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Papers by Tania Checchi
Revista De Filosofia, 2005
Revista De Filosofia, 1999
Blog L' Èmissaire, 2023
That mythical time works through cycles is such a common place knowledge that practically nothing... more That mythical time works through cycles is such a common place knowledge that practically nothing more is said about this fact beyond passing comments about its patent contrast with the Judeo-Christian linear conception of time that is nowadays also a given. With the help of Jacqueline De Romilly and Charles Legal, we would like to show that this circularity is not indebted to the natural cycles but to the logic of vengeance sanctioned by the sacred as René Girard has posited.
Le Blog L' 'Emissaire, 2023
Avec l'aide de J. De Romilly et Charles Segal, nous voulons montrer que la circularité du mythe n... more Avec l'aide de J. De Romilly et Charles Segal, nous voulons montrer que la circularité du mythe n'est pas le résultat des cycles naturels mais de la logique de la vengeance marqué par le sacré tel que René Girard nous a apprendre. En lisant la tragédie grecque comme véhicule de une nouvelle notion du temps, on veux mettre en lumière son lucidité mimétique.
Michigan State University Press eBooks, Jul 1, 2024
The Rise of Mimetic Theory / Giornale di Filosofia vol.3 No.1, 2022
Stucchi, M., & Checchi, T. (2022). Introduction. Giornale Di Filosofia, 3(1)., 2022
Half a century ago, in May 1972, La Violence et le Sacré was printed for the first time by the Fr... more Half a century ago, in May 1972, La Violence et le Sacré was printed for
the first time by the French publisher Éditions Bernard Grasset. Although
that year lies approximately halfway through Girard’s long and productive life (1923-2015), the work probably represents the finest theoretical
contribution born of his brilliant mind. The pillars of what would be
known later as “mimetic theory” find here their most convincing illustration, which was never abjured or changed, in its fundamental guidelines, by his creator. Therefore, the present volume...
Imagining the Other, 2023
Part Two illustrates the politics of migration, looking at particular problems and case studies: ... more Part Two illustrates the politics of migration, looking at particular problems and case studies: problems of migration between Africa and Europe, within Africa, in Latin America, and finally between the Islamic World and Europe. Part Three widens the scope and looks at the imagination of the other between exclusion and adoration. Part One starts out by Jean-Marc Bourdin claiming: We are all migrants. Employing Mimetic Theory, Bourdin analyzes the various desires that lie behind migration, and concludes that "humans have been migrating since they were humans" and "as long as a terra incognita appeared in sight". Politics should come to terms with this. Beginning from a meditation on the Mona Lisa, Wilhelm Guggenberger argues that the problems of migration would be much easier to handle if there were a real encounter with the migrants, rather than mere imagination about them. This would not end all conflicts, but it would offer "the possibility of discovering in the other a real person in common life practice instead of just perceiving him or her as an image that triggers a pre-programmed pattern of reactive behavior." Andreas Müller provides an analysis of the legal framework for migration and asylum. Starting with the Geneva Refugee Convention, Müller critically appraises the common European asylum system and the problematic attempts to defend the EU's borders. He draws some interesting conclusions for European identity: "European identity remains frail, to say the least. And nowhere does this become as clearly and painfully manifest as in Europe's dysfunctionality with respect to the Common Asylum System." The different approach to Ukrainians fleeing the war in their country, might be seen as a sign of hope, but is not without problems either. Matthew Packer approaches the problem from another discipline: literary studies. Analyzing the depiction of mimesis and migration in Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Sympathizer and Mohsin Hamid's novel Exit West, as well as in Ai Weiwei's movie Human Flow, he argues "that the migrant crisis is a mimetic crisis, on a global scale, and that this hypervisibility and the work of writers ... are helping us recognize it as such, even making it unavoidable as a topic." Part two is opened by Gilles Reckinger and his insights into Trans-Mediterranean Migration and the Exploitation of African Mobile Workers in Southern Italy. Migrants from Africa are often declared to be inferior, and this inferiorization is used to deny "access to the fundamental rights of citizenship to non-nationals", sees "at play" today both in mass media and political spectacles. António Machuco Rosa considers Mimetic Desire, Exclusion, Polarization in Social Digital Networks. He wants to "show how, due to their technological design, based on intersubjective relationships created by buttons such as 'Like', 'Following', 'Share', etc., the new digital social networks create conditions for the proliferation of pseudo-narcissistic and pseudo-masochistic behaviours." Furthermore, he
Forum Philosophicum
n order to disclose possible affinities between the oeuvres of Emmanuel Levinas and René Girard t... more n order to disclose possible affinities between the oeuvres of Emmanuel Levinas and René Girard that run deeper than both the apparently opposite quarters in which they deploy their thought—difference and sameness—and their patently shared view—an ethical concern for victims— their analogue account of the mythical dynamics of undifferentiation should be explored. Due to their very similar endeavor—to pinpoint the circumstances in which mythical violence arises—Levinas’s notion of the il y a as a neutral and saturated field of forces and Girard’s description of the final paroxysm of the mimetic crisis can be equated with very instructive results. Furthermore, because both instances are linked to the primeval situation in which the subject as such emerges, these authors’ descriptions reinforce each other and provide us with a critical account of a realm that should be transcended—the domain of the violent sacred in which force becomes the ultimate criteria—lest we run the risk of a to...
