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La presente ricerca di dottorato si propone di esaminare l'evoluzione della teologia politica bizantina e dei suoi riflessi nella propaganda imperiale nel periodo compreso tra il XIII e il XIV secolo, attraverso lo studio delle manifestazioni dell'ideologia nell'iconografia e nella numismatica del periodo in esame. L'intreccio interdisciplinare di questi ambiti di ricerca, iconografia e numismatica - con una metodologia innovativa, i cui risultati si profilano estremamente proficui - permette di comprendere i caratteri concreti, ma forse più reconditi, del realizzarsi dell'ideologia politica e della propaganda imperiale nell'impero bizantino ormai ridotto ad una costellazione di potentati particolari di estensione limitata. Il tema specifico di questo studio ha come oggetto alcune iconografie ritenute inedite, o meno tradizionali, nel panorama numismatico bizantino, emesse, in particolare, dalla zecca di Tessalonica tra XIII e XIV secolo, che vengono qui esaminate in funzione dell'evoluzione della rappresentazione imperiale. Tra di esse emerge l'inedita iconografia dell'imperatore pteroforo per la sua valenza di interscambiabilità semantica con l'immagine arcangelica. Lo studio si è proposto l'obiettivo principale di rintracciare elementi iconologici quanto più possibile comuni tra tutti i soggetti iconografici presi in esame, vagliando il substrato ideologico e propagandistico sotteso alla valenza iconologica per ogni tipologia numismatica. ; The aim of the present PhD research is to analyze the byzantine political theology evolution and its effects on the imperial propaganda in the period between the XIII and XIV centuries through the study of the ideology's evidences in iconography and numismatics during the examined period. The interdisciplinary connection of these fields of research - iconography and numismatics - with an innovative methodology, whose achievements are extremely satisfactory, allows to understand the specific characters, and perhaps the most recondite ones, of the political ideology and imperial propaganda development in the Byzantine Empire, now reduced into a constellation of different powers of limited extension. The specific topic of this study is about some iconographies considered unusual in the byzantine numismatic context and they are the subject of peculiar coins struck in the mint of Thessaloniki between the XIII and XIV century. In this study they are analyzed in the light of the imperial image's evolution. Among them, the peculiar iconography of the winged emperor stands out for its semantic symbolism of interchangeability with the image of the archangel Michael. The study's main aim is to find iconological elements shared between all the iconographic subjects studied, by analyzing the ideological and propagandistic base subtended to the iconology of each numismatic type examined.

Analisi critica dell'interpretazione di Ruediger Voigt del pensiero politico-giuridico di Carl Schmitt

In this paper I will analyse the religious issue in the late Kantian work. I argue that Kant's reflections on Christianity have to be strictly connected with those on law and history. This connection lead us to the political theological problem which is crucial in the case of Hegel as well. In the Encyclopedia Hegel explicitly takes inspiration from Kant who thinks that the problem of that age is the relation between religion and law. That is why Kant cannot be considered a liberal thinker because religion is not a mere private question for him but it has a public importance within his modern conception of history. In this sense, I also argue that Kant's judg-ment on Christianity is more negative than that of Hegel who attributes a more positive value to religious beliefs in the history of Spirit.

In this essay, I propose to look at Habermas' recent work like an implicit recognition of the theoretical value of some Carl Schmitt's ideas. Regardless of the harsh criticism that Habermas manifests towards Schmitt's political theology in his latest essays.

In Spinoza's political theory, Judaism and Christianity play a very important role. In particular, in the discourses we find affective dynamics expressing the real effects of imaginative perception. In this essay I try to consider the political figures of Judaism and the difference inaugurated by the Christian message. The latter, in fact, allows to think a universal political theory, putting some important question to Spinoza's political theory, facing – by a more general point of view – the problem of the universal human nature. I will follow the way in which the teaching of Jesus Christ disrupts the discourse concerning the divine election of the Jewish people; this turning point will displace the political enquiry to the field of human nature, and will lead us to question Spinoza's theory on this point.