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AM. Art + Media/AM. Art + Media, Apr 15, 2024

Quodlibet eBooks, Nov 19, 2020

Lecture notes in morphogenesis, 2020

Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, Dec 15, 2022

Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis, 2020

Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, 2021

Introduction to special issue "Ricoeur and the Problem of Space"

Introduzione al numero 10 "Sistema e liberta. Razionalita e improvvisazione tra filosofia, a... more Introduzione al numero 10 "Sistema e liberta. Razionalita e improvvisazione tra filosofia, arte e pratiche umane".

Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, 2021

The aim of this article is to show how a Ricœurian approach to space and place is likely to raise... more The aim of this article is to show how a Ricœurian approach to space and place is likely to raise issues about geography and even cartography, rather than just ontological topology in a Heideggerian fashion. Two steps will lead towards that conclusion: the first concerns the role of Ricœur’s long détour in the transition from a transcendental—therefore empty—notion of place to the concrete plurality of places, which turns them into matters for interpretation; the second shows how the task of interpreting of places implies distanciation and even objectification, through which they are constituted as objects of scientific and critical investigation. Maps will be introduced at that point as specific interpretations of places, halfway between text and images, between the subject and the object, and between science and art.

AM. Art + Media/AM. Art + Media, Apr 15, 2024

Quodlibet eBooks, Nov 19, 2020

Lecture notes in morphogenesis, 2020

Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, Dec 15, 2022

Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis, 2020

Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, 2021

Introduction to special issue "Ricoeur and the Problem of Space"

Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, 2021

This article outlines the evolution of the concept of landscape from an idealistic and dualistic ... more This article outlines the evolution of the concept of landscape from an idealistic and dualistic framework to a more integrated and holistic approach in Italian philosophy of the twentieth century. I will single out Benedetto Croce's perspective on landscape and Luigi Pareyson's aesthetic theory as the two poles of such a course. On the one hand, Croce's name is associated with the first great Italian law devoted to the protection of landscape, but his conception of landscape still stems from a dualistic understanding of nature and culture, art and science. On the other hand, while Pareyson has never expressly addressed the issue of landscape, his philosophical aesthetics provides useful elements to radically rethink landscape in non-idealistic terms. In the present work I will discuss some of these elements, namely, Pareyson's conception of physical matter, the role played by wonder in the process of knowledge, and the contemplative dimension of aesthetic appreciation.

This article aims to overcome the representational conceptions of landscape in or-der to recover ... more This article aims to overcome the representational conceptions of landscape in or-der to recover its substantive character. Landscape appears as a semantically am-biguous and tensive concept in both conceptualizations, but if the representational approaches draw on the dualisms of modernity (between nature and culture, sub-ject and object, art and sciences) and understands landscape in terms of a spiritual / artistic / visual construction opposed to nature, a substantive approach towards landscape emphasizes the continuity between the natural and the anthropic and, without denying the constructive potential of subjective or cultural perceptions, endows the geographical forms with the capacity to produce meanings, con-straints and socio-political options by means of their aesthetic qualities. The article is divided in five paragraphs: the first four discuss different kinds of representa-tional attitude towards landscape elaborated during the XX century (the cognitive, the idealistic, and the critic approach), while in the fifth paragraph I will pin down some elements to build an integrally substantive conception of landscape, opening the path for further research developments.

The morphological account of landscape aims to overcome the contrast between an objectivist/scien... more The morphological account of landscape aims to overcome the contrast between an objectivist/scientific account of space and the more qualitative/subjective account of place. It does so by actualizing the notion of landscape, which endows a materiality often overlooked in contemporary spatial theories. In this paper, I will discuss what has been called the 'space-place conundrum' by referring mostly to the human geography contemporary debate on space and place. In the following, I will retrieve Carl Sauer's morphological conception of landscape as an alternative framework aimed at rephrasing both the concepts of space and place. Landscape must be freed from the cage of the aesthetic gaze so that it can be understood as a lived and dynamic complex of interacting forms that encompass the embodied subject. In the end, I will outline the main characteristics of a morphological conception of landscape, paving the way for further inquiries.

