Paradosso. Rivista di filosofia

04/10/2025

Domani vi attendiamo numerosi a La Fiera delle Parole per la presentazione del volume "L’incontro con l’altro. Riflessioni filosofiche sull’alterità", a cura di Silvia Mocellin e Laura Sanò.
Una piccola anticipazione? Il saggio di Stefania Tarantino intitolato "Simone Weil pensatrice dell’alterità".

This paper investigates Simone Weil’s conception of alterity as a central axis of her ethical, political, and pedagogical thought. Drawing on her correspondence, philosophical reflections, and readings of classical tragedy – particularly Sophocles’ Electra – the analysis illuminates how Weil articulates a non-dialectical approach to otherness grounded in attention, decreation, and the renunciation of ego. Her critique of power, her mystical understanding of justice, and her pedagogical ethos converge in a vision were recognizing the anonymous presence of the other becomes an ethical imperative. Weil redefines sub- jectivity as a space of dispossession, where truth emerges in vulnerability, and responsibil- ity arises from silent, shared suffering.

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02/10/2025

Oggi vi suggeriamo il saggio di Andrea Bellantone dedicato a "istinti, non separati. L’alterità del corpo proprio come esperiBiranmetafisica in Maine de Biran"
L'articolo è contenuto nel volume "L’incontro con l’altro. Riflessioni filosofiche sull’alterità", a cura di Silvia Mocellin e Laura Sanò, che sarà presentato domenica a La Fiera delle Parole .

This contribution proposes a reflection on the self body as the site of a metaphysical experience of otherness beginning with Maine de Biran. The fundamental formula for understanding the tenor of this experience is certainly the expression: distinct, not separated. In this formula is condensed the essence of the intimate fact, of the experience of subjectivity described by Biran. The “distinct not separated” we are talking about are the two elements – heterogeneous, but constitutive – of the feeling of our personality: the willed effort and the resistance (first and foremost of the own body). In the paradox- ical intimacy of this encounter between heterogeneous, which are nevertheless always and forever linked in experience, there emerges the sense of a transcendental temporality that constitutes the fundamental trait of our being. The article reflects, in its final section, on the overcoming – and deactivation – of the opposition between activity and passivity in Biran’s latest philosophy, centered on the notion of the “third life”.

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01/10/2025

📖✨ Presentazione del fascicolo
“Istante e attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento”, La Fiera delle Parole
🎤 Intervengono: Giulia Cervato, Alberto Giacomelli, Giovanni Gurisatti
📅 Sabato 4 ottobre 2025
🕠 Ore 17.30
📍 Centro Universitario – Via Zabarella, Padova

30/09/2025

In attesa della presentazione, alla La Fiera delle Parole del volume "L’incontro con l’altro. Riflessioni filosofiche sull’alterità", a cura di Silvia Mocellin e Laura Sanò, oggi vi consigliamo il saggio di Danielle Cohen-Levinas intitolato: "Qui est l’autre? Quelques réfléxions sur la philosophie d’Emmanuel Levinas".

This essay explores the radical alterity at the core of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy, where the Other disrupts the totalizing logic of ontology and calls the subject to an ethical responsibility beyond reciprocity. Drawing on Paul Celan’s poetics of absence and the aporetic nature of encounter, Cohen-Levinas examines how the trace of the Other resists phenomenological reduction and opens a space of vulnerability, persecution, and asymmetrical responsibility. The ethical relation, for Levinas, is not grounded in mutual recognition but in the trauma of being responsible for the Other without knowledge or anticipation – an exposure that precedes subjectivity itself. The essay further analyzes the tension between ethics and politics, hospitality and justice, and emphasizes the necessity of maintaining this disjunction to resist the erasure of the face, the singularity, and the suffering of the Other in a world that seeks symmetry and order. Thinking with and after Levinas means embracing this ethical excess and its political implications.

