Giornale di Filosofia

12/06/2024

Vi aspettiamo lunedì 17 alle 17 presso Villa Mirafiori! 🦉

22/03/2024

🔴 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Call For Abstracts: Giornale di Filosofia, Vol 8, No 2, 2024

Title: The Historical Dimension of Human Existence. Philosophical Perspectives from Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Narrative Approaches, and Post-Colonial Studies

Editors: Daniele Nuccilli, Emiliano Trizio

Submission Deadline: Long Abstract (1,000 words max): 15 June 2024. Articles (40,000 characters max): 15 October 2024.

The way our history matters to us is a defining trait of our identity. It affects our individual and the collective perspective on the world and on those who inhabit it. Furthermore, there are global, traumatic times, when the collective view of historical events and its reinterpretation become a matter of intellectual responsibility. Especially in today’s globalized and digitalized world, history filters daily into our lives, often shaped by artificial and ready-made narratives. Thus, we find ourselves not only constrained by our individual past, but also entangled in one of the many possible readings of our collective past. In so far as the globalized world in which we live makes the encounter among different cultures inevitable, it also necessarily puts different views and different uses of the past side by side, whether the past of a given community or that of humankind in its entirety. These various perspectives, however, do not differ only, nor primarily, as to what we normally call “historical facts”, neither do they disagree, in a somewhat scientific way, merely about the interpretation of these facts. Arguably, the most significant differences across times, cultures, and philosophical perspectives concern the very way in which history matters for a given society, or, in other words, the modality in which the form of awareness of the past informs the present and the future prospects of those who share it. In this sense, one could claim that the history of a community is endowed with an enormous power on its present, a power that takes up different forms depending on the cultural context.
The aim of this issue is to offer a multidisciplinary approach to describe and understand the historical dimension of human existence and its countless implications. Possible topics may include:

- Historical dimension of human beings
- Historicity and human existence
- Experience, perception, narration of the past
- Philosophy of history
- Historicity and perception
- Individual and collective memory
- History and life-world
- Phenomenology and history
- History and embodiment
- Post-colonial approach to history
- Hermeneutics and history
- History and cultural anthropology
- Cognitivist dimension of historical narrative
- Narrative approach to history
- History and histories

Abstracts and papers will be accepted in French, Italian, German, and Spanish, even though English is highly recommended. Linguistic revision, if required, will be the authors’ responsibility. For more info, details, and abstract submission, please contact: [email protected].

12/03/2024

"Optima indagatrix phylosophia est": Boccaccio and Philosophy

Last days to submit an abstract for this Call!

20/01/2024

🔴 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Call For Abstracts: Giornale di Filosofia, Vol 9, No 1, 2025

Title: “Optima indagatrix phylosophia est”. Boccaccio and Philosophy.

Editors: S. Barsella, O. Holmes, and M. Papio

Submission Deadline: Long Abstract (1,000 words max): 15 March 2024. Articles (40,000 characters max): 1 September 2024.

The life and works of the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio unfolded at the nexus of a number of cultural and intellectual trends that were coming to fruition in his time, especially in the context of contemporary philosophical debates and innovations in religious, artistic, and literary practices, and of the early humanists’ recovery of and enthusiasm for classical thought. What was Boccaccio’s perspective on these developments? What texts did
he read? What theoretical texts can help us read him? Does he have a place in the history of philosophy? We are interested in receiving abstracts on Boccaccio’s relationship to the philosophical traditions and breaks with tradition of his day, as well as interpretations of
Boccaccio’s works that are informed by more recent developments in critical theory and philosophy.

Possible topics may include:
The Works: Boccaccio’s Use of Philosophical Ideas
- Natural Philosophy (including Science and Medicine)
- Ethics or Moral Philosophy
- Metaphysics or Cosmogony
- Logic and Rhetoric
- Hermeneutics: Boccaccio and Interpretation.
Boccaccio’s Library: Sources in Classical, Patristic, and Medieval Thought
Boccaccio, the Scholastics, and the Islamic Commentators
Theological Poetics / Poetic Theology
Philosophy of the Literary Text
Modern Theoretical Perspectives on Boccaccio
Affective and Cognitive approaches to Boccaccio
Boccaccio and Humanism
Boccaccio and Justice
Boccaccio and Psychology

Abstracts and papers will be accepted in French, Italian, German, and Spanish, even though English is highly recommended. Linguistic revision, if required, will be authors’ responsibility.