Revista de Filosofía / Universidad Iberoamericana, 2007
La filosofia de Hitler es primaria. Sin embargo, las potencias primitivas que en ella se consuman... more La filosofia de Hitler es primaria. Sin embargo, las potencias primitivas que en ella se consuman hacen estallar toda fraseologia miserable bajo el impulso de una forma elemental. Reavivan la nostalgia secreta del alma alemana. Mas que un contagio o una locura, el hitlerismo es un despertar de sentimientos elementales. Por lo tanto, y sin que esto deje de entranar un tremendo peligro, el hitlerismo resulta interesante filosoficamente, pues los sentimientos elementales encierran una filosofia. Expresan la actitud primera de un alma ante el conjunto de lo real y frente a su propio destino. Dichos sentimientos predeterminan o prefiguran el sentido de la aventura que el alma correra en el mundo. La filosofia del hitlerismo desborda asi la filosofia de los hitlerianos. Pone en cuestion los propios principios de una civilizacion. El conflicto no tiene lugar unicamente entre el liberalismo y el hitlerismo. El propio cristianismo se ve amenazado, a pesar de los miramientos o de los Concorda...
Revista de Filosofía Universidad Iberoamericana , 2005
Revista De Filosofia no. 117, 2006
Sileno Variaciones Sobre Arte Y Pensamiento, 1997
Revista De Filosofia no. 107, 2003
Revista de Filosofía (Universidad Iberoamericana)
Books by Tania Checchi
Para Emmanuel Levinas, la fenomenología, llevada hasta sus últimas consecuencias, no puede sino, ... more Para Emmanuel Levinas, la fenomenología, llevada hasta sus últimas consecuencias, no puede sino, a partir de sus fisuras y silencios, de su reconocimiento de la imposibilidad de una tematización exhaustiva, poner al descubierto las condiciones que hacen posible la pregunta por el sentido de la ética. Sentido exterior a todo discurso que se pretenda definitivo y busque cerrar sobre sí la significación de cada existencia particular. Exterioridad esta, la de un rostro cuya fragilidad e indigencia rompen con nuestra familiaridad mundana para erigirnos, aún a nuestro pesar, como sujetos responsables. Esta es la trayectoria en pos de la sensibilidad y su vulnerabilidad irrevocable a la que se aboca Levinas siguiendo los pasos y desandando también el camino de Husserl, Merleau-Ponty y Heidegger.
Revista De Filosofia, 2005
Revista De Filosofia, 1999
Blog L' Èmissaire, 2023
That mythical time works through cycles is such a common place knowledge that practically nothing... more That mythical time works through cycles is such a common place knowledge that practically nothing more is said about this fact beyond passing comments about its patent contrast with the Judeo-Christian linear conception of time that is nowadays also a given. With the help of Jacqueline De Romilly and Charles Legal, we would like to show that this circularity is not indebted to the natural cycles but to the logic of vengeance sanctioned by the sacred as René Girard has posited.
Le Blog L' 'Emissaire, 2023
Avec l'aide de J. De Romilly et Charles Segal, nous voulons montrer que la circularité du mythe n... more Avec l'aide de J. De Romilly et Charles Segal, nous voulons montrer que la circularité du mythe n'est pas le résultat des cycles naturels mais de la logique de la vengeance marqué par le sacré tel que René Girard nous a apprendre. En lisant la tragédie grecque comme véhicule de une nouvelle notion du temps, on veux mettre en lumière son lucidité mimétique.
Michigan State University Press eBooks, Jul 1, 2024
The Rise of Mimetic Theory / Giornale di Filosofia vol.3 No.1, 2022
Stucchi, M., & Checchi, T. (2022). Introduction. Giornale Di Filosofia, 3(1)., 2022
Half a century ago, in May 1972, La Violence et le Sacré was printed for the first time by the Fr... more Half a century ago, in May 1972, La Violence et le Sacré was printed for
the first time by the French publisher Éditions Bernard Grasset. Although
that year lies approximately halfway through Girard’s long and productive life (1923-2015), the work probably represents the finest theoretical
contribution born of his brilliant mind. The pillars of what would be
known later as “mimetic theory” find here their most convincing illustration, which was never abjured or changed, in its fundamental guidelines, by his creator. Therefore, the present volume...
