Archivi categoria: NUMERO 20

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21157789

Filippo Del Lucchese

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21158017

Francesco Cerrato

Alma mater studiorum, Università di Bologna (francesco.cerrato@unibo.it; Orcid: 0000-0003-0858-3012).

Abstract: The article reconstructs Antonio Labriola’s relationship with Spinoza, showing how his early reflection on the passions in the Ethics influences his later adherence to historical materialism. Unlike Gentile and Spaventa, Labriola does not interpret Spinoza as a forerunner of Hegelianism, but as the founder of an ethical naturalism grounded in necessity. In The Origin and Nature of the Passions According to Spinoza’s Ethics (1866), he emphasizes the connection between knowledge, affectivity, and praxis, re-evaluating the geometrical order as a model of natural necessity. For … Continua a leggere

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21158178

Marco Fioravanti

Università degli studi di Tor Vergata (marco.fioravanti@uniroma2.it; Orcid: 0000- 0002-0020-3591).

Abstract: The text traces the construction and crisis of the memory of the French Revolution, taking as its starting point the ephemeral statue of Robespierre erected in Moscow in 1918. Through an analysis of Marx’s relationship with the Revolution, it shows how 1789, the Terror, and Napoleon served as ambivalent references in the formation of socialist thought. The essay then reconstructs the evolution of revolutionary historiography from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, focusing on figures such as Jaurès, Mathiez, and Soboul, and highlighting … Continua a leggere

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21164217

Giorgio Cesarale

Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (giorgio.cesarale@unive.it).

Abstract: This paper addresses a crucial question of modern rationalism: the relationship between finitude and infinity. Reiterated across multiple dimensions – ranging from the problem of infinity itself to the tension between freedom and necessity, and between the ideas of the true and of the good – this polarity profoundly shapes the very conditions of possibility of modern subjectivity. Drawing on Borkenau’s reading of Descartes, the paper first examines this philosophical issue against the background of the transformation of the capitalist mode of production, from manufacture to machinery. Through … Continua a leggere

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21158328

Fabio Frosini

Università degli Studi di Urbino (fabio.frosini@uniurb.it; Orcid: 0000000249772314)

Abstract: The article reconstructs Antonio Gramsci’s evolving engagement with Niccolò Machiavelli, from his early writings to the Prison Notebooks. As early as 1917, Gramsci framed Machiavelli as a critical alternative to Italian cultural fragmentation, juxtaposing him against the “stenterellesque” bourgeoisie. In the Prison Notebooks, he advances a radical reinterpretation of Machiavellian thought, portraying The Prince as a political project aimed at establishing a bourgeois national state through an urban-rural alliance. He casts Machiavelli as a “jacobin” ante litteram and a forerunner of a “philosophy of praxis” grounded … Continua a leggere

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21158682

Damiano Palano

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (damiano.palano@unicatt.it; Orcid: 0000- 0002-6561-9272).

Abstract: The text reconstructs Mario Tronti’s theoretical elaboration of the idea of the autonomy of the political, beginning with the crisis of operaismo in the 1960s. Through engagement with the first English Revolution, with Hobbes and Cromwell, Tronti rereads the formation of the modern state as the driver of the transition to capitalism, anticipating economic processes and configuring itself as an autonomous machine of power. Hobbes’s negative anthropology and political realism become tools for envisioning a “working-class Realpolitik” capable of governing capital without reproducing its presuppositions. … Continua a leggere

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21158736

Salvo Vaccaro

Università degli Studi di Palermo (salvo.vaccaro(at)unipa.it; orcid: 0000-0002-2244- 3836).

Abstract: The article analyzes anarchist thought as a constitutive negation of the archē, understood both as a political principle and as an ontological foundation. Starting from Catherine Malabou’s observation on the paradox of contemporary anarchism, the author traces the origin of the tension between the negation of authority and the possibility of a non-hierarchical social order back to classical Greek antiquity (Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle). Modern anarchism, which emerged in the context of Enlightenment critique, is characterized by the joint articulation of liberty and … Continua a leggere

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21158791

Stefano Petrucciani

Università degli Studi di Roma, “La Sapienza” (stefano.petrucciani@uniroma1.it; orcid: 0000-0002-4283-2396).

Abstract: The article reconstructs the complex intertwining between Marxism and Kantian philosophy. After an initial phase in which Marx, following Hegel, criticizes Kantian moral formalism, late nineteenth-century attempts at reconciliation emerge, as in the neo-Kantian socialism of Bernstein, Vorländer, and Adler, who emphasize the categorical imperative and the communal dimension of conscience. In the early twentieth century, Lenin reads Kant as an intermediate position between materialism and idealism, though criticizing the unknowability of the thing-in-itself. Later, Lukács interprets Kant as a stage in overcoming the … Continua a leggere

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21158836

Federica Giardini

Università di Roma-Tre (federica.giardini@uniroma3.it; Orcid: 0000-0002-6804- 0960)

Abstract: The article provides a comparative analysis of Silvia Federici’s Il grande Calibano and Caliban and the Witch, tracing their theoretical-political development. Its central theme is the political deployment of history to foreground invisibilized subjectivities: the rebellious social body and the witch. Utilizing the category of social reproduction, Federici critiques orthodox Marxist historiography and reasserts a genealogical approach to primitive accumulation, reconceptualized as a recursive global process. This theoretical development is interwoven with cycles of feminist, workers’, and anti-structural adjustment movements, articulating an intersectional analysis of exploitation … Continua a leggere

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21158879

Oliver Feltham

American University of Paris (ofeltham@aup.edu; Orcid: 0000-0001-8946-2014).

Abstract: The article analyzes the concept of the subject in Alain Badiou, beginning with his rereading of Descartes through Lacan. In the final meditation of Being and Event, Badiou reconstructs the subject as a finite fragment within an infinite praxis of truth, distinct both from the classical self-transparent subject and from the Lacanian subject still correlated with an object. Through his critique of the Cartesian “suture” of the symbolic order, Badiou argues that there is no unified “Big Other”. The subject instead emerges as a performative effect … Continua a leggere

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21158925

Miguel Mellino

Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (miguel.mellino@gmail.com; Orcid: 0000-0002-1405-7986).

Abstract: The article reconstructs the Marxism-Leninism of C.L.R. James, highlighting its specific historical and political features. Though rooted in the Marxist tradition, James develops an autonomous conception of modernity as a product of global social struggles, rejecting both vanguardism and abstract universalism. Through a trajectory that extends from 1930s anti-colonial Pan-Africanism to activism in the United States and the break with Trotskyism, James elaborates an idea of organization based on mass autonomy and grassroots council practices. In his militant writings from the 1950s and 1960s (Facing … Continua a leggere