DOI: 10.30443/POI2020-0010 Glosses: Gómez Dávila, Cioran, Emo Pier Alberto Porceddu Cilione One of the forms of liberation, in the practice of philosophy, in which Nietzsche’s action has been effective is that of style. After Nietzsche, philosophical writing seems to have freed itself from the need for essayistic articulation, for the demonstration of unhurried arguments, […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2020-0009 Dé-lire de l’Amour, or the Deconstruction of Philosophy: Jacques Derrida between “Posology” and “Desastrology” in The Post-Card Rosanna Chiafari What happens when thought, tradition, and philosophy share their heredity with the writing of an erotic postcard? Perhaps a disaster: yes, the section of a dis-aster is, in fact, the story of Envois’s […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2020-0008 Philosophy Journals between Politics and Culture: the Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana in 1929 Emanuele Agazzani This article aims to highlight the value of philosophical journals for the promotion and diffusion of knowledge. In twentieth-century Italian culture, philosophical journals present themselves as effective pedagogical tools: they give voice to theoretical and practical-political […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2020-0007 Communicating Philosophy, Acting in the World: Fichte’s Popular Works, the Years 1804-06 Luigi Imperato This essay deals with the Fichtian popular writings of the years 1804-06, beginning with an analysis of the relationship between popular and scientific philosophy. It identifies in the natural sense of truth on which popular writings are based. […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2020-0006 Writing about Philosophy, Writing for Philosophy: The Polyvocal Platonic Position on Writing Federica Piangerelli This contribution aims to examine the particular writing technique developed by Plato. The Athenian, in fact, “invents” a specific modus comunicandi, which makes the reading of his texts an authentic philosophical exercise. More specifically, the article proposes to […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2020-0005 Perspectival Transitions in Parmenides’ Didactic Poem Massimo Pulpito In order to look into the expressive forms of philosophy in history, investigating the methods of communication adopted at the dawn of ancient Greek thought turns out to be highly useful as well as intriguing. A crucial step in this history was constituted by […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2020-0004 Antilogy as the Sophists’ Expressive Form Stefania Giombini The article focuses on the expressive forms used by the sophists. While not adhering to the idea that the so-called sophists were a ‘movement’, characterized by univocal lines of research and intellectual production, the article tries to develop the hypothesis that a common trait could […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2020-0003 The Role of Philosophical Commentary as a Form of “Doing Philosophy” in the Platonic Academy of Athens at the Time of Proclus Michele Abbate This paper aims to examine the nature of philosophical commentary in the Neoplatonic philosophical tradition and in particular in the School of Athens at the time of Proclus. […]
DOI: 10.30443/POI2020-0002 Socrates’ “Body”. Philosophy and Transmission of Knowledge between Contrast and Ideology Editorial by Alessio Lembo and Enrico Volpe (Editorial Board Members) Download PDF
DOI: 10.30443/POI2020-0001 Philosophy and Its Form of Expression Editorial by Salvatore Lavecchia (Associate Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Udine) Download PDF