Imagining the Other, 2023
Part Two illustrates the politics of migration, looking at particular problems and case studies: ... more Part Two illustrates the politics of migration, looking at particular problems and case studies: problems of migration between Africa and Europe, within Africa, in Latin America, and finally between the Islamic World and Europe. Part Three widens the scope and looks at the imagination of the other between exclusion and adoration. Part One starts out by Jean-Marc Bourdin claiming: We are all migrants. Employing Mimetic Theory, Bourdin analyzes the various desires that lie behind migration, and concludes that "humans have been migrating since they were humans" and "as long as a terra incognita appeared in sight". Politics should come to terms with this. Beginning from a meditation on the Mona Lisa, Wilhelm Guggenberger argues that the problems of migration would be much easier to handle if there were a real encounter with the migrants, rather than mere imagination about them. This would not end all conflicts, but it would offer "the possibility of discovering in the other a real person in common life practice instead of just perceiving him or her as an image that triggers a pre-programmed pattern of reactive behavior." Andreas Müller provides an analysis of the legal framework for migration and asylum. Starting with the Geneva Refugee Convention, Müller critically appraises the common European asylum system and the problematic attempts to defend the EU's borders. He draws some interesting conclusions for European identity: "European identity remains frail, to say the least. And nowhere does this become as clearly and painfully manifest as in Europe's dysfunctionality with respect to the Common Asylum System." The different approach to Ukrainians fleeing the war in their country, might be seen as a sign of hope, but is not without problems either. Matthew Packer approaches the problem from another discipline: literary studies. Analyzing the depiction of mimesis and migration in Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Sympathizer and Mohsin Hamid's novel Exit West, as well as in Ai Weiwei's movie Human Flow, he argues "that the migrant crisis is a mimetic crisis, on a global scale, and that this hypervisibility and the work of writers ... are helping us recognize it as such, even making it unavoidable as a topic." Part two is opened by Gilles Reckinger and his insights into Trans-Mediterranean Migration and the Exploitation of African Mobile Workers in Southern Italy. Migrants from Africa are often declared to be inferior, and this inferiorization is used to deny "access to the fundamental rights of citizenship to non-nationals", sees "at play" today both in mass media and political spectacles. António Machuco Rosa considers Mimetic Desire, Exclusion, Polarization in Social Digital Networks. He wants to "show how, due to their technological design, based on intersubjective relationships created by buttons such as 'Like', 'Following', 'Share', etc., the new digital social networks create conditions for the proliferation of pseudo-narcissistic and pseudo-masochistic behaviours." Furthermore, he
Forum Philosophicum
n order to disclose possible affinities between the oeuvres of Emmanuel Levinas and René Girard t... more n order to disclose possible affinities between the oeuvres of Emmanuel Levinas and René Girard that run deeper than both the apparently opposite quarters in which they deploy their thought—difference and sameness—and their patently shared view—an ethical concern for victims— their analogue account of the mythical dynamics of undifferentiation should be explored. Due to their very similar endeavor—to pinpoint the circumstances in which mythical violence arises—Levinas’s notion of the il y a as a neutral and saturated field of forces and Girard’s description of the final paroxysm of the mimetic crisis can be equated with very instructive results. Furthermore, because both instances are linked to the primeval situation in which the subject as such emerges, these authors’ descriptions reinforce each other and provide us with a critical account of a realm that should be transcended—the domain of the violent sacred in which force becomes the ultimate criteria—lest we run the risk of a to...
Revista de Filosofía / Universidad Iberoamericana, 2007
La filosofia de Hitler es primaria. Sin embargo, las potencias primitivas que en ella se consuman... more La filosofia de Hitler es primaria. Sin embargo, las potencias primitivas que en ella se consuman hacen estallar toda fraseologia miserable bajo el impulso de una forma elemental. Reavivan la nostalgia secreta del alma alemana. Mas que un contagio o una locura, el hitlerismo es un despertar de sentimientos elementales. Por lo tanto, y sin que esto deje de entranar un tremendo peligro, el hitlerismo resulta interesante filosoficamente, pues los sentimientos elementales encierran una filosofia. Expresan la actitud primera de un alma ante el conjunto de lo real y frente a su propio destino. Dichos sentimientos predeterminan o prefiguran el sentido de la aventura que el alma correra en el mundo. La filosofia del hitlerismo desborda asi la filosofia de los hitlerianos. Pone en cuestion los propios principios de una civilizacion. El conflicto no tiene lugar unicamente entre el liberalismo y el hitlerismo. El propio cristianismo se ve amenazado, a pesar de los miramientos o de los Concorda...
Revista de Filosofía Universidad Iberoamericana , 2005
Revista De Filosofia no. 117, 2006
Sileno Variaciones Sobre Arte Y Pensamiento, 1997
Revista De Filosofia no. 107, 2003
Revista de Filosofía (Universidad Iberoamericana)
Para Emmanuel Levinas, la fenomenología, llevada hasta sus últimas consecuencias, no puede sino, ... more Para Emmanuel Levinas, la fenomenología, llevada hasta sus últimas consecuencias, no puede sino, a partir de sus fisuras y silencios, de su reconocimiento de la imposibilidad de una tematización exhaustiva, poner al descubierto las condiciones que hacen posible la pregunta por el sentido de la ética. Sentido exterior a todo discurso que se pretenda definitivo y busque cerrar sobre sí la significación de cada existencia particular. Exterioridad esta, la de un rostro cuya fragilidad e indigencia rompen con nuestra familiaridad mundana para erigirnos, aún a nuestro pesar, como sujetos responsables. Esta es la trayectoria en pos de la sensibilidad y su vulnerabilidad irrevocable a la que se aboca Levinas siguiendo los pasos y desandando también el camino de Husserl, Merleau-Ponty y Heidegger.