For more info, details, and abstract submission, please contact: [email protected].

08/01/2024

📕 RITORNO A LUKÁCS. L'EREDITÀ FILOSOFICA E POLITICA DI UN CLASSICO

Il nuovo numero del Giornale di Filosofia è dedicato a un classico del pensiero novecentesco: György Lukács. Al suo interno potete trovare numerosi testi del filosofo inediti in italiano, alcuni di carattere autobiografico e altri di critica letteraria.

Ringraziamo il curatore Antonino Infranca e tutti gli studiosi che hanno collaborato - con articoli, recensioni e traduzioni - a questa pubblicazione.

Il numero è come sempre disponibile in Open Access sul nostro sito: https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/giornale-filosofia/issue/view/210

09/11/2023

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS EXTENSION

Telling the Untold - David Lynch Theater
Editors: Adolfo Fattori, Maria Poulaki, Enrico Redaelli

New deadline: 22 November 2023

19/10/2023

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Telling the Untold - David Lynch's Theater

There is time until the first of November to send an abstract for our new call. Here you will find our call: https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/giornale-filosofia/call-for-abstract

15/09/2023

🔴 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Call For Abstracts: Giornale di Filosofia, Vol 6, No 1, 2024

Title: Telling the Untold. David Lynch’s Theater

Editors: Adolfo Fattori, Maria Poulaki, Enrico Redaelli

Submission Deadline: Long Abstract (1,000 words max): 1 November 2023

David Lynch is not just one of the most relevant filmmakers ever. He is above all an all-rounded artist who has always strived to investigate the expressive limits of representation and narrative, especially with regards to how the world is shaped by unconscious desires. This volume intends to collect papers addressing – with cutting-edge perspective but also with theoretical accuracy – Lynch’s enigmatic innovations in respect to this issue, that brings together the philosophical, psychological/psychoanalytical, and narratological traditions.

Psychoanalysis has often crossed paths with narrative; since Paul Ricœur’s innovative narrative interpretation of Freudian psychoanalysis, a number of important contributions (for example by Roy Schafer, Donald Spence, János László and Antonino Ferro) have developed and strengthened the bond between the two, in theory as well as in therapeutic practice.

Narrative as a process of “telling”, in the sense of making something narratable, corresponds to a process of temporalizing, making meaning, and being able to communicate something that has so far not only been untold, but also sometimes ineffable, undisclosed, or not even accessible to consciousness and realised by the person. Siri Hustvedt argues in her article "Three Emotional Stories" that “involuntary and traumatic memories that are sensorimotor, affective replays of an event, are not codified in language, and cannot be located in a subjective time or space”, but fiction and narrative creativity, which she deems equivalent to dreaming and remembering, is a process of “dreamlike reconfigurations of emotional meanings that take place unconsciously”.

It was Freud who, according to theorist of “narrative psychology” Dan McAdams, first indicated the connection between dream stories and psychoanalysis, characterising the former as the “royal road to the unconscious”.

David Lynch’s narratives have often been discussed as non-linear, fragmented, and dream-like, following indeed the “royal road to the unconscious” rather than the beaten path of classical Aristotelean drama; but they are still communicating, affectively, preconsciously, and through atmosphere, meanings lying beneath the surface of conscious awareness.
Telling the untold for Lynch, is, for example, to show what Mark Fisher calls weird and eerie, situations in which appears “a preoccupation with the strange”, which Lynch evokes with showing nothing where it should be something, or, in reverse, something where it should be nothing. Telling the untold also recalls the Lacanian concept of the “Real” as that which is unspeakable but produces effects, a concept that has become a fundamental tool of Lacanian-inspired cinematographic criticism such as that of Joan Copjec. For example, Slavoj Žižek used the Lacanian concepts of “Real” and “fundamental fantasy” to interpret Lynch's cinema in "The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime. On David Lynch's Lost Highway".

