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- Edmund Husserl, Gilles Deleuze, Phenomenology, Structuralism/Post-Structuralism, Elias Canetti, Transcendental Philosophy, and 39 morePhilosophy of Science, Contemporary French Philosophy, Bernhard Waldenfels, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Felix Guattari, Consciousness, Gestalt Psychology, Semiotics, Semiotica, Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language and communication, Philosophy Of Language, Edmund Husserl (Philosophy) (Philosophy), Christian von Ehrenfels, Michel Foucault, Critical Theory, Carl Stumpf, Jacques Derrida, Husserlian phenomenology, Early Edmund Husserl, Edmund Husserl, Early Phenomenology, Philosophy of the Subject, General linguistics, Franz Kafka, Territory, Philosophy of Linguistics, History of Linguistics, History of Science, History of Mathematics, History of Philosophy, History of Ideas, History of Political Thought, History Of Psychology, Vittorio De Palma, Positivismo, Positivism, Filosofia Italiana, and Italian Philosophyedit
- SIMONE AURORA (Gardone V. T., 1986). Ha conseguito la laurea in Scienze filosofiche (2011) e il dottorato di ricerca ... moreSIMONE AURORA (Gardone V. T., 1986). Ha conseguito la laurea in Scienze filosofiche (2011) e il dottorato di ricerca in filosofia (2015) presso l'Università degli Studi di Padova. Ha svolto attività di ricerca presso gli archivi Husserl e Waldenfels della Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg (2013-2016). Dal 2016 è cultore della materia in Storia della filosofia presso il dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata dell'università degli studi di Padova e dal 2019 è assegnista di ricerca presso il medesimo dipartimento. Si occupa prevalentemente di fenomenologia e di filosofia francese contemporanea. Ha pubblicato una monografia e diversi saggi in volumi collettanei e riviste specializzate. Dal 2015 è assistant editor della rivista Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, mentre dal 2016 è editor-in-chief della rivista internazionale Acta structuralica. International Journal for Structuralist Research. edit
Il volume offre la prima presentazione generale – non solo in lingua italiana – della figura e del pensiero di Aron Gurwitsch, fenomenologo di origini lituane la cui influenza sulla filosofia europea e americana del XX secolo è stata, e... more
Il volume offre la prima presentazione generale – non solo in lingua italiana – della figura e del pensiero di Aron Gurwitsch, fenomenologo di origini lituane la cui influenza sulla filosofia europea e americana del XX secolo è stata, e continua a essere, ingiustamente sottovalutata. La ricostruzione assume i tratti di un attraversamento insieme storico e teorico e ambisce a restituire i contorni essenziali del contesto scientifico-culturale entro cui si colloca la proposta filosofica di Gurwitsch, di cui viene fornita inoltre un’analisi complessiva e dettagliata. Lo studio intende mostrare, in particolar modo, la rilevanza dell’opera di Gurwitsch all’interno della tradizione fenomenologica e, più in generale, della filosofia di matrice trascendentale. Vengono inoltre resi disponibili per la prima volta, al pubblico italiano, alcuni passaggi decisivi tratti dalle opere di Gurwitsch, di cui non esiste ancora alcuna traduzione in lingua italiana.
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Un manuale dalla trattazione agile, che affronta con un linguaggio semplice e ben argomentato le linee guida per affrontare i concetti e i pensatori principali dall’antichità all’epoca moderna. I capitoli, che seguono l’ordine... more
Un manuale dalla trattazione agile, che affronta con un linguaggio semplice e ben argomentato le linee guida per affrontare i concetti e i pensatori principali dall’antichità all’epoca moderna.
I capitoli, che seguono l’ordine cronologico dall’Antichità al Neopositivismo, sono scritti da specialisti del periodo o dei temi affrontati con l’intento di fornire contenuti facilmente acquisibili su autori, questioni e nuclei importanti presenti nelle lezioni universitarie, specialmente nei primi due anni del percorso di laurea triennale.
