feeling’ between ancient ‘passions’ (in the ‘soul’) and...

CONTRIBUTI/ 3 / di Ilaria Ferrara Hobbes’ philosophy expresses a link between the theory of the state and the doctrine of passions. In particular, contrary to an interpretation of modern political...

CONTRIBUTI/ 4 / di Andrea Clemente, Simone Ghelli This article is devoted to the analysis of the passion of self-love. The first part aims to retrace some of the main landmark...

CONTRIBUTI/ 5 / di Debora Sicco The aim of this article is to discuss Rousseau’s concept of love of country, the political passion par excellence. Love of country is necessary for...

ARTICOLI / 4 / di Antonino Firenze The aim of this paper is to criticize the concept of human nature such as biological invariant in which Virno bases his work Scienze sociali e “natura umana”. Facoltà di linguaggio, invariante biologico, rapporti di...

ARTICOLI / 5 / di Antonio Gómez Ramos In the last leg of her long career as a political philosopher, Judith Shklar emphasized the imperative of ‘putting cruelty first’, as well as the ‘sense of injustice’ as the pair of emotions underpinning...

ARTICOLI / 6 / di Francesco Gregorio This paper tries to build the territory of a problem: how can we do a theory of the political scream? Its starting point questions the possibility of a theory which avoids the reduction of the...

ARTICOLI / 7 / di Panagiotis Christias Politics and common passions presuppose a collective institutional framework, a media space for everyone to expresses himself through passion and reason. Persuasive strength and the ability to mobilize common passions are specific characteristics to the...

CONTRIBUTI / 6 / di Alessio Lembo The remarkable interest aroused by Spinoza at the beginning of the twentieth century produced a use of his thought regardless of any thematic limitation. In fact, since the 1930s, the name of Spinoza is frequently...

CONTRIBUTI / 7 / di Matteo Angelo Mollisi The aim of this paper is to try to suggest some political potentialities of the Heideggerian concept of Befindlichkeit, as it is presented in his main work Being and time. Our thesis is that...

CONTRIBUTI / 8 / di Stefano Berni, Verbena Giambastiani This article interrogates Hannah Arendt and Carl Schmitt’s different notions of friendship. Arendt defines citizenship in terms of a horizontal commitment to friends. Friendship has political weight because it is only through friendship...

CONTRIBUTI / 9 / di Mario Sei As the Antoinette Rouvroy and Thomas Berns’s research shows, in the era of automatic computation, is emerging an «Algorithmic Governmentality», based on traceability and profiling of individuals behaviours. These immense capacities of technologies are exploited by...

CONTRIBUTI / 10 / di Mirko Alagna Grudge, resentment, fear, violent reaction to a paranoid feeling of powerlessness: these are some ingredients of the ‘growl’, which is proposed here as the political passion of the present – more then anger or...

CONTRIBUTI / 11 / di Lorenzo De Stefano The aim of the essay is to examine the mechanism that rules the World Wide Web and the new frontier of communication, the Online Social Network, in reference to the repercussion that this new...

NOTA CRITICA / di Santiago Zabala Una coazione all’ordine informa l’ideologia, le politiche e i valori del Presidente Trump. Questo è evidente non solo nel suo peculiare rapporto con i fatti, ma anche nel bisogno di rendere di nuovo grande l’America. Sebbene...