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AbstractThe first book of Agamben'sHomo Sacerseries contains very few references to Heidegger. Even so, the pages that Agamben devotes to Heidegger in the third part of the book are far from a digression. They touch on a number of crucial topics that are vital to both Heidegger and Agamben, such as the relationship between philosophy and politics, the specific philosophical motivations behind Heidegger's political commitment, and life as a central philosophical theme. This article evaluates Agamben's interpretation of Heidegger in those pages by concentrating on two interrelated questions: (1) whether and to what extent Agamben's biopolitical reading of Heidegger is plausible and persuasive, and (2) how to judge the relationship between their respective accounts of life, which center around the two seminal concepts of "bare life" and "facticity."

AbstractThe aim of this article is to demonstrate that even if Popper's and Patočka's interpretations of Plato originate in philosophical and intellectual traditions that have nothing or very little to do with each other, they share a common target, that is, modern biopower, which culminated in twentieth-century totalitarianism. If we examine Popper's and Patočka's interpretations of Plato from a biopolitical angle, it is possible to view them in a new light, that is, as two different, even opposing, intellectual and philosophical approaches to the very same tragic events that European culture and politics experienced in the twentieth century. Despite the radically divergent results of their readings, Popper and Patočka share a starting point, that is, the effort to outline a genealogy of European cultural and intellectual history in the light of Plato. The first section of this article explains why and to what extent Popper's and Patočka's interpretations can be considered genealogical readings. The second section elaborates on their different approaches to the relationship between justice and power in Plato. The third section concentrates on the relationship between Plato and twentieth-century biopower.

The aim of this paper is to discuss whether and to what extent Husserl's Crisis can help us to understand the challenges of Europe's current crisis. The paper identifies both the problematic aspects of Husserl's analysis and its fruitful components. In this connection, special attention is paid to three themes: the relationship between philosophical thought and Europe's crisis, the emergence of a phenomenological philosophy of history, and the political scope of the life-world. These themes are discussed with particular reference to the connection between Husserl's philosophy of subjectivity and his conception of history.

This volume studies, from different perspectives, the relationship between ancient thought and biopolitics, that is, theories, discourses, and practices in which the biological life of human populations becomes the focal point of political government.

Intro -- Phenomenology and Experience: New Perspectives -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Phenomenology and Experience: A Brief Historico-Philosophical Introduction -- What is Diaphenomenology? A Sketch -- Transcendental Experience -- Encountering Finitude: On the Hermeneutic Radicalization of Experience -- Poverty and Promise: Towards a Primordial Hermeneutic Experience -- Experience and Unity in Husserl's Solution to the Crisis -- Forgetfulness of Experience: Ideality and Necessity in Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Husserl's "Origin of Geometry -- Conditions of Historical Experience: Husserlian Reflections -- Motives in Experience: Pfänder, Geiger, and Stein -- Experience and Normativity: The Phenomenological Approach -- The Specificity of Medium: Painting and Thinking in Merleau-Ponty's "Eye and Mind -- Pregnant Embodiment as World Transformation -- Index of Names and Subjects.

Il presente lavoro riporta uno studio eseguito in un'area della Sicilia, quella di Prizzi, inclusa nella regione geologica dei Monti Sicani, dove è stata redatta una cartografia di rischio d'inquinamento per acquiferi ancora poco contaminati. L'intendimento è quello di superare il concetto di vulnerabilità intrinseca ove applicato alle aree carsiche e di privilegiare così il pericolo di contaminazione degli acquiferi in relazione con le minacce d'inquinamento in ambiente carsico. Sono stati, di conseguenza, raccolti gli elementi di rischio legati alla presenza nel territorio dei centri di pericolo, redigendo un database ed elaborando un gruppo di mappe di pericolo territoriale. Queste, unitamente alle altre informazioni, possono fornire un'opportunità alle Pubbliche Amministrazioni al fine di poter indirizzare precauzionalmente la localizzazione o lo spostamento di infrastrutture o di insediamenti potenzialmente inquinanti (reti fognarie, discariche, aree industriali.). L'obiettivo finale, quindi, è quello di tener conto della possibilità di accadimento di incidenti o addirittura di catastrofi idrogeologiche, consentendo l'opportuna ubicazione delle stesse fonti di approvvigionamento idrico. ; This paper resumes an experience of evaluation, in a karst inland area of Sicily, of the danger contamination of groundwater characterizing the investigated territories, trying to connect them with the potential and real occurring menaces of pollution. A protection tool is conveniently represented by territory mapping performed in GIS environment, collecting also records of contamination sources spread in the territory and through the application of special standards for the estimation of the various risk elements. The final proposal is to furnish a useful opportunity to local administrations (municipalities, provinces, regional governments) for a reliable policy and management of their territories: in fact, they can precautionarily select suitable zones to locate or also shift particular infrastructures or settlements (sewerage networks, landfills, industrial poles…), with reference to dangerous events potentially occurring close to water supply sources. In this paper, a Sicily test-site will be depicted, located in the mountainous Sicani belt, where karst aquifers show till now a relative good groundwater quality, together with a likely danger of an increasing contamination risk. In the selected zone, a mapping of territorial danger has been performed in GIS environment.

The Management of Distinctions: Jacob Taubes on Paul's Political TheologyPaul as Political Theologian: How the "New Perspective" Is Reshaping Philosophical and Theological Discourse; Church, Commonwealth, and Toleration: John Locke as a Reader of Paul; Europe and Paul of Tarsus: Giorgio Agamben on the Overcoming of Europe's Crisis; The Invisible Committee as a Pauline Gesture: Anarchic Politics from Tiqqun to Tarnac; Epilogue: Saint Paul and Philosophy-The Consonance of Ancient and Modern Thought; Index of Ancient Sources; Index of Names and Subjects