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Nei cinque capitoli che compongono il volume vengono analizzati alcuni dei concetti più importanti del pensiero di Deleuze e Canetti. Aurora si concentra, in particolare, sulle nozioni di differenza, metamorfosi e singolarità. L’obiettivo... more
Nei cinque capitoli che compongono il volume vengono analizzati alcuni dei concetti più importanti del pensiero di Deleuze e Canetti. Aurora si concentra, in particolare, sulle nozioni di differenza, metamorfosi e singolarità. L’obiettivo che l’autore si prefigge è duplice, insieme storico-filosofico e teoretico: da un lato, mostrare la vicinanza di fondo dei due pensatori, che hanno idealmente dialogato con alcuni dei protagonisti della storia del pensiero occidentale e hanno vissuto dall’interno la crisi della modernità; dall’altro, presentare una proposta teorica che continua a interrogare il nostro tempo e sulla quale vale ancora la pena di riflettere.
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Il volume contiene una selezione di testi tratti dalla «Rivista di Filosofia, Pedagogia e Scienze affini», “organo ufficiale” della scuola positivista padovana formatasi al magistero del più importante tra i positivisti italiani, Roberto... more
Il volume contiene una selezione di testi tratti dalla «Rivista di Filosofia, Pedagogia e Scienze affini», “organo ufficiale” della scuola positivista padovana formatasi al magistero del più importante tra i positivisti italiani, Roberto Ardigò. Protagoniste di questi scritti sono le scienze umane, che proprio nel contesto della cultura positivista di fine Ottocento riescono ad affermarsi come discipline scientifiche. Apre il volume un saggio introduttivo del curatore che presenta i tratti distintivi del problema delle scienze umane in Italia alla fine del XIX secolo. Completa il volume un testo di Fabio Grigenti che, nella postfazione, offre al lettore uno sguardo sul più ampio contesto filosofico-scientifico europeo, permettendo così di ricollocare il discorso sulle scienze dell’uomo all’interno di un quadro di riferimenti più ricco.
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In the final remarks of the editorial introduction to the second chapter of this special issue, Andrea Altobrando had announced that Metodo would have continued this thematic series On the transcendental by adding further chapters, whose... more
In the final remarks of the editorial introduction to the second chapter of this special issue, Andrea Altobrando had announced that Metodo would have continued this thematic series On the transcendental by adding further chapters, whose aim would have been to «contribute to sketch a shared and defined terminology, as well as a conceptually explained background for many philosophical traditions in addition to the phenomenological investigations and discussions». The volume that we are presenting shows that this «promise» was eventually kept.
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Acta Structuralica. International Journal for Structuralist Research. Special Issue No. 1, "Phenomenology and Structuralism". Edited by Rossana De Angelis and Simone Aurora.
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Reviewed by Nicola Spinelli: http://reviews.ophen.org/2017/11/03/simone-aurora-filosofia-e-scienze-nel-primo-husserl-review-2017/
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The aim of the paper is to show the relevancy of Aron Gurwitsch’s transcendental-phenomenological theory of the field of consciousness for semiotics and the theory of meaning. After a brief biographical introduction, the paper will focus... more
The aim of the paper is to show the relevancy of Aron Gurwitsch’s transcendental-phenomenological theory of the field of consciousness for semiotics and the theory of meaning. After a brief biographical introduction, the paper will focus upon the key theoretical points that define Gurwitsch’s theory of the field of consciousness and will consider some of Gurwitsch’s reflections on linguistic and semiotic issues. Finally, it will be shown that the latter are strictly connected with Gurwitsch’s general philosophical framework and, accordingly, that it is possible (and fruitful) to provide a semiotic understanding of Gurwitsch’s phenomenology.
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The aim of the paper is to show the relevancy of Aron Gurwitsch’s transcendental- phenomenological theory of the field of consciousness for semiotics and the theory of meaning. After a brief biographical introduction, the paper will focus... more
The aim of the paper is to show the relevancy of Aron Gurwitsch’s transcendental-
phenomenological theory of the field of consciousness for semiotics and the theory of meaning.
After a brief biographical introduction, the paper will focus upon the key theoretical points that
define Gurwitsch’s theory of the field of consciousness and will consider some of Gurwitsch’s reflec-
tions on linguistic and semiotic issues. Finally, it will be shown that the latter are strictly connected
with Gurwitsch’s general philosophical framework and, accordingly, that it is possible (and fruitful)
to provide a semiotic understanding of Gurwitsch’s phenomenology.
phenomenological theory of the field of consciousness for semiotics and the theory of meaning.