The use of the term “telling” does not mean to reinstate a dualistic relationship between verbal and nonverbal, cognition and emotion, mind and body. Telling here rather extends beyond language alone, and involves showing as well, as Schaffer has argued, addressing the whole of embodied experience, and narrative as an embodied experiential process (as explored for example, by Aaron Mishara). Hence the “theater” as a non-linguistic, embodied metaphor for Lynch’s art as a whole (expanding beyond the moving image, to painting, music etc.), and one that has also been used, notably by Baars, in relation to the mind and consciousness.

Abstracts and papers will be accepted in French, Italian, German, and Spanish, even though English is highly recommended. Linguistic revision, if required, will be authors’ responsibility.

For more info, details, and abstract submission, please contact: [email protected].

10/05/2023

📕SECOND THOUGHTS. IDEE FILOSOFICHE A CONFRONTO

Questo volume nasce dal desiderio di contribuire al recupero del
dialegesthai attraverso il ritorno ad alcune idee filosofiche che popolano la storia occidentale. Second thoughts significa, così, la possibilità di tornare su un’idea per rimetterla in dubbio, per reinterrogarla o guardarla sotto una luce ulteriore. L’istanza critica del confronto torna in gioco come messa tra parentesi, sospensione, apertura di uno spazio a diversi gradi di prossimità e di distanza da un orizzonte di pensiero storicamente determinato; come monito contro ogni posizione dogmatica, contro ogni presunta chiusura del sapere. Così il confronto, oltre ad essere una messa in ordine delle idee sul piano del discorso e della scrittura, risulta essere un potente strumento di ricerca, di indagine, un sondare il terreno, una messa alla prova.

Desideriamo ringraziare Roberta Cordaro, Daniele Zanghi, Antonio Coratti, Ilaria Ferrara, Francesca Ferrara, Angela Renzi, Beatrice Monti, Aubain Pemangoyi Leyika, Maria Letizia Curto Pelle, Arianna Colombo, Rossana Menghini per i loro contributi. È possibile avere libero accesso agli articoli sul nostro sito https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/giornale-filosofia/index

11/12/2022

Presenting our latest issue, 'The Rise of Mimetic Theory - On Violence and The Sacred' (Vol. 3, N. 1, 2022), at Università degli Studi di Milano.

01/12/2022

Professor Paul Dumouchel holding our latest issue 'The Rise of Mimetic Theory - On Violence and the Sacred'.

On our website you can find all the papers contained in this volume, including Dumouchel's and many others.

17/10/2022

Ringraziamo la Biblioteca di Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano per lo spazio dedicato alla nostra rivista.

Giornale di Filosofia è la rivista online, open-access che si propone di offrire una visione filosofica del mondo. La rivista è semestrale; ogni numero è dedicato a una tematica. “The perspec…

12/10/2022

📗 THE RISE OF MIMETIC THEORY - ON 'VIOLENCE AND THE SACRED'

🇬🇧 'Violence and the Sacred', by René Girard, was published in 1972, fifty years ago. Our new issue is dedicated to this important anniversary, as well as to the theory, known nowadays as 'mimetic theory', that has been developed in such an influential masterpiece of XXth century philosophy. We would like to thank Sandor Goodhart, Paul Dumouchel, Giuseppe Fornari, Jeremiah Alberg, Stéphane Vinolo, Silvio Morigi, Gianfranco Mormino, Maria Stella Barberi, Fabio Bacchini, Ivan Blečić, Emanuel Muroni, Pierpaolo Antonello, Tania Checchi, Chelsea King and Damiano Bondi for their articles. You can access all papers for free on our website: https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/giornale-filosofia/index

