Samantha Novello
MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History, Cambridge University, UK (2000)
PhD in Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Firenze, Italy (2005)
Research assistant in Political Philosophy, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy (2007)
PhD in Political Studies. History and Theory, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy (2012)
2005-2012: teacher of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Secondary Education, Italy
2013-present: teacher of Philosophy and History, Secondary Education, Italy.
Research Assistant in Political Philisophy, Università degli Studi di Verona (2018-19).
PhD in Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Firenze, Italy (2005)
Research assistant in Political Philosophy, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy (2007)
PhD in Political Studies. History and Theory, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy (2012)
2005-2012: teacher of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Secondary Education, Italy
2013-present: teacher of Philosophy and History, Secondary Education, Italy.
Research Assistant in Political Philisophy, Università degli Studi di Verona (2018-19).
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Elements for a psychopathology of revolt A dialogue between psychology and philosophy Abstract By resorting to an inter-and transdisciplinary approach, especially developed in the field of bioethics, the present article explores the possibilities for a critical " dialogue " between the contemporary clinical practice and the phenomenology of revolt and its pathological forms, formulated in the work of Albert Camus. The reading of the clinical case of Theo through the lens of the 1957 Nobel Price for Literature's philosophical writings, in particular , L'Homme révolté (Paris, 1951), allows to challenge some of the current therapeutical approaches – from neuropsychological to systemic and psychodynamic psychotherapy – in the light of Camus's analysis of the contemporary psychopathology of revolt.
Elements for a psychopathology of revolt A dialogue between psychology and philosophy Abstract By resorting to an inter-and transdisciplinary approach, especially developed in the field of bioethics, the present article explores the possibilities for a critical " dialogue " between the contemporary clinical practice and the phenomenology of revolt and its pathological forms, formulated in the work of Albert Camus. The reading of the clinical case of Theo through the lens of the 1957 Nobel Price for Literature's philosophical writings, in particular , L'Homme révolté (Paris, 1951), allows to challenge some of the current therapeutical approaches – from neuropsychological to systemic and psychodynamic psychotherapy – in the light of Camus's analysis of the contemporary psychopathology of revolt.
The textual reconstruction of Camus’ threefold acceptation of nihilism from Le Mythe de Sisyphe to L’Homme révolté, and the focus on the author’s attempt to define a good (use of) nihilism as providing an aisthetic method of thinking in the margins of the so-called modern nihilism and against the 20th century hubristic «revolution» of the absolute-nihilistic fabrication of corpses, is read next to Arendt’s threefold critique of nihilism - in the 19th century ideologies of History, in the mob’s unprincipled political action (early nihilism) and in the totalitarian contempt of mere existence (radical nihilism) in The Origins of Totalitarianism – as bringing into light the fabrication model of political action in the Western tradition of political thought, culminating in the totalitarian project of Politics as Total Art.
By tracing in the critique of radical nihilism a still largely overlooked key to the two authors’ contribution toward a re-thinking of the political in the margins of the post-war Liberal and Conservative restoration of the tradition, the thesis focuses on Camus and Arendt’s appropriation of the (Nietzschean) concept of (political) creation and of tragedy as providing the elements for an alternative paradigm of aesthetic politics, which opposes to the poietic model of a politics of achievement (as politics of whatness) the performative model of a politics of dignity or politics of whoness, beyond the impasse of the incorporation/de-materialization logic of the political exposed by total(itarian) domination.
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/rz2BDNFfVazYV6x3rNT5/full.