After a brief biographical introduction, the paper will focus upon the key theoretical points that
define Gurwitsch’s theory of the field of consciousness and will consider some of Gurwitsch’s reflec-
tions on linguistic and semiotic issues. Finally, it will be shown that the latter are strictly connected
with Gurwitsch’s general philosophical framework and, accordingly, that it is possible (and fruitful)
to provide a semiotic understanding of Gurwitsch’s phenomenology.
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This paper presents Aron Gurwitsch's phenomenological theory of organization, frst presented in the dissertation of 1929, Phenomenology of Thematics and of Pure Ego: Studies of the Relation between Gestalt theory and Phenomenology, and... more
This paper presents Aron Gurwitsch's phenomenological theory of organization, frst presented in the dissertation of 1929, Phenomenology of Thematics and of Pure Ego: Studies of the Relation between Gestalt theory and Phenomenology, and then developed in his major work of 1957, The feld of consciousness. Although I will refer to these two important works, I will focus my attention especially on another book, the habilitation thesis that was completed in 1933 but only posthumously published in 1977 with the title Human Encounters in the social world. In this book, Gurwitsch tries to apply his theory of the feld of consciousness to the domain of intersubjectivity and to the sphere of the social reality, undertaking some important refections on the notions of "familiarity" and "togetherness" which, as I tries to show, can play an important role both in the contemporary philosophical and scientifc debate and in the actual political context.
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The paper argues that ecology should not be understood as a sectoral issue, i.e. as the object of specific scientific disciplines such as environmental sociology, geology or biology; on the contrary, it is by very nature that ecology... more
The paper argues that ecology should not be understood as a sectoral issue, i.e. as the object of specific scientific disciplines such as environmental sociology, geology or biology; on the contrary, it is by very nature that ecology should be regarded as a large-scale matter consisting first and foremost in philosophical and political questions. It is the paper's main objective to claim that there is no way out from the ecological crisis without a critical reconsideration of the dominant socio-economic structures and of the cultural and philosophical background underpinning them. To this end, the present paper resorts to the concept of "social metabolism". By applying it to various "immaterial elements", and notably to philosophical systems, the essay investigates their ecological impact. As the paper aims to show, the metabolic analysis of the philosophical system implies adopting and advocating for a renewed transcendental approach.
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Introduction to "Phenomenology and Linguistics", Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, Vol 4 No 2 (2016)
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Language is a technological tool, since it is the outcome of a process of exteriorisation of a set of intentional practices. This process of exteriorisation is semiotic in nature. Language as technology and technology as language are thus... more
Language is a technological tool, since it is the outcome of a process of exteriorisation of a set of intentional practices. This process of exteriorisation is semiotic in nature. Language as technology and technology as language are thus ways of socialize consciousness. On the basis of some recent results in applied linguistics, the paper suggests that language and technology have to be considered as "functioning" when they enable social relations, by collectivising consciousness and producing a sort of social intelligence as well as an increase of complexity; on the other hand, language and technology have to be considered as "non-functioning" when they hinder socialization, privatize consciousness and reduce complexity, as is the case in automatized and algorithmic treatment of languages. This concept of language requires a reconsideration of the ways in which linguistics and philosophy of language understand semiotic practices and demands a shift from an &quo...
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La prima avvertenza che occorre adottare nel presentare il volume di Paolo Vignola consiste, come scrive Fabio Polidori nella bella prefazione che apre il testo, nel segnalare come si tratti qui "di una operazione filosofica forte di... more
La prima avvertenza che occorre adottare nel presentare il volume di Paolo Vignola consiste, come scrive Fabio Polidori nella bella prefazione che apre il testo, nel segnalare come si tratti qui "di una operazione filosofica forte di una perentoria presa di distanza – non solo tematica ma anche metodologica – da una lettura di Deleuze/Nietzsche che si distenda nella ricostruzione e descrizione di debiti, prestiti, coerenze o incoerenze relative ai principali temi del pensiero nietzschiano alla luce della ricostruzione deleuziana" (p. 5). Non che il rapporto tra l'autore de <em>La nascita della tragedia</em> e il filosofo francese non sia al centro dell'itinerario in cui si articolano i quattro capitoli che compongono il libro, come del resto indica, più o meno esplicitamente, il titolo stesso; il fatto è però che tale rapporto assume, nell'analisi di Vignola, un significato di ordine più generale, metodologico, divenendo funzionale ad una riflession...
