DOI: 10.30443/POI2019-0022 Review of Natoli, S. (2019). Il fine della politica. Dalla «teologia del regno» al «governo della contingenza». Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 120 pp. by Fiorenza Manzo Download PDF
No. 5, (2/2019) – Philosophy and Work: Then and Now Download PDF EDITORIAL Work: a Transient Category? Francesco Piro (Scientific Director) OVERVIEW Brief History of the Ambiguity of the Concept of Labour Giuseppe Palermo (Editorial Board Member) CONTRIBUTIONS Hypertrophy of Work. Some Notes on Work and Recognition Tiziana Faitini The Ludicization of Work and the […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2019-0021 Review of Mouffe, C. (2019). La sfida del populismo (F.S. Festa, Ed.). Roma: Castelvecchi, 56 pp. by Gianmichele Tuozzo Download PDF
DOI: 10.30443/POI2019-0020 Review of Calogero, G. (2018). L’abbiccì della democrazia e altri scritti (R. Trombelli, Ed.). Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica, 194 pp. by Raffaele Ciccone Download PDF
DOI: 10.30443/POI2019-0019 Eleatica for Schools. The Paradox between Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy Francesca Gambetti Eleatica for Schools: First-hand account of the Eleatica project, an international meeting for studies in Eleatic philosophy, held biannually in Ascea-Velia, Italy. Download PDF
DOI: 10.30443/POI2019-0018 The Virtue of Industry and the Instrumentalization of Work Elliot Rossiter This paper explores the development of changing conceptions of the virtue of industry between the medieval and early modern periods of Western Europe. The distinctive contribution of this paper is to show how a teleological concept of industry, where work is […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2019-0017 Work as Language: Bianciardi vs. Rossi-Landi Angelo Nizza There is an Italian philosophy of work that sees in language the novel element of contemporary capitalism. In this article I would like to show how the concept of “linguistic work” is the main issue of a research that mixes philosophical knowledge with other fields such […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2019-0016 Labour Unveiled: Identity, Type of Work, and (In)Dependence in 16th-17th England and Locke’s Political Theory Fabio Mengali My research aims to investigate the multi-layered concept of work in John Locke’s philosophy, with regard to subjective freedom, political agency, and citizenship rights, so as to delineate a framework of interpretation that may foster […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2019-0015 The Ludicization of Work and the Principle of Performance: The Topicality of Herbert Marcuse Luca Baldassarre This paper aims to investigate the current interconnections between play and work, as an outcome of technological development, starting from Herbert Marcuse’s early view of labour. In a 1933 essay entitled “On the Philosophical Foundation of the […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2019-0014 Hypertrophy of Work. Some Notes on Work and Recognition Tiziana Faitini This article contributes to mapping the contemporary Italian semantic field of “work” (lavoro), and focuses on some aspects of indetermination and hypertrophy that characterize this concept. In particular, I discuss the overly high expectations about work (meant as a socially organized […]