ERRS - Etudes Ricoeuriennes, 2021

The aim of this article is to show how a Ricoeurian approach to space and place is likely to rais... more The aim of this article is to show how a Ricoeurian approach to space and place is likely to raise issues about geography and even cartography, rather than just ontological topology in a Heideggerian fashion. Two steps will lead towards that conclusion: the first concerns the role of Ricoeur's long détour in the transition from a transcendental-therefore empty-notion of place to the concrete plurality of places, which turns them into matters for interpretation; the second shows how the task of interpreting of places implies distanciation and even objectification, through which they are constituted as objects of scientific and critical investigation. Maps will be introduced at that point as specific interpretations of places, halfway between text and images, between the subject and the object, and between science and art.

by Alessandro Bertinetto, Marco Ivaldo, Mirio Cosottini, Roberto Zanetti, Davide Sisto, Silvia Ferrari, Denise Vincenti, Neri Pollastri, Alessandro De Cesaris, Antonio Vernacotola Gualtieri D'Ocre, Paolo Furia, Fabiano Araújo Costa, Marco Rampazzo Bazzan, and roberto franzini tibaldeo

Sistema e libertà. Razionalità e improvvisazione tra filosofia, arte e pratiche umane., Dec 29, 2015

La dialectique entre idéologie et utopie apparait etre un complement décisif de la pensée de Rico... more La dialectique entre idéologie et utopie apparait etre un complement décisif de la pensée de Ricoeur sur la reconnaissance. Elle permet de rapprocher les intuitions du philosophe à ceux des exposants de la théorie critique et en général des sciences sociales.

AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, Culture & Communication

Today, there is an emerging interest for the potential role of hermeneutics in reflecting on the ... more Today, there is an emerging interest for the potential role of hermeneutics in reflecting on the practices related to digital technologies and their consequences. Nonetheless, such an interest has not yet given
rise to a unitary approach nor to a shared debate. The primary goal of this paper is to map and synthesize the different existing perspectives in order to pave the way for an open discussion on the topic. The article is developed in two steps. In the first section, the authors analyze digital
hermeneutics “in theory” by confronting and systematizing the existing literature. In particular, they stress three main distinctions among the approaches: 1) between “methodological” and “ontological” digital hermeneutics; 2) between data- and text-oriented digital hermeneutics and 3) between“quantitative” and “qualitative” credos in digital hermeneutics. In the second section, they consider digital hermeneutics “in action”, by critically analyzing the uses of digital data (notably tweets) for
studying a classical object such as the political opinion. In the conclusion, the authors will pave the way to an ontological turn in digital hermeneutics. Most of the article is devoted to the methodological issue of interpreting with digital machines. The main task of an ontological digital hermeneutics would consist instead in wondering if it is legitimate, and eventually to which extent, to speak of digital technologies, or at least of some of them, as interpretational machines.

Suite à la disparition de Marcel Hénaff et afin de lui rendre hommage, le Fonds Ricœur propose d... more Suite à la disparition de Marcel Hénaff et afin de lui rendre hommage, le Fonds Ricœur propose différentes traductions du texte écrit par le philosophe et offert au Fonds Ricœur à l'occasion de la campagne de financement de 2016.

La filosofia della geografia è un terreno ancora ampiamente inesplorato. Si propone qui un primo ... more La filosofia della geografia è un terreno ancora ampiamente inesplorato. Si propone qui un primo approccio di carattere fenomenologico.

conference website: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/events/ricoeur-2020

1. Ricoeur and human geography: a promising dialogue. Paul Ricoeur and geography have rarely cros... more 1. Ricoeur and human geography: a promising dialogue. Paul Ricoeur and geography have rarely crossed their paths. Despite Ricoeur's undeniable commitment to social sciences, his thought did not often touch issues connected to geography, its tasks and objectives as a science, its main concepts and its epistemology. There are philosophical reasons behind that. In fact, it is hardly disputable that almost every trait of Ricoeur's philosophical thought revolves around time rather than space: from his criticisms towards structuralism in linguistics and cultural anthropology to his theory of narration, from his endeavor of retrieving consciousness from radical deconstruction to his later work on memory and recognition. In all his writings time is treated as filled with life, social meanings and agency: it is time that includes and produces both harmonies and dissonances of the lifeworld. The highest degree of complexity and the deepest layering of meanings are attributed to time. On the contrary, for the most part of Ricoeur's works, space seems devoid of philosophical interest-or, at least, it seems in itself less complex and interesting. Space mainly works as the mere backdrop for human action: it is, of course, a precondition for the temporal processes, but the world's breath of life comes from time, not space. Space receives life from time, considered to be the principle of both ontological and phenomenological movements.