DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15644250

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Francesco Toto

Università degli Studi “Roma Tre” (francesco.toto@uniroma3.it; ORCID: 0000-0002- 3080-5905).

Abstract: This article is the first part of a comparison between Hobbes’s and Spinoza’s theories of recognition as they appear in De Cive and the Tractatus theologico-politicus. It examines the use of the concepts of glory and honor in De Cive, revealing two distinct levels of Hobbes’s theory. In the first and second sections of De Cive, glory is presented mostly as a destabilizing passion that leads to competition, undermines social bonds, and challenges any moral or political solution to the problem of … Continua a leggere

DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15643681

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Fiormichele Benigni

Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ (fiormichele.benigni@gmail.com; orcid: 0000- 0003-0626-4149).

“Latet anguis sub herba”. Spinozism and God’s power in some theological debates.

Abstract: The article examines some academic theses discussed by German theologians between the 17th and 18th centuries, which focus on Spinoza’s ‘theology’. In particular, the topic of divine power allows Spinozism to be considered as a metaphysics that forces us to redefine the relationship between God’s attributes. In the reading of many theologians, the primacy of potentia Dei is, on the one hand, a paradigm that has immediate consequences for political theory; on the … Continua a leggere

DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15707582

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Luca Micaloni

Università Sapienza di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche (luca.micaloni@uniroma1.it).

Enigma or Explanation? The Two Faces of Voluntary Servitude and a Compatibilist Hypothesis

Abstract: This article explores the conceptual and theoretical tensions inherent in the notion of voluntary servitude, as formulated by Étienne de La Boétie. The Discours de la servitude volontaire is read through a dual lens: as an enigmatic formulation of political submission freely chosen by the dominated, and as a text that simultaneously gestures toward sociological and psychological explanations of obedience. The paper investigates whether a genuinely free will can wilfully choose … Continua a leggere

DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15644230

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Sebastiano Taccola

Ricercatore indipendente (sebastianotaccola@gmail.com; ORCID: 0000-0002-1863- 084X).

The Manifestation of Essence: The Phantasmagoria of Capital between Subjectivist Hypertrophies and De-Historicizing Reifications

Abstract: Following the conceptual directions outlined by Adorno in a university course dedicated to the concept of metaphysics, this article argues for the centrality of the reciprocal mediation between essence and appearance as a key to critically interpreting our contemporary condition. Today’s world appears increasingly torn between a spectral social objectivity and an ahistorical hypertrophy of the human subject. This condition is the effect of the phantasmagoria of capital. Returning to Marx’s critique of the fetish … Continua a leggere

DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15644173

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Giuliano Guzzone

Ricercatore indipendente (guzzonegiuliano@gmail.com; ORCID: 0009-0004-0277- 5763).

World Market, Nation-State, Economic Nationalism in Gramsci. Proposal for a re-reading

Abstract: This article intends to reconsider Gramsci’s thought about the connection between (capitalist) world market and nation-state, by paying attention to the issue of economic nationalism. It is argued that Gramsci, in his Prison Notebooks, outlined a more complex and dialectical vision of the economic nationalism, as a vehicle of relatively innovative instances in a framework of creative preservation of the bourgeois hegemony. This result is based on a rethinking of the relation between industry and territory, on … Continua a leggere

DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15692121

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Federico Giorgi

University of Namur, Belgium (federico.giorgi@unamur.be; ORCID: 0000-0002- 7154-2013).

Abstract: The essay takes a critical stance towards the widespread thesis that life is computable or even reproducible on a medium other than a biological body. The insights of some opponents of that thesis were somehow anticipated by Whitehead in his metaphysical works, and the essay is intended to stress the relevance of Whitehead’s processual ontology to the debate on artificial life. Some of Whitehead’s notions, such as the mental pole and the living person, help significantly to account for the divide between organisms and machines. Two … Continua a leggere

DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15644202

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Eleonora Piromalli

Dip. di Filosofia, Università di Roma “Sapienza” (eleonora.piromalli@uniroma1.it; ORCID: 0000-0001-9281-8712).

 Abstract: Energy poverty, initially explored in the 1970s in the UK in response to rising energy prices and the struggles of low-income households, is often analysed through distributive and techno-economic perspectives. This article adopts an intersectional and structural approach, applying Iris Marion Young’s framework of the “five faces of oppression” ‒ exploitation, marginalisation, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence ‒ to provide a deeper understanding of energy poverty. Thereby, the article reveals how energy poverty is deeply rooted in systemic inequalities and cannot be fully addressed … Continua a leggere

DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15643713

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Lorenzo d’Auria

Ricercatore indipendente (lorenzo.dauria@ymail.com; ORCID: 0000-0002-2254- 2573).

 On the Perverse Connection Between Economic and Cognitive Abstraction 

Abstract: We are witnessing a symbiotic relationship between two self-accretion processes: the accumulation of capital, on one side, and the accumulation of knowledge, on the other. Both have a similar underlying structure: an abstract pole assumes a dominant role over a concrete pole; in both cases, the abstract side subsumes and uses the concrete one for its ends; it becomes (as taught by Marx in Capital) the true subject of a system capable of potentially unlimited growth. In the … Continua a leggere