- Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Graduate Studentadd
- My research is originally based on the concept of recognition and expecially the reflections of Paul Ricoeur on the s... moreMy research is originally based on the concept of recognition and expecially the reflections of Paul Ricoeur on the subject. I am exploring the recent field of philosophy of geography, by reframing a phenomenological approach on it. I write in English, French and Italian and I often move abroad for conferences.edit
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Introduction to special issue "Ricoeur and the Problem of Space"
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Introduzione al numero 10 "Sistema e liberta. Razionalita e improvvisazione tra filosofia, arte e pratiche umane".
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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... 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.
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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... 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.
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Bookreview of, Alberto Romele, L’expérience du verbum in corde, ou l’impuissance de l’herméneutique (Milan: Mimesis, 2013), 260 pp. Compte rendu de l'ouvrage d'Alberto Romele, , L’expérience du verbum in corde, ou l’impuissance de... more
Bookreview of, Alberto Romele, L’expérience du verbum in corde, ou l’impuissance de l’herméneutique (Milan: Mimesis, 2013), 260 pp. Compte rendu de l'ouvrage d'Alberto Romele, , L’expérience du verbum in corde, ou l’impuissance de l’herméneutique (Milan: Mimesis, 2013), 260 pp.
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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... 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.
Introduction française au numéro spécial "Ricœur et la question de l'espace"
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Introduction - Ricoeur and the Problem of Space. Perspectives on a Ricoeurian "Spatial Turn" Études Ricœuriennes / Ricœur Studies, Vol 12, No 2 (2021), pp. 1-7 ISSN 2156-7808 (online) DOI 10.5195/errs.2021.576... more
Introduction - Ricoeur and the Problem of Space. Perspectives on a Ricoeurian "Spatial Turn" Études Ricœuriennes / Ricœur Studies, Vol 12, No 2 (2021), pp. 1-7 ISSN 2156-7808 (online) DOI 10.5195/errs.2021.576 http://ricoeur.pitt.edu
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There are some interesting connections between epistemological issues concerning geography and the main interests of environmental aesthetics. Environmental aesthetics has already dealt with the issue whether certain kinds of scientific... more
There are some interesting connections between epistemological issues concerning geography and the main interests of environmental aesthetics. Environmental aesthetics has already dealt with the issue whether certain kinds of scientific knowledge are relevant or not to aesthetic appreciation. What we hold here is that aesthetic appreciation of the environment plays a relevant role to the scientific knowledge of it. The argument unfolds in three steps. First, I will establish a phenomenological notion of geographical experience. This includes an overview of the debate in human geography between two epistemologies: a quantitative, nomothetic and an-aesthetic one and a more qualitative, idiographic and phenomenological one. Second, I will discuss some of the aesthetic metaphors that geographers and social scientists, who have adopted the second epistemology, have been using to build the geographical concept of place. Third, I will show that aesthetic appreciation serves as the basis fo...
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In Panaesthetics , Daniel Albright ricerca le condizioni, teoriche ed empiriche, della disciplina delle arti comparate. Cosi, l'autore affronta questioni di filosofia dell'arte di primissimo piano: la distinzione tra le arti, la... more
In Panaesthetics , Daniel Albright ricerca le condizioni, teoriche ed empiriche, della disciplina delle arti comparate. Cosi, l'autore affronta questioni di filosofia dell'arte di primissimo piano: la distinzione tra le arti, la loro relazione, l'autonomia dell'arte o la sua dipendenza dalla sfera della cultura, lo sguardo estetico, la natura indipendente dell'opera e il suo rapporto con l'uomo. Su questi ed altri problemi dell'estetica Albright mostra di avere uno sguardo ampio e una posizione sincretica, che contempera influenze filosofiche diverse e talvolta contraddittorie. Nell'articolo vengono individuati due sfondi fondamentali del libro di Albright: Heidegger, con L'origine dell'opera d'arte , e Nancy, con Le Muse . Gli spunti che giungono ad Albright da questi due cardini della filosofia dell'arte contemporanea si articolano in maniera tutt'altro che scontata. Se infatti da Heidegger Albright mutua l'idea che nell...