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29/09/2025

‼️📘"L’incontro con l’altro. Riflessioni filosofiche sull’alterità", a cura di Silvia Mocellin e Laura Sanò.📘‼️

Che cosa significa incontrare l’altro? Quali forme assume l’alterità – del corpo, del volto, del genere, del pensiero – nelle esperienze fondamentali dell’esistenza? L’altro ci precede, ci sfida, ci costituisce. Pensare l’alterità significa interrogare ciò che rende possibile l’etica, la relazione, la soggettività. Attraverso prospettive che spaziano dalla fenomenologia all’etica, dalla sociologia alla decostruzione, i saggi qui raccolti mettono in luce la complessità dell’alterità come categoria filosofica viva: la tensione tra attività e passività nella relazione, l’ambivalenza del desiderio, l’attenzione come apertura, la critica del binarismo sessuale, ma anche la questione della globalizzazione e della convivenza interculturale, in un mondo che si vorrebbe più connesso eppure disuguale. L’altro non si offre mai come realtà pienamente afferrabile; piuttosto, si manifesta come presenza inquieta e mobile, capace di incrinare le nostre certezze e rimettere in gioco il nostro modo di pensare e abitare la relazione. L’incontro con l’altro, allora, non si risolve: si abita.

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Che cosa significa incontrare l’altro? Quali forme assume l’alterità – del corpo, del volto, del genere, del pensiero – nelle esperienze fondamentali dell’esistenza? L’altro ci precede, ci sfida, ci costituisce. Pensare l’alterità significa interrogare ciò che rende possibile l’et...

01/07/2025

- Per pensare radicalmente al presente e portarlo al concetto, è necessario saper cogliere quella piega segreta e inattuale (fuori dal tempo: non rivolta al passato ma, nel senso nietzscheano, anticipatrice) che porta in sé, come dice Kant, il signum prognostikon di un futuro, di un ad-veniens inteso non come un “orizzonte”, ma come un’“energia” simbolica capace di produrre un’apertura dell’esperienza verso il futuro. -

Questa citazione è tratta dal saggio conclusivo d'autore di Giacomo Marramao, intitolato "Paradossi del tempo". Lo scritto chiude il volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

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Il concetto di “tempo” rappresenta uno dei temi portanti e trasversali della riflessione filosofica occidentale. Al di là del quotidiano tempo cronologico, che scandisce il vivere ordinario e lineare, l’esperienza della temporalità rivela elementi di discontinuità ed eccezione, feconde anom...

26/06/2025

L'articolo di Emanuela Fornari parla di "Valore e Simulacro. Il tempo iperreale del Cybercapitalismo", e è raccolto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

The essay thematizes the new condition of cybercapitalism by focusing on the overcoming of the classic partitions that have governed historical capitalism (material/immaterial, work/production, use value/exchange value) as well as, on a theoretical level, the insufficiency of theoretical model of the «original situation» shared by economists and political philosophers. Economic science does not have to do with the figure of homo oeconomicus but with an original violation, contained in the asymmetry that regulates social actors. From this point of view, the essay takes up the theses formulated by Jean Baudrillard on hypercapitalism, intertwining them with the analyzes of Maurizio Lazzarato and Arjiun Appadurai on the new financial capitalism. A similar line of reflection on the concept of value is found in Marcel Mauss, who however in his analysis of the gift proposes an alter- native model of establishing the social bond.

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23/06/2025

Oggi vorremmo consigliarvi il saggio di Silvia Locatelli intitolato
"Luce Irigaray. The Time of Sexual Difference". L'articolo è contenuto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

In this paper, an attempt will be made to analyze the time of s*xuate difference, so as to understand (a) in what consists a temporal characterization that takes into account s*xuate difference, (b) which temporal dimension is proper to s*xuate difference. In particular, in order to do so, we will try to outline what s*xuate difference means in Luce Irigaray’s thought, analyzing how this term departs from the common distinction between s*x and gender, while taking into serious consideration the relationship with nature and culture. Next, we will outline patriarchal time and the time of s*xuate difference, showing how the former is unable to guarantee an authentic encounter with the other of s*xuate difference, as it does not promote a dialectical relationship between the subject and the surround- ing world. On the contrary, the time of s*xuate difference opens to a different temporal possibility, where past, present and future encounter meaningful resignifications in their mutual relationship. Finally, we will ask what is the time, in the sense of epoch, of s*xuate difference, showing its constitutively future-directed character.