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Phenomenology and structuralism are commonly understood as two opposing and largely incompatible schools of thought. Indeed, if the former is thought of as the philosophy of subjectivity par excellence, and the latter as the tradition in... more
Phenomenology and structuralism are commonly understood as two opposing and largely incompatible schools of thought. Indeed, if the former is thought of as the philosophy of subjectivity par excellence, and the latter as the tradition in which the “death of man” is declared, it seems difficult to challenge the antagony between them. On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that this picture represents an oversimplification and turns out to be, to a great extent, fallacious. The aim of this paper is to show that the philosophy of the early Husserl – notably as exposed in the Logical Investigations – ought to be fully considered as both part of the wide tradition of Transcendental philosophy as well as Structuralism. To this end, the paper mainly addresses Husserl’s notion of Wissenschaftslehre and the mereology developed in the Third logical investigation and, as a result, tries to show how Husserl’s position can be defined in terms of a “phenomenological structuralism” or a “structural phenomenology” or, as I propose, a “transcendental structuralism”.
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The aim of this paper is to show that Edmund Husserl’s Logical Investigations should be regarded as one of the fundamental sources of structuralism. Husserl’s version of structuralism is, however, quite original in many respects. Indeed,... more
The aim of this paper is to show that Edmund Husserl’s Logical Investigations should be regarded as one of the fundamental sources of structuralism. Husserl’s version of structuralism is, however, quite original in many respects. Indeed, what Husserl advocates in his works can be defined, following and expanding a line of research inaugurated by scholars like Elmar Holenstein and Giovanni Piana (see Holenstein, E. 1975. Roman Jakobsons phänomenologischer Strukturalismus. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, Holenstein, E. 1976. Linguistik, Semiotik, Hermeneutik: Plädoyers für eine strukturale Phänomenologie. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, Holenstein, E. In publication. Phenomenological Phenomenology of Language: Scattered Papers. Geneva: sdvig, Piana, G. 2013a. L'idea di uno strutturalismo fenomenologico. In G. Piana (ed.), Strutturalismo fenomenologico e psicologia della forma, 5–17. http://www.lulu.com/shop/giovanni-piana/strutturalismo-fenomenologico-e-psicologia-della-forma/paperback/product-21332317...
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This paper aims to consider the main features of the philosophy of linguistics proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, which emerges from the criticisms directed at what in A Thousand Plateaus they call ‘postulates of linguistics’. The paper... more
This paper aims to consider the main features of the philosophy of linguistics proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, which emerges from the criticisms directed at what in A Thousand Plateaus they call ‘postulates of linguistics’. The paper focuses on the transition from the Saussurean concept of system and from the connected notion of structure to Deleuze and Guattari's concept of machine. More precisely, the purpose of the paper lies, on the one hand, in showing in which sense Deleuze and Guattari claim that language is not a ‘structure’ but a ‘machine’ and why, accordingly, they maintain that the mentioned ‘postulates of linguistics’ must be refused; on the other hand, the paper represents an attempt at placing Deleuze and Guattari's position in the context of contemporary linguistics.
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In appearance, Husserl's writings seem not to have had any influence on linguistic research, nor does what the German philosopher wrote about language seem to be worth a place in the history of linguistics. The purpose of the paper is... more
In appearance, Husserl's writings seem not to have had any influence on linguistic research, nor does what the German philosopher wrote about language seem to be worth a place in the history of linguistics. The purpose of the paper is exactly to contrast this view, by reassessing both the position and the role of Husserl's early masterpiece-the Logical Investigations within the history of linguistics. To this end, I will focus mainly on the third (On the theory of wholes and parts) and fourth (The distinction between independent and non-independent meanings) Investigations, paying special attention to Husserl's mereology and to the idea of a general pure grammar. The paper tries to situate the third and fourth Logical Investigation within the general context of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century linguistics and furthermore attempts to show the historical and theoretical importance of the Logical Investigations for the birth and the development of one of ...