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This paper deals with the relation between freedom and norm in the practical philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, taking into account especially the “Little Ethics” that covers Studies VII, VIII, IX of Oneself as Another . Although Ricoeur states... more
This paper deals with the relation between freedom and norm in the practical philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, taking into account especially the “Little Ethics” that covers Studies VII, VIII, IX of Oneself as Another . Although Ricoeur states the priority of ethics over moral, playing the quest for good and happiness off against deontological morality of duty, it soon appears clear that the norm is necessarily implied by the development of ethics itself. No actual freedom can exist without norm; but, on the other and, no normative system is absolute, because the quest for good, in which freedom consists, cannot be fulfilled by any norm. This is the reason why it is always possible, and in some cases necessary, to act not following the established rules, but by improvisational conducts that can answer to the needs of the given situations. Aim of the article is to show the relevance of creativity for Ricoeur’s theory of action, but also to highlight the fact that creativity is not grounded...
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Jean Paul’s style of writing is both multifarious and self-reflexive in its being crowded with authorial critical comments and metaliterary digressions, which, according to this essay, aim at portraying a fragmented and complex subject... more
Jean Paul’s style of writing is both multifarious and self-reflexive in its being crowded with authorial critical comments and metaliterary digressions, which, according to this essay, aim at portraying a fragmented and complex subject who has by now lost any empathic and “romantic” connection with nature. Starting from a survey of the cultural and philosophical background of Jean Paul’s formative years, this essay delves into the themes of the shattered idyll and the ambiguous relationship between the “I” and the “other” by analysing the main characters of two short narratives, Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterlein Maria Wutz in Auenthal and Leben des Quintus
The aim of my paper is to put Ricœur’s philosophy in dialogue with human geography. There are at least two good reasons to do so. The first concerns the epistemological foundation of geography: Whereas humanistic or phenomenological... more
The aim of my paper is to put Ricœur’s philosophy in dialogue with human geography. There are at least two good reasons to do so. The first concerns the epistemological foundation of geography: Whereas humanistic or phenomenological geographers inspired by Heidegger or, to a lesser extent, by Merleau-Ponty have sometimes taken on an anti-scientific approach, the Ricœurian articulation of understanding and explanation may contribute to building a bridge between the experiential side of place-meanings and the scientific explanations of spatial elements and their relationships. The second reason has to do with the application of the Ricœurian “model of the text” to landscape: It is a direction that Ricœur never explicitly took, but it is worth exploring, especially considering that “landscape as a text” was quite a popular metaphor among human geographers in the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper I will discuss both issues in order to outline a “Ricœurian path to geography,” which, while n...
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Introduction – Ricœur et la question de l’espace. Les perspectives d’un « tournant spatial » à partir de Ricœur Études Ricœuriennes / Ricœur Studies, Vol 12, No 2 (2021), pp. 8-14 ISSN 2156-7808 (online) DOI 10.5195/errs.2021.577... more
Introduction – Ricœur et la question de l’espace. Les perspectives
d’un « tournant spatial » à partir de Ricœur
Études Ricœuriennes / Ricœur Studies, Vol 12, No 2 (2021), pp. 8-14
ISSN 2156-7808 (online) DOI 10.5195/errs.2021.577
http://ricoeur.pitt.edu
d’un « tournant spatial » à partir de Ricœur
Études Ricœuriennes / Ricœur Studies, Vol 12, No 2 (2021), pp. 8-14
ISSN 2156-7808 (online) DOI 10.5195/errs.2021.577
http://ricoeur.pitt.edu
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Il primo anniversario della morte di Rosario Assunto offrì a Luigi Russo l’occasione per un intervento tutt’altro che rituale sul ruolo che il pensiero del maestro avrebbe avuto nel rinnovamento dell’estetica filosofica1. Insieme con... more
Il primo anniversario della morte di Rosario Assunto offrì a Luigi
Russo l’occasione per un intervento tutt’altro che rituale sul ruolo
che il pensiero del maestro avrebbe avuto nel rinnovamento dell’estetica
filosofica1. Insieme con Tatarkiewicz, Assunto viene considerato
da Russo tra i principali rappresentanti di un’estetica capace
di uscire dalle strette maglie della sola teoria, per rendere conto
dell’esteticità dei fenomeni storici e culturali.
Russo fu, a tale riguardo, un antesignano. Come oggi testimoniano
i fiorenti campi dell’everyday aesthetics e dell’environmental
aesthetics, si tratta di una tendenza largamente diffusa nell’estetica
contemporanea.
Russo l’occasione per un intervento tutt’altro che rituale sul ruolo
che il pensiero del maestro avrebbe avuto nel rinnovamento dell’estetica
filosofica1. Insieme con Tatarkiewicz, Assunto viene considerato
da Russo tra i principali rappresentanti di un’estetica capace
di uscire dalle strette maglie della sola teoria, per rendere conto
dell’esteticità dei fenomeni storici e culturali.