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27/05/2025

L'articolo di Lorenza Bottacin Cantoni, che oggi vi consigliamo, si intitola "Blowing up kairos. Photography as a trigger for moral action in Susan Sontag", ed è raccolto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

This paper explores the role of photography as an agent that both captures and distorts reality, focusing on Susan Sontag’s reflections on the photographic medium. Inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni’s film "Blow-Up", the discussion centers on how photography influences perception, detaching observers from reality and reframing it through a lens that can be both revelatory and deceptive. Sontag’s work critiques the dual nature of photography: while it offers an illusion of timeless truth, it also transforms reality into an anesthe- tized narrative, often reducing complex experiences to consumable visuals. Photography, in Sontag’s analysis, oscillates between stasis and action, capable of either diminishing human agency by arresting kairos – the opportune moment for decision – or expanding it, triggering moral responses. The paper delves into the philosophical tension between the aesthetic beauty of photography and its ethical implications, considering how repeated exposure to images of suffering shapes collective consciousness. Through an examination of Sontag’s On Photography and Regarding the Pain of Others, the paper argues that photography, while inherently tied to death and detachment, has the potential to awaken moral awareness, thereby transforming passive observation into active engagement. Ultimately, this work investigates whether photography as “kairography” – the writing of opportune moments – can empower viewers to confront and act upon reality rather than merely aestheticizing it.

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22/05/2025

L'articolo scritto da Monica Gorza esamina "L’instant de l’initiative, «force du présent» chez Paul Ricœur". Il saggio è raccolto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

According to Ricœur, the cultural experience of time takes shape in language. More precisely, this experience begins with a lamentation that man utters when cosmic time breaches lived time. Firstly, this article aims to present Ricœur’s conception of time as “time with a present” (subjective time in the soul), “time without a present” (objective time of the cosmos), and the “third time” of the calendar. Secondly, this contribution analyzes Ricœur’s reflection on biblical lamentation as a speech act capable of converging a historical (communal) present and a living (individual) present in the incarnate word. Thirdly, the article focuses on Ricœur’s proposal to introduce the concept of initiative as a category of action – both personal and social – capable of highlighting the “force of the present”. By counterbalancing human lamentation in the present moment, only initiative allows man to begin anew, together with others, without reducing himself to being a victim of his own time.

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20/05/2025

Chiara Pesaresi firma un saggio intitolato "La question du temps chez Patocka. Historicité, liberté, art", contenuto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

This article explores the question of time in Jan Patocˇka’s thought, aiming to highlight the intrinsic connection between the historicity of existence, the experience of freedom, and artistic creation. In the first section, Patocˇka’s critique of objective or spatialized time will be examined, followed by an analysis of his shift towards understanding time as a horizon. However, this notion of time will also be shown to be insufficient for fully accounting for the historicity of human existence, which involves a rupture with the given and an explicit relation to transcendence, thereby opening the path to the experience of freedom. Finally, art will be presented as the privileged space for the manifestation of this human freedom. Twentieth-century art, in particular, is seen by Patocˇka as a space of protest against supercivilization and the expansion of instrumental logic into every sphere of human life.

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16/05/2025

Il nostro consiglio di lettura è, per oggi, il saggio di Jacopo Ceccon intitolato "Éclair foudroyant! La duplice forma dell’istante in Jean Paul Sartre". L'articolo è contenuto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

The essay analyzes the dual nature of the instant in Jean-Paul Sartre, understood as a passive and active moment. In the passive form, the instant manifests itself through “nausea”, which reveals to the subject the absurdity of existence and imprisons him in the facticity of the past, without yet pushing him into action. This is the case of Antoine Roquentin, main character of the famous novel “Nausea”. The instant becomes active when the individual consciously chooses: in that moment, the subject breaks the cycle of repetition and takes his own destiny into his own hands. This «éclair foudroyant» allows the subject to project himself towards the future, transforming his own life from a condition imposed by the other into a free and responsible project. Sartre, therefore, conceives the instant as the fulcrum between passivity and action, where freedom is achieved in the moment in which one decides to be what one is not yet.

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