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The paper’s purpose consists in pointing out the importance of the notion of “territory”, in its different accepted meanings, for the development of a theory and a practice of subjectivity both in deleuzean and canettian thought. Even... more
The paper’s purpose consists in pointing out the importance of the notion of “territory”, in its different accepted meanings, for the development of a theory and a practice of subjectivity both in deleuzean and canettian thought. Even though they start from very different perspectives and epistemic levels, they indeed produce similar philosophical effects, which strengthen their “common ” view and the model of subjectivity they try to shape. More precisely, the paper focuses on the deleuzean triad of territorialisation, deterritorialisation, reterritorialisation, with regard to the role it plays in the forming of the subject and in connection with the fundamental deleuzean notion of difference; it furthermore concentrates on the characterization of the notion of territory in Canetti’s work, also in the light of the mentioned deleuzean categories and with reference to the crucial canettian concept of transformation. Finally, the paper analyses both the political consequences of the “...
Giornata di studio, Padova, 30 settembre 2020.
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The paper’s purpose consists in pointing out the importance of the notion of “territory”, in its different accepted meanings, for the development of a theory and a practice of subjectivity both in deleuzean and canettian thought. Even... more
The paper’s purpose consists in pointing out the importance of the notion of “territory”, in its different accepted meanings, for the development of a theory and a practice of subjectivity both in deleuzean and canettian thought. Even though they start from very different perspectives and epistemic levels, they indeed produce similar philosophical effects, which strengthen their “common” view and the model of subjectivity they try to shape. More precisely, the paper focuses on the deleuzean triad of territorialisation, deterritorialisation, reterritorialisation, with regard to the role it plays in the forming of the subject and in connection with the fundamental deleuzean notion of difference; it furthermore concentrates on the characterization of the notion of territory in Canetti’s work, also in the light of the mentioned deleuzean categories and with reference to the crucial canettian concept of transformation. Finally, the paper analyses both the political consequences of the “n...
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The dissertation has a double purpose. In the first part it aims at reconstructing, from a historical-philosophical point of view, the birth of Husserlian phenomenology, from the years of the scientific and philosophical education of the... more
The dissertation has a double purpose. In the first part it aims at reconstructing, from a historical-philosophical point of view, the birth of Husserlian phenomenology, from the years of the scientific and philosophical education of the young Husserl to the publication of Logical Investigations, with special emphasis on the transformations concerning mathematics and psychology in the last three decades of the 19th century. On the other hand, from a theoretical point of view, the study intends to show that the philosophy of the early Husserl – in particular its most important outcome, namely the Logical Investigations, to which the entire second part is devoted – is absolutely internal to that epistemological rupture that occurs at the turn of the 20th century and that lies in the emergence, in many disciplinary areas, of a structural scientific paradigm.
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1. Husserl and the History of LinguisticsIn most histories of linguistics, it is usual to read that a nineteenth-century characterized by historical-comparative linguistics gives the way to a twentieth century marked by theoretical or... more
1. Husserl and the History of LinguisticsIn most histories of linguistics, it is usual to read that a nineteenth-century characterized by historical-comparative linguistics gives the way to a twentieth century marked by theoretical or general linguistics. The first expression, historical-comparative linguistics, indicates the branch of linguistics which is concerned with the scientific study of language change over time, having as its principal goals the account of observed changes in particular languages, the reconstruction of the pre-history of languages, the grouping of languages into language families on the basis of their supposed relatedness, the development of general theories about language change, the study of the history of words and of speech communities with the objective of gaining a better understanding of the phenomenon of linguistic change.1 General or theoretical linguistics, on the other hand, is mostly interested in establishing “general principles for the study o...
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The aim of this paper is to show the influence which Roberto Ardigò – the most important representative of Italian positivism – had upon the debate about the constitution of human sciences as autonomous disciplines in Italy, during the... more
The aim of this paper is to show the influence which Roberto Ardigò – the most important representative of Italian positivism – had upon the debate about the constitution of human sciences as autonomous disciplines in Italy, during the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century. The paper focuses on sociology and psychology in particular. Indeed, by considering the debate on such disciplines, one can easily register some strategic stances which were taken, on the basis of different philosophical assumptions, with respect to the human sciences and their relationship with philosophical knowledge. However, as it will be shown, the debate on the human sciences cannot be considered as a mere philosophical and scientific one, for it became the subject of a true political dispute.
