Francesco Valagussa

Claudia Baracchi

Carmelo Meazza

Elena Bartolini

Giuseppe Pintus

Antonio Catalano

Come è noto, la fenomenologia ha conosciuto in Francia un importantissimo sviluppo nella seconda metà del XX secolo, fino al punto da poter parlare di una «passione fenomenologica francese». D’altronde è importante ricordare che Husserl in Francia si è presentato già dal 1929 tenendo alla Sorbona le due conferenze che saranno poi pubblicate con il titolo Méditations cartésiennes. Da quel momento, diverse generazioni di pensatori francesi, formati a quella che Paul Ricœur ha definito la «scuola della fenomenologia», hanno saputo svilupparne i temi e il metodo in molteplici direzioni, spingendoli in certi casi anche al di là del compito che Husserl le attribuiva. Questo volume raccoglie i contributi di diversi studiosi coinvolti nei convegni di un progetto di ricerca di interesse nazionale dedicato alla fenomenologia francese, con l’obiettivo di fare il punto sulla situazione attuale di questa corrente, sulla sua eredità e sulle principali aperture, nonché sulle ricadute di questa impostazione di lavoro nell’ambito della filosofia italiana.

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La fenomenologia francese II

In Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy, Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking. Referring to a broad range of texts from the Aristotelian corpus, Baracchi shows how the theoretical is always informed by a set of practices, and, specifically, how one's encounter with phenomena, the world, or nature in the broadest sense, is always a matter of ethos.

Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy

"Baracchi has identified pivotal points around which the Republic operates; this allows a reading of the entire text to unfold.... a very beautifully written book." -- Walter Brogan "... a work that opens new and timely vistas within the Republic.... Her approach... is thorough and rigorous." -- John Sallis Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work remains obscure and enigmatic. To fully understand and appreciate its meaning, she argues, we must attend to what its original language discloses. Through a close reading of the Greek text, attentive to the pervasiveness of story and myth, Baracchi investigates the dialogue's major themes. The first part of the book addresses issues of generation, reproduction, and decay as they apply to the founding of Socrates' just city. The second part takes up the connection between war and the cycle of life, employing a thorough analysis of Plato's rendition of the myth of Er. Baracchi shows that the Republic is concerned throughout with the complex but intertwined issues of life and war, locating the site of this tangled web of growth and destruction in the mythical dimension of the Platonic city.

Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic

This reading of Plato's Republic illuminates the power of myth in the shaping of history. It demonstrates the pervasiveness of myth in Plato's dialogues as well as within philosophy generally.

Aristotle is one of the most crucial figures in the history of Western thought, and his name and ideas continue to be invoked in a wide range of contemporary philosophical discussions. The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle brings together leading scholars from across the world and from a variety of philosophical traditions to survey the recent research on Aristotle's thought and its contributions to the full spectrum of philosophical enquiry, from logic to the natural sciences and psychology, from metaphysics to ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Further essays address aspects of the transmission, preservation, and elaboration of Aristotle's thought in subsequent phases of the history of philosophy (from the Judeo-Arabic reception to debates in Europe and North America), and look forward to potential future directions for the study of his thought. In addition, The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle includes an extensive range of essential reference tools offering assistance to researchers working in the field, including a chronology of recent research, a glossary of key Aristotelian terms with Latin concordances and textual references, and a guide to further reading.

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