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WORLD CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY - ROME, 2024

Aim of this paper is to analyze the concept of "demonic personality", that the historian Friedric... more Aim of this paper is to analyze the concept of "demonic personality", that the historian Friedrich Meinecke presents in his renowned book The German Catastrophe. Such an analysis should bring forth the peculiar aspects of Meinecke's proposal. The paper will then discuss the position of those, like Alexander Abusch, who opposed the concept of "demonic personality". Eventually, it will be shown how the idea of a certain "demonology" of Germany nazi past is present in other historiographical and anthropological works.

Papers by Alfredo Galdi

Studi Jaspersiani XI, 2023

The aim of this article is to give an historical perspective on the interpretation of Nietzsche’s... more The aim of this article is to give an historical perspective on the interpretation of Nietzsche’s pathology. In order to do so, a comparative approach, between Karl Jaspers’ patography of Nietzsche and Gottrfried Benn’s, who, like Jaspers, was a trained physician, is presented. This comparative approach will focus on some key concepts: Nietzsche’s exceptionality, his solitude, and, of course, his illness. The paired analysis of Jaspers’ book, Nietzsche. Einfuhrung in das Verstandis seines philosophieren (1ed. 1936, 2ed. 1946, 3ed. 1949), and Benn’s speech, Nietzsche – nach funfzig Jahren (1950) is expected to provide insight not only on the development of pathography as a “genre”, but also on the cultural debate about Nietzsche in post-WWII Germany. To help in studying such a background, the voice of another important German intellectual, Thomas Mann, is taken into account. Mann, who has always been inspired by Nietzsche, held a speech about him, Nietzsches Philosophie im Lichte unserer Erfahrung, in 1947, the same year in which his book, Doktor Faustus, whose protagonist is an artist suffering from syphilis, was published.

in Bellezza. Può davvero salvare il mondo?, a cura di R. Mirelli e A. L e Moli, Doppiavoce, Napoli, pp. 173-189., 2023

Written by four authors, this paper arises from a conference held in Ischia in September 2022, co... more Written by four authors, this paper arises from a conference held in Ischia in September 2022, concerning the beauty in its philosophical aspects. A common purpose in our researches underlined the importance of the "mediation" for the discussed argument, whereas the beauty approaches the thought not only in the mode of the perception, but it also takes into account tangential developments about history, ontological symbolic, arts and human expression.

Authors and sections:

Bianca Carotenuto - Bellezza e Verità: il problema della "Darstellung" nel pensiero di Walter Benjamin.
Gael Caignard - Lo scandalo, il dubbio, l’umano. Merleau-Ponty tra arte e storia.
Alfredo Galdi - Tragicità della storia e comprensione dell’umano. Karl Jaspers e Alfred Weber.
Annamaria Pacilio - La caducità del bello e la sua natura intermedia. Note platoniche a Oskar Becker.

Archivio di Storia della Cultura XXXV, 2022

The aim of the paper is to provide a critical review of the new edition of the Die deutsche Katas... more The aim of the paper is to provide a critical review of the new edition of the Die deutsche Katastrophe, edited by Bernd Sösemann (2018). In this new edition Meinecke’s work is enriched by broad sections, in which Sösemann collects the historian’s writings and letters from the period 1930-1950. In addition, numerous accounts of the work’s international reception, from 1946 to the present, are collected there. After analyzing the main themes of the Katastrophe, the article will review the material proposed by Sösemann, highlighting the perspectives it opens on the interpretation of Meinecke’s work.

ATTI DELL'ACCADEMIA DI SCIENZE MORALI E POLITICHE, 2021

The aim of this essay is to define the category of Dämonisch in Friedrich Meinecke’s works. In o... more The aim of this essay is to define the category of Dämonisch in Friedrich Meinecke’s works. In order to do so, a critical reading of Die Idee der Staatsräson in der neueren Geschichte (1924) and of Die deutsche Katastrophe (1946) will be proposed, show- ing how the concept, first introduced to describe the naturalistic element of raison d’état, has then been used to describe Hitler’s demoniacal personality.

Book Reviews by Alfredo Galdi