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The paper argues that ecology should not be understood as a sectoral issue, i.e. as the object of specific scientific disciplines such as environmental sociology, geology or biology; on the contrary, it is by very nature that ecology... more
The paper argues that ecology should not be understood as a sectoral issue, i.e. as the object of specific scientific disciplines such as environmental sociology, geology or biology; on the contrary, it is by very nature that ecology should be regarded as a large-scale matter consisting first and foremost in philosophical and political questions. It is the paper’s main objective to claim that there is no way out from the ecological crisis without a critical reconsideration of the dominant socio-economic structures and of the cultural and philosophical background underpinning them. To this end, the present paper resorts to the concept of “social metabolism”. By applying it to various “immaterial elements”, and notably to philosophical systems, the essay investigates their ecological impact. As the paper aims to show, the metabolic analysis of the philosophical system implies adopting and advocating for a renewed transcendental approach.
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Language is a technological tool, since it is the outcome of a process of exteriorisation of a set of intentional practices. This process of exteriorisation is semiotic in nature. Language as technology and technology as language are thus... more
Language is a technological tool, since it is the outcome of a process of exteriorisation of a set of intentional practices. This process of exteriorisation is semiotic in nature. Language as technology and technology as language are thus ways of socialize consciousness. On the basis of some recent results in applied linguistics, the paper suggests that language and technology have to be considered as "functioning" when they enable social relations, by collectivising consciousness and producing a sort of social intelligence as well as an increase of complexity; on the other hand, language and technology have to be considered as "nonfunctioning" when they hinder socialization, privatize consciousness and reduce complexity, as is the case in automatized and algorithmic treatment of languages. This concept of language requires a reconsideration of the ways in which linguistics and philosophy of language understand semiotic practices and demands a shift from an "autonomist view" to a "political view" of language.
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Phenomenology and structuralism are commonly understood as two opposing and largely incompatible schools of thought. Indeed, if the former is thought of as the philosophy of subjectivity par excellence, and the latter as the tradition in... more
Phenomenology and structuralism are commonly understood as two opposing and largely incompatible schools of thought. Indeed, if the former is thought of as the philosophy of subjectivity par excellence, and the latter as the tradition in which the “death of man” is declared, it seems difficult to challenge the antagony between them. On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that this picture represents an oversimplification and turns out to be, to a great extent, falla- cious. The aim of this paper is to show that the philosophy of the early Husserl – notably as exposed in the Logical Investigations – ought to be fully considered as both part of the wide tradition of Transcendental philosophy as well as Structuralism. To this end, the paper mainly addresses Husserl’s notion of Wissenschaftslehre and the mereology developed in the Third logical investigation and, as a result, tries to show how Husserl’s position can be defined in terms of a “phenomenological struc- turalism” or a “structural phenomenology” or, as I propose, a “transcendental structuralism”.
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The aim of this paper is to show that Edmund Husserl’s Logical Investigations should be regarded as one of the fundamental sources of structuralism. Husserl’s version of structuralism is, however, quite original in many respects. Indeed,... more
The aim of this paper is to show that Edmund Husserl’s Logical Investigations should be regarded as one of the fundamental sources of structuralism. Husserl’s version of structuralism is, however, quite original in many respects. Indeed, what Husserl advocates in his works can be defined, following and expanding a line of research inaugurated by scholars like Elmar Holenstein and Giovanni Piana (see Holenstein, E. 1975. Roman Jakobsons phänomenologischer Strukturalismus. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp,
Holenstein, E. 1976. Linguistik, Semiotik, Hermeneutik: Plädoyers fur eine strukturale Phänomenologie. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, Holenstein, E. In publication. Phenomenological Phenomenology of Language: Scattered Papers. Geneva: sdvig, Piana, G. 2013a. L’idea di uno strutturalismo fenomenologico. In G. Piana (ed.), Strutturalismo fenomenologico e psicologia della forma, 5–17. http://www.lulu.com/shop/giovanni-piana/strutturalismofenomenologico-e-psicologia-della-forma/paperback/product-21332317.html (accessed 20 February 2018), Piana,
G. 2013b. Momento figurale e qualità ghestaltica. In G. Piana (ed.), Strutturalismo fenomenologico e psicologia della forma, 101–119. http://www.lulu.com/shop/giovanni-piana/strutturalismo-fenomenologico-epsicologia-della-forma/paperback/product-21332317.html accessed 20 February 2018), in terms of phenomenological structuralism or of structural phenomenology.