🇮🇹 Cinquant'anni fa, nel 1972, Renè Girard pubblicava 'La Violenza e il Sacro'. Il nostro nuovo volume è dedicato a tale importante anniversario, e alla teoria, oggi conosciuta come "teoria mimetica", sviluppata in questo classico della filosofia del '900. Desideriamo ringraziare Sandor Goodhart, Paul Dumouchel, Giuseppe Fornari, Jeremiah Alberg, Stephane Vinolo, Silvio Morigi, Gianfranco Mormino, Maria Stella Barberi, Fabio Bacchini, Ivan Blečić, Emanuel Muroni, Pierpaolo Antonello, Tania Checchi, Chelsea King e Damiano Bondi per i loro contributi. È possibile avere libero accesso agli articoli sul nostro sito: https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/giornale-filosofia/index

04/07/2022

In these days our upcoming issue has been presented at the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, the annual international conference dedicated to René Girard. The next volume, in fact, will be focused on Girard's first formulation of his mimetic theory.

21/04/2022

📗 TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICAL THOUGHT

🇬🇧 We are delighted to present “Technology and Constructive Critical Thought”, the second issue of 2021 of Giornale di Filosofia. We would like to thank Alexandre Bretel, Gilles Lecerf, Ignas Kalpokas, Julija Kalpokiene, Leslye Denisse Dias Duran, Gabriel Lucchini-Moyal, Pierre Lévy, Martin Gibert, Anne-Laure Thessard, Zachary Daus, Enrico Panai, Michel Puech, Giada Pistilli, Paolo Geremia, Chiara Magni and Beatrice Monti for their articles. You can access all papers for free on our website: https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/giornale-filosofia/index

🇨🇵 Nous sommes heureux de présenter “Technology and Constructive Critical Thought”, le deuxième volume de 2021 de Giornale di Filosofia. Nous souhaitons remercier Alexandre Bretel, Gilles Lecerf, Ignas Kalpokas, Julija Kalpokiene, Leslye Denisse Dias Duran, Gabriel Lucchini-Moyal, Pierre Lévy, Martin Gibert, Anne-Laure Thessard, Zachary Daus, Enrico Panai, Michel Puech, Giada Pistilli, Paolo Geremia, Chiara Magni et Beatrice Monti pour leurs contributions. Vous pouvez accéder librement tous les articles sur notre site internet : https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/giornale-filosofia/index

🇮🇹 Siamo lieti di presentare il secondo numero del 2021 di Giornale di Filosofia, “Technology and Constructive Critical Thought”. Desideriamo ringraziare Alexandre Bretel, Gilles Lecerf, Ignas Kalpokas, Julija Kalpokiene, Leslye Denisse Dias Duran, Gabriel Lucchini-Moyal, Pierre Lévy, Martin Gibert, Anne-Laure Thessard, Zachary Daus, Enrico Panai, Michel Puech, Giada Pistilli, Paolo Geremia, Chiara Magni e Beatrice Monti per i loro contributi. È possibile avere accesso libero agli articoli sul nostro sito: https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/giornale-filosofia/index

16/07/2021

📕 MEDITERRANEAN ENLIGHTENMENT

🇬🇧 We are delighted to present 'Mediterranean Enlightenment', the first issue of 2021 of 'Giornale di Filosofia'.
We would like to thank Maria Kavala, Dionysis Drosos, Halima Ouanada, Mansour M’henni, Khadija Ben Hassine, Domenico Bilotti, Antonio Coratti, Alessio Lo Giudice, Giovanni Magrì, Eleonora Alfano and Prisca Amoroso for their articles.
You can have free access to the papers on our website: https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/giornale-filosofia/index.

🇮🇹 Siamo lieti di presentare il primo numero del 2021 di 'Giornale di Filosofia'.
Desideriamo ringraziare Maria Kavala, Dionysis Drosos, Halima Ouanada, Mansour M’henni, Khadija Ben Hassine, Domenico Bilotti, Antonio Coratti, Alessio Lo Giudice, Giovanni Magrì, Eleonora Alfano e Prisca Amoroso per i loro contributi.
È possibile avere accesso libero agli articoli sul nostro sito: https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/giornale-filosofia/index.

15/07/2021