No. 11, II/2022 – Utopia, Modernity, Post-modernity Download PDF OVERVIEW Immaginare l’utopia Giuseppe Palermo CONTRIBUTIONS Scienza e distopia. Norbert Wiener, il giovane Kurt Vonnegut e l’America degli anni Cinquanta Maurizio Cambi ‘Comme l’espérance est violante’. Hope and Utopia in Benjamin, Bloch, and Adorno Hyun Höchsmann Messianism in the ‘End of History’: a Dialogue Betweem Accelerationism […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10961754 Review of Pompeo, L. (2022). Symphonia Trinitatis. Trinità, identità e relazione nell’itinerario teologico di Ildegarda di Bingen, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 244 pp. by Antonio Sordillo Book Review of Pompeo, L. (2022). Symphonia Trinitatis. Trinità, identità e relazione nell’itinerario teologico di Ildegarda di Bingen, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 244 pp. by Antonio Sordillo. Download PDF
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10961468 Inschibboleth. From Online Journal to Publishing House by Giuseppe Pintus Account by Giuseppe Pintus of the evolution of a project called Inschibbolet: from online journal to cultural association, and finally to publishing house. Download PDF
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10961404 Of Typhoon Winds and Giant Vultures. Anti-Christian Allusions in Marino’s Vita Procli by Claudia Gianturco This paper aims to examine the anti-Christian allusions that can be identified in Marinus of Neapolis’ Vita Procli, a text that offers a funeral eulogy to his master Proclus and illustrates the perfect blissful condition he achieved in […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10961356 The Nature of Humanity and Utopia in Gulliver’s Travels by Zhen Han Thomas More’s Utopia is the pioneer of modern utopian writings. Unlike the classical utopia found in Plato’s Politeia or Atlantis, which only existed in myth and dialogue, More argued that Utopia exists in parts of our own world. However, More failed […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10961324 Messianism in the ‘End of History’: a Dialogue Betweem Accelerationism and Saint Paul by Anna Rafecas Sogas In this article, I propose that Left Accelerationism is better characterized as a messianism rather than as a variant of accelerationism. To argue for this claim, I establish a dialogue between Left Accelerationism and the messianic […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10961154 “Comme l’espérance est violante”. Hope and Utopia in Benjamin, Bloch, and Adorno by Hyun Höchsmann Benjamin’s thinking on hope and utopia permeates his philosophical endeavours, from his earliest writings (Zwei Gedichte von Friedrich Hölderlin: “Dichtermut”–“Blödigkeit”, Theologisch-politisches Fragment, and Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften) to Über den Begriff der Geschichte. The fortitude of Bloch’s encyclopaedic work on […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10961116 Science and Dystopia. Robert Wiener, the Young Kurt Vonnegut, and 1950s America. by Maurizio Cambi The paper analyses the content of some short stories and Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel, which feature Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, as the protagonist. With the skilful use of fiction and elegant irony, Vonnegut gives life to […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10960068 Imagining Utopia by Giuseppe Palermo Editorial by Giuseppe Palermo to vol. 11 (II/2022). Download PDF