Holenstein, E. 1976. Linguistik, Semiotik, Hermeneutik: Plädoyers fur eine strukturale Phänomenologie. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, Holenstein, E. In publication. Phenomenological Phenomenology of Language: Scattered Papers. Geneva: sdvig, Piana, G. 2013a. L’idea di uno strutturalismo fenomenologico. In G. Piana (ed.), Strutturalismo fenomenologico e psicologia della forma, 5–17. http://www.lulu.com/shop/giovanni-piana/strutturalismofenomenologico-e-psicologia-della-forma/paperback/product-21332317.html (accessed 20 February 2018), Piana,
G. 2013b. Momento figurale e qualità ghestaltica. In G. Piana (ed.), Strutturalismo fenomenologico e psicologia della forma, 101–119. http://www.lulu.com/shop/giovanni-piana/strutturalismo-fenomenologico-epsicologia-della-forma/paperback/product-21332317.html accessed 20 February 2018), in terms of phenomenological structuralism or of structural phenomenology.
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Introduction to "Phenomenology and Structuralism", Acta Structuralica. International Journal for Structuralist Research, special issue 1.
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Structural phenomenology is a scientific method founded on a general theory of experience, whose specific contours and potentially considerable explanatory power have been obscured by its complex historical genesis. Barring a few partial... more
Structural phenomenology is a scientific method founded on a general theory of experience, whose specific contours and potentially considerable explanatory power have been obscured by its complex historical genesis. Barring a few partial or indirect attempts (e.g. Pos 2013 [1939], Holenstein 1976, Piana 1996, Coquet 2007, Groupe µ 2015), no synthetic account of its core tenets has been provided. In fact, structural phenomenology has not even been framed explicitly as a coherent tradition or theory in its own right. In the rare cases where the term has been used, it seems to refer only to an indefinite conceptual space where structuralism and phenomenology have on occasion intersected. Given that the works of Edmund Husserl, Roman Jakobson, the Gestalt psychologists, Maurice Merleau-Ponty or Jacques Derrida all provide examples of productive convergences or intersections between these two traditions, it is nonetheless quite clear that efforts to articulate what one might call « structural-phenomenological thought » constituted not a fleeting or marginal episode in 20th Century intellectual history, but a persistent undercurrent. As we hope to show, moreover, it is possible not only to identify a number of fundamental ideas in the nexus of exchanges between phenomenological and structuralist approaches, but also to distil these ideas into a set of consistent principles that provide an outline of structural phenomenology as a coherent theory and method.
Research Interests: Semiotics, Intellectual History, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, and 15 moreEpistemology, Philosophy of Science, History of Ideas, Phenomenology, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Jacques Derrida, Speculative Realism, Structuralism (Philosophy), History and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, Russian Formalism, Noam Chomsky, Realism, New Realism, and Phenomenology After Structuralism
Sulla base di una analisi comparata del testo della Prima ricerca logica husserliana – intitolata Espressione e significato – e di alcuni passaggi del Corso di linguistica generale di Saussure, il presente contributo intende tracciare... more
Sulla base di una analisi comparata del testo della Prima ricerca logica husserliana – intitolata Espressione e significato – e di alcuni passaggi del Corso di linguistica generale di Saussure, il presente contributo intende tracciare alcune possibili traiettorie teoretiche per un possibile confronto – che certamente necessiterebbe di una trattazione molto più approfondita – tra la semiologia saussuriana e la semiotica fenomenologica sviluppata da Husserl nelle Ricerche logiche.
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This paper aims to consider the main features of the philosophy of linguistics proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, which emerges from the criticisms directed at what in A Thousand Plateaus they call 'postulates of linguistics'. The paper... more
This paper aims to consider the main features of the philosophy of linguistics proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, which emerges from the criticisms directed at what in A Thousand Plateaus they call 'postulates of linguistics'. The paper focuses on the transition from the Saussurean concept of system and from the connected notion of structure to Deleuze and Guattari's concept of machine. More precisely, the purpose of the paper lies, on the one hand, in showing in which sense Deleuze and Guattari claim that language is not a 'structure' but a 'machine' and why, accordingly, they maintain that the mentioned 'postulates of linguistics' must be refused; on the other hand, the paper represents an attempt at placing Deleuze and Guattari's position in the context of contemporary linguistics.
