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Verlagsinfo: This pathbreaking work pursues two interwoven themes. Firstly, it engages in a deconstruction of Ancient philosopher's texts - mainly from Plato, but also from Homer and Parmenides - in order to free four Greek female figures from the patriarchal discourse which for centuries had imprisoned them in a particular role. Secondly, it attempts to construct a symbolic female order, reinterpreting these figures from a new perspective. Building on the theory of sexual difference, Cavarero shows that death is the central category on which the whole edifice of traditional philosophy is based. By contrast, the category of birth provides the thread with which new concepts of feminist criticism can be woven together to establish a fresh way of thinking.

Although in comparison to other key Gramscian concepts, ideology has not been among the most studied, this is beginning to change. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a diffuse and variegated usage of the term in the Prison Notebooks, as well as an innovative extension of the concept, which is articulated around a network of closely correlated terms and concepts. Nevertheless, debates remain over how to understand its meaning in Gramsci's carceral discourse, with some arguing that his distinctive conception of ideology has a "neutral", and arguably, also "positive" meaning, while others contend that it is neither "neutral", nor "positive", but a critical concept. This essay argues that Gramsci's conception of ideology is neither neutral nor positive, but rather, an eminently critical and differentiated analysis of the diverse ideological forms of consciousness through which the popular masses are enveloped within the web of a class's hegemony through the mediation of the philosophers' philosophies, the fruit of his attempt to rethink philosophy politically. In short, understanding Gramsci's conception of ideology in the full sense can only be ascertained by following the threads of his philosophical investigations in their shifts and re-elaborations. Keywords: Gramsci, Politics, Philosophy, Ideology

This essay connects Antonio Gramsci's expanded concept of Marxian ideology to his training in linguistics and, broadly understood, philosophy of language in order to advance a hypothesis regarding Gramsci's views on literary criticism and aesthetic judgment. This hypothesis can be summed up in the following way: aesthetic judgment, including literary criticism, maintains a unity of form and content while rejecting facile attempts to reduce the global meaning of a "political" work of art to its ideological content, where ideology is understood in the sense of a series of theoretical propositions about the world, which reside in the realm of traditional Marxist superstructure. As a result, there is no recourse to either a scientific objectivity or a relativistic emphasis on subjectivity in the evaluation of works of art; instead, priority is given to an immanent, contextual interpretation of works of literature and culture. Such a methodology is intimately related to Gramsci's reworked concept of ideology and therefore deserves further consideration. Keywords: Gramsci; Ideology; Philosophy of Language, Aesthetic Judgment.

The article analyses the historiographic culture of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (Turin University) between 1921 and 1961. The first part of the work focuses on the organization of the degree courses offered by the Faculty, the characterizing traits of the students and the impact of national politics within the institution. The second part conducts a quantitative analysis of the degree theses in History discussed at the Faculty during the chosen period, in order to study the presence of the different disciplines in the life of the Faculty. Finally, the work reflects on the particular interest that the subject History of the Risorgimento has caused in the students.

In this paper, I analyze the idea of the world as the co-existence of humans and things. I argue that this co-existence should be considered from the conceptual perspective of responsibility. In the first two paragraphs, I argue that a system of artefacts always mediates human experience. In the third and fourth paragraphs, I synthetize two different philosophical approaches, namely the theory of artefacts and the materialistic method, which share the thesis of the performativity of artefacts in the constitution of human experience. In the conclusions, I show the political and ethical relevance of this possible material hermeneutics of the world. ; In questo saggio analizzo l'idea del mondo come coesistenza di umani e cose, e sostengo che tale coesistenza debba essere considerate sotto la lente concettuale della responsabilità. Nei primi due paragrafi sostengo che l'esperienza umana è sempre mediata da un sistema di artefatti. Nel terzo e nel quarto paragrafo sintetizzo due differenti approcci filosofici, ossia la teoria degli artefatti e il metodo materialista, i quali condividono la tesi della performatività degli artefatti nella costituzione dell'esperienza umana. Nelle conclusioni mostro la rilevanza etica e politica di questa possibile ermeneutica materiale del mondo. ; In questo saggio analizzo l'idea del mondo come coesistenza di umani e cose, e sostengo che tale coesistenza debba essere considerate sotto la lente concettuale della responsabilità. Nei primi due paragrafi sostengo che l'esperienza umana è sempre mediata da un sistema di artefatti. Nel terzo e nel quarto paragrafo sintetizzo due differenti approcci filosofici, ossia la teoria degli artefatti e il metodo materialista, i quali condividono la tesi della performatività degli artefatti nella costituzione dell'esperienza umana. Nelle conclusioni mostro la rilevanza etica e politica di questa possibile ermeneutica materiale del mondo.

Con il termine di aristocrazia messicana si intende quel gruppo sociale composto da coloro che discendono da antenati facenti parte delle classe dirigente degli encomenderos dei secoli XVI e XVII, dei plutocrati proprietari di haciendas e di miniere e gestori del grande commercio dagli inizi del XVIII secolo al termine del periodo coloniale, e infine di quelle famiglie che dominarono la politica e l'economia del paese dall'indipendenza alla fine del porfirato. All'interno dell'aristocrazia la gerarchia si articola tenendo presente i due fattori dell'antichita del lignaggio e della ricchezza, quest'ultimo risultando prevalente sul primo. Nel lavoro qui presentato vengono presi in esame i simboli e gli elementi di coesione della classe, ma anche le differenze esistenti tra i vari settori che la compongono e le relazioni tra di esse intercorrenti.