Maurizio Ferraris

Documanidad

Umberto Eco

Massimo Recalcati

Akeel Bilgrami

Hilary Putnam

John R. Searle

Mario De Caro

Carol Rovane

Diego Marconi

Michele Di Francesco

«In particolare, il nuovo realismo dice che la decostruzione e la critica non sono affatto equilibrismi da funamboli. In filosofia occorre saper riconoscere che cosa è culturalmente e socialmente costruito e cosa non lo è, oltre a tutte le infinite posizioni intermedie. Il vero lavoro del filosofo incomincia da qui, le tessere, siano esse quelle dell'antirealismo o del realismo, da sole non bastano, e ci auguriamo che questo volume testimoni non solo di un desiderio politico-culturale, ma anche di un lavoro». Bentornata realtà. Il nuovo realismo in discussione (a cura di Mario De Caro e Maurizio Ferraris) *** La questione filosofica oggi piú dibattuta negli interventi di dieci protagonisti.

Bentornata realtà

L'immaginazione

Jaques Derrida

In this series of dialogues, Derrida discusses and elaborates on some of the central themes of his work, such as the problems of genesis, justice, authorship and death. Combining autobiographical reflection with philosophical enquiry, Derrida illuminates the ideas that have characterized his thought from its beginning to the present day. If there is one feature that links these contributions, it is the theme of singularity - the uniqueness of the individual, the resistance of existence to philosophy, the temporality of the singular and exceptional moment, and the problem of exemplarity. The second half of this book contains an essay by Maurizio Ferraris, in which he explores the questions of indication, time and the inscription of the transcendental in the empirical. A work of outstanding philosophy and scholarship, the essay is developed in close proximity to Derrida and in dialogue with figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Kant, Hegel and Heidegger. It thereby provides a useful introduction to the philosophy of one of Italy's most prominent philosophers as well as an excellent complement to Derrida's own ideas. A Taste for the Secret consists of material that has never before appeared in English. It will be of interest to second-year undergraduates, graduate students and academics in philosophy, modern languages, literature, literary theory and the humanities generally.

A Taste for the Secret

Enrico Terrone

The essays presented in this volume investigate the relationship between cinema and ontology. This investigation unfolds, on the one hand, through an ontological understanding of cinema, that is, an understanding of the specificity of if its being. On the other hand, it highlights the ways in which cinema can help us to shed some light on the domain of ontology, namely, what exists. The five sections of this volume, each containing a pair of complementary essays, analyse the following topics: the place of cinema in the system of the arts, the connection between cinematic realism and philosophical realism, the transition from analog to digital cinema, the specificity of films made through cell phones, and the representation of non-human animals in films.

Cinema and Ontology

Internet es el mayor instrumento de registro que la humanidad ha desarrollado hasta la fecha, lo que explica la importancia de los cambios que ha desencadenado. Basta con pensar que, a pesar de que más de una de cada dos personas aún no posee un teléfono móvil, el número de dispositivos conectados a la red es de 23.000 millones: más de tres veces la población mundial. Cada día, esta conectividad produce una cantidad de "objetos socialmente relevantes" mayor que lo que se produce en todas las fábricas del mundo: una inmensa mole de datos, contactos, transacciones y huellas que quedan codificados en 2,5 trillones de bytes. El número de símbolos que tenemos a nuestra disposición para manipularlos y combinarlos se ha vuelto infinitamente más alto que en cualquier otra cultura precedente, y esto lo cambia todo. Por esto, comprender la naturaleza de la web es el primer paso hacia la comprensión de la revolución en curso, que genera un nuevo mundo, un nuevo capital, una nueva humanidad: es decir, una "documanidad". Este libro está dedicado precisamente a la revisión radical y la reconstrucción conceptual de la forma en que miramos a la técnica, a la humanidad y al capital.

Filosofía del nuevo mundo

Guido Saracco

Il farmaco più potente a disposizione della scimmia nuda è la tecnica, e la tecnica più potente è il capitale. L'alleanza tra tecnologia e umanesimo può potenziare questo capitale a beneficio di tutti, trasformandolo in un patrimonio dell'umanità. Quanto più la tecnologia e l'umanesimo sapranno interagire, tanto più l'umanità solcherà positivamente la strada del progresso. È questa l'idea che ispira questo libro, frutto della collaborazione tra un filosofo e un tecnologo. Entrambi, infatti, promuovono un giudizio positivo sulla tecnologia perché se è vero – seguendo l'etimo greco – che è insieme un veleno e un rimedio, è innegabile che la capacità tecnologica appartiene all'umanità sin dalle sue origini. E risiede in essa la capacità di conservare e moltiplicare il valore dei suoi beni materiali e culturali a beneficio delle generazioni future.

Tecnologia e umanesimo per una scienza nuova

Tecnosofia

However you view the present time, it is a new century, a new world, and also a new humanity - in fact, humanity is not something that was ever defined once and for all, but remains an open project. For several decades we have been witnessing a revolution. However, unlike the political and ideological revolutions that took place around the First World War, this is a technological and much more radical one that does not depend on people's beliefs, but rather on the tireless labour of machines. The rise of automation has brought about a revelation of something that had hitherto remained hidden in the workshops of homo faber. That is, there are very few functions, apart from consumption, where a machine cannot replace a human being, be these material or spiritual - machines need energy, but they can also do without it, whereas humans die if deprived of it, or one can imagine a machine producing symphonies, but not enjoying them. So while human beings are still needed, their roles and scopes have to be reconsidered. Workers may be superfluous, but humans are still needed, including those who until recently only recognised themselves as producers. The exclusion of workers from production does not discount humans being able to produce value in the form of consumption. Recognising this will enable us to conceive the "Webfare" - a new digital system that will teach us to find new names and new forms, more tolerance and room for traditional human needs. Above all, it will teach us how to transform the time given to us by automation into an opportunity for progress.

Doc-Humanity

Markus Gabriel

Iain Hamilton Grant

Speculations on Anonymous Materials

In the following three chapters, Ferraris examines the universalization of the domain of interpretation with Heidegger, the development of Heideggerian philosophical hermeneutics with Gadamer and Derrida, and the relation between hermeneutics and epistemology, on the one hand, and the human sciences, on the other.

History of Hermeneutics

This book sheds light on the most philosophically interesting of contemporary objects: the cell phone. “