Russo fu, a tale riguardo, un antesignano. Come oggi testimoniano
i fiorenti campi dell’everyday aesthetics e dell’environmental
aesthetics, si tratta di una tendenza largamente diffusa nell’estetica
contemporanea.
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Il primo anniversario della morte di Rosario Assunto offrì a Luigi Russo l’occasione per un intervento tutt’altro che rituale sul ruolo che il pensiero del maestro avrebbe avuto nel rinnovamento dell’estetica filosofica1. Insieme con... more
Il primo anniversario della morte di Rosario Assunto offrì a Luigi
Russo l’occasione per un intervento tutt’altro che rituale sul ruolo
che il pensiero del maestro avrebbe avuto nel rinnovamento dell’estetica
filosofica1. Insieme con Tatarkiewicz, Assunto viene considerato
da Russo tra i principali rappresentanti di un’estetica capace
di uscire dalle strette maglie della sola teoria, per rendere conto
dell’esteticità dei fenomeni storici e culturali.
Russo fu, a tale riguardo, un antesignano. Come oggi testimoniano
i fiorenti campi dell’everyday aesthetics e dell’environmental
aesthetics, si tratta di una tendenza largamente diffusa nell’estetica
contemporanea.
Russo l’occasione per un intervento tutt’altro che rituale sul ruolo
che il pensiero del maestro avrebbe avuto nel rinnovamento dell’estetica
filosofica1. Insieme con Tatarkiewicz, Assunto viene considerato
da Russo tra i principali rappresentanti di un’estetica capace
di uscire dalle strette maglie della sola teoria, per rendere conto
dell’esteticità dei fenomeni storici e culturali.
Russo fu, a tale riguardo, un antesignano. Come oggi testimoniano
i fiorenti campi dell’everyday aesthetics e dell’environmental
aesthetics, si tratta di una tendenza largamente diffusa nell’estetica
contemporanea.
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There are some interesting connections between epistemological issues concerning geography and the main interests of environmental aesthetics. Environmental aesthetics has already dealt with the issue whether certain kinds of scientific... more
There are some interesting connections between epistemological issues concerning geography and the main interests of environmental aesthetics. Environmental aesthetics has already dealt with the issue whether certain kinds of scientific knowledge are relevant or not to aesthetic appreciation. What we hold here is that aesthetic appreciation of the environment plays a relevant role to the scientific knowledge of it. The argument unfolds in three steps. First, I will establish a phenomenological notion of geographical experience. This includes an overview of the debate in human geography between two epistemologies: a quantitative, nomothetic and anaesthetic one and a more qualitative, idiographic and phenomenological one. Second, I will discuss some of the aesthetic metaphors that geographers and social scientists, who have adopted the second epistemology, have been using to build the geographical concept of place. Third, I will show that aesthetic appreciation serves as the basis for the geographical notion of landscape.
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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... 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.
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Landscape as a Text: Ricoeur and the Human Geography This paper aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue between Ricoeur's phe-nomenological-hermeneutical thought and human geography, in particular with respect to the issue of... more
Landscape as a Text: Ricoeur and the Human Geography This paper aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue between Ricoeur's phe-nomenological-hermeneutical thought and human geography, in particular with respect to the issue of landscape interpretation. The connection draws on the idea that landscapes and lived spaces can be read as texts, not unfamiliar to human geography and semiotics from 1980s onward. In the first part of the paper I will briefly expound some theories of landscape which make use of the metaphors "landscape as cultural image" and "landscape as text" in human and cultural geography. Then, I will discuss the main contribution of Ricoeur to the issue of space. The philosopher already envisioned a possible application of his "threefold mimesis" of Time and Narrative (1983-1985) to architectural spaces (Architecture and Narrativity, 1996). In the conclusion, I will propose to rejuvenate the geographical metaphor of "landscape as text" by introducing a possible application of the Ricoeurian notion of "meaningful action as text" to landscape.