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Introduction to "Phenomenology and Linguistics", Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, 4 (2), 2016
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Recensione a M. De Palo, "Saussure e gli strutturalismi. Il soggetto
parlante nel pensiero linguistico del Novecento", Carocci 2016 (pp. 344)
parlante nel pensiero linguistico del Novecento", Carocci 2016 (pp. 344)
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The phenomenological movement, one can confidently affirm today, is thriving. This is true first of all with regard to the dominant metrics of modern academic life, the number of publications appearing every year: in 2019, nearly 200... more
The phenomenological movement, one can confidently affirm today, is thriving. This is true first of all with regard to the dominant metrics of modern academic life, the number of publications appearing every year: in 2019, nearly 200 books closely related to phenomenology were published (source: Phenomenological Reviews) and more than 100 phenomenology journals produced at least one new issue (source: OPHEN). Similarly, the number of scholars devoting their career entirely or partially to phenomenology is greater than it has ever been: the non-exhaustive OPHEN directory lists about 2500 active researchers and, less significantly, more than 200.000 people have chosen phenomenology as a theme of interest on Academia.edu. On almost any given day of the year, a conference, workshop or summer school devoted to phenomenology is happening somewhere in Europe, North or South America, Asia or indeed Africa. Further signs of phenomenology's current vitality can be found in its thematic advances and institutional foothold. The number of chairs in phenomenology is stable, new societies and new projects are materialising, and big grants such as ERCs are being won. Even more significantly, phenomenology has managed over the last decades to broaden out and entrench itself in many fields beyond philosophy (critical, environmental, gender, literary or management studies, pedagogy, psychology and psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, etc.). In this process, moreover, it has not lost itself but continued a process of methodological reflection on its own foundations-as witnessed by the ever-renewed fascination for the thought of its founders and the growing historical and theoretical interest in early phenomenology, women philosophers, or thinkers such as Emanuel Levinas, Jan Patočka or Gustav Špet.
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In its heyday in the 1960s, " structuralism " was one of the most influential movements in the human and social sciences. That influence, however, was always contentious and waned as soon as the early 1970s. Since then, structuralism has... more
In its heyday in the 1960s, " structuralism " was one of the most influential movements in the human and social sciences. That influence, however, was always contentious and waned as soon as the early 1970s. Since then, structuralism has attracted rather sporadic attention, usually focused on specific figures such as Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Lévi-Strauss or Roland Barthes. It has also been dismissed as a coherent, productive method and relegated instead to the status of a passing " fad ". Against this background, the aim of Acta Structuralica is to provide a strong venue where research on all aspects of structuralism can aggregate and coalesce into renewed approaches and coherent perspectives on what, we firmly believe, is still a foundational paradigm. The scope of the journal will be fundamentally interdisciplinary, spanning linguistics and literary theory, of course, but also anthropology, biology, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, semiotics or indeed mathematics and physics. Its focus will be as much historical (or historiographical) as theoretical, seeking to unfold the full conceptual scope of structuralism by interrogating its often neglected sources, the paths of their development and their contemporary potential and applications. Acta Structuralica is funded and powered by sdvig press, a not-for-profit, " platinum open access " publisher. It is conceived as the publishing vehicle for Structuralica, an open access platform and repository dedictated to structuralism. This is a provisional description of Acta Structuralica and its scope, as we wish to integrate feedback and comments from the research community in its final version.
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The relationship between phenomenology and structuralism has generally been pictured as one of opposition, even antagonism. Perhaps as a result of such positions, structuralists and phenomenologists have tended to ignore their respective... more
The relationship between phenomenology and structuralism has generally been pictured as one of opposition, even antagonism. Perhaps as a result of such positions, structuralists and phenomenologists have tended to ignore their respective concepts and fundamental assumptions. Despite this mutual ignorance, it is possible to construe the opposition between phenomenology and structuralism more positively.
Its main premise is that phenomenology and structuralism emerged as pan-European, interdisciplinary traditions which, far from representing conflicting or alternative schools, developed within a wide and complex network of mutual influences at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Its main premise is that phenomenology and structuralism emerged as pan-European, interdisciplinary traditions which, far from representing conflicting or alternative schools, developed within a wide and complex network of mutual influences at the beginning of the 20th Century.