No. 8, I/2021 – Feminist Philosophies. What of the Night? Download PDF EDITORIAL Feminisms in Comparison Giusi Furnari-Luvarà OVERVIEW Identities Under Construction. Thinking the Difference Against Fear of the Dark Fiorenza Manzo CONTRIBUTIONS Anarchafeminist Manifesta Chiara Bottici Sexed Political Bodies: From the King’s Body to the Queen’s Somatechnics Carlotta Cossutta Difference, Subalternity, Self-Determination: On the […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5715037 Review of Mazzone, S. (2019). Generose utopie. Il giornalismo politico di Guido Dorso (1919 – 1925). Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica, 219 pp. by Raffaele Ciccone Download PDF
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5714969 Review of Cocco, M. (2020). Una Cina “perfetta”. Roma: Carocci, 203 pp. by Giuseppe Palermo Dowload PDF
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5714893 Review of Centrone, B. (2021). La seconda «polis». Introduzione alle «Leggi» di Platone. Roma: Carocci Editore, 346 pp. by Chiara Sessa Download PDF
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5714737 Italian Philosophy Has a Gender Disparity Problem by Federica Berdini, Laura Caponetto, Vera Tripodi F. Berdini (Université de Montréal), L. Caponetto (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University), and V. Tripodi (University of Milan), representing the newly born Swip-Italia, illustrate the Society’s activities from its birth (2018) to the present-day (2021) and the activities planned for […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5714726 Thinking without a banister. Hannah Arendt and Tradition by Rosalia Peluso The article analyzes the concept of “Tradition” in Hannah Arendt’s thought according to three specific interpretations. First, Arendt uses the term as a diagnosis of the present time, that is, as a loss of tradition denounced widely in her works as a […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5714547 Comparing American Feminisms. The Mystique of Femininity Between “Second Wave” and Contemporary Mainstream by Giulia Longoni This article analyzes The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan, to propose a comparison between “second wave” American feminism and its contemporary neoliberal variation. Following Catherine Rottenberg’s definition of neoliberal feminism as that phenomenon which has affected the […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5714520 In Favour of an Ontology of Sexual Difference. Luce Irigaray on Mimesis and Fluidity by Niki Hadikoesoemo This article discusses the notion of the fluidity of sexual identity in light of Luce Irigaray’s account of sexual difference. I examine the historicity of sexual identity fluidity in relation to femininity as discussed in Irigaray’s […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5714489 Programming the Future: Epigenetics, Normative Fictions, and Maternal Bodies by Kevin Ryan We have apparently transitioned to what has been described as a “postgenomic era”, and the spectre of biology is again haunting philosophy and the social sciences, but not necessarily as it has figured in the past. The emerging field of epigenetic […]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5714469 Difference, Subalternity, Self-Determination: On the Subversive Character of Feminisms in the Global Present by Marianna Esposito This paper takes its cue from the elimination of sexual difference in the modern universal: an anachronism that produces permanent obstacles to the realization of female citizenship. The analysis shows how the obstacle of atemporality for women’s […]