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This paper aims to show the connection between space, place and subjectivity. According to how we conceive space, place and their relations, it is possible to affirm a certain understanding of what has been called "the subject" in the... more
This paper aims to show the connection between space, place and subjectivity. According to how we conceive space, place and their relations, it is possible to affirm a certain understanding of what has been called "the subject" in the framework of Cartesian, Kantian and Husserlian legacies. Quantitative geography takes the transcendental subject-characterized by a methodical detachment from its environment, constituted as an opposite object-for granted. Many and various reactions to this subject-object model can be traced within the social sciences (and within human geography in particular) in the last four decades. In this paper I propose an overview of these reactions and then provide a new conceptual articulation for them, based on the kind of subjectivity they assume. I have identified three overarching patterns, or meta-theories: one ontological , one critical and one phenomenological. PLACES AND THE SUBJECT: A PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION Space and place have become highly significant for social theory over the last few decades. A theoretical enrichment of these concepts has been pursued not only by geographers, but also by architects, sociologists , anthropologists, planners, political theorists, historians, economists and philosophers. While efforts to collect many of these contributions have been made,1 less attention was given to how, and to what extent, the transdisciplinary debate on the notions of space and place is of significance to philosophy. In the nineteenth and twentieth century, philosophical inquiry was more focused on human finitude and mortality, on time and temporality, than on the concepts of space and place.2 According to the influential American geographer Edward Space, Place and the Subject Exploring Three Approaches PAOLO FURIA
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Un'indagine sulla rilevanza del pensiero politico del celebre filosofo francese Paul Ricoeur, al di là del suo rapporto con Emmanuel Macron...
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Nel primo paragrafo, dopo aver ripercorso brevemente il gioco tra moderno e postmoderno, esamineremo il Metamodernismo in quanto espressione dell'insoddisfazione nei riguardi del postmoderno come categoria sia descrittiva che... more
Nel primo paragrafo, dopo aver ripercorso brevemente il gioco tra moderno e postmoderno, esamineremo il Metamodernismo in quanto espressione dell'insoddisfazione nei riguardi del postmoderno come categoria sia descrittiva che prescrittiva, come posa e atteggiamento, favorenti il disimpegno, l'approccio ironico, la decostruzione e in definitiva lo scetticismo, il relativismo, la mancanza di senso. Nel secondo paragrafo, approfondiremo la sfida filosofica che il Metamodernismo intraprende per recuperare il soggetto e il progetto dell'autonomia proprio dei moderni senza ricadere nei limiti e nei vizi del pensiero della totalità, tipico di un certo declinarsi storico e concettuale del moderno, contro cui si sono levate le voci dei postmodernisti. Svolgeremo infine alcune considerazioni finali.
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L'arte come pratica e l'estetico come dimensione della vita sensibile, della sinestesia originaria in cui già sempre siamo immersi sono i cardini sui quali si fondano i tentativi contemporanei di superamento delle moderne concezioni... more
L'arte come pratica e l'estetico come dimensione della vita sensibile, della sinestesia originaria in cui già sempre siamo immersi sono i cardini sui quali si fondano i tentativi contemporanei di superamento delle moderne concezioni autoreferenziali e chiuse dell'arte per l'arte e della "coscienza estetica". L'estetico non sarebbe qualche cosa di separato dagli altri ambiti del sapere e della vita, ma al contrario sarebbe co-originario all'esperienza e la attraversa da cima a fondo. Il pensiero "pan-estetico" di Albright, che si nutre delle riflessioni sull'origine dell'opera d'arte in Heidegger e di quelle sulla corporeità estetica in Nancy, presenta tuttavia criticità e paradossi che nell'articolo vengono esaminati analiticamente, cercando di coglierne i punti di forza e di debolezza.
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Il mondo fenomenologico è il mondo della possibilità. Le essenze sono campi di possibilità che prevalgono logicamente sui casi concreti. La possibilità è un passaggio gnoseologico obbligato per il raggiungimento della verità. In... more
Il mondo fenomenologico è il mondo della possibilità. Le essenze sono campi di possibilità che prevalgono logicamente sui casi concreti. La possibilità è un passaggio gnoseologico obbligato per il raggiungimento della verità. In Esperienza e Giudizio appare chiaro che, se al giudizio pertiene la valutazione di verità o falsità, all'esperienza, relativa all'io empirico che si muove nel mondo, appartiene la dimensione della possibilità. In che misura, nel pensiero del padre della Fenomenologia, la possibilità resta però funzionalizzata alla verità, come un mero passaggio da superare nella direzione del giudizio certo ed universale? Se il pensiero logico husserliano sembra intendere in effetti la possibilità come condizione da oltrepassare nella certezza, vi sono numerosi altri segni che testimoniano il passaggio, nella fenomenologia, a una concezione meno strumentale e, in fondo, più contemporanea della possibilità come cifra di una razionalità incarnata.
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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... 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.
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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... 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.
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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... 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.
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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... 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.
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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... 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.
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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... 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.
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.
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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.
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La filosofia della geografia è un terreno ancora ampiamente inesplorato. Si propone qui un primo approccio di carattere fenomenologico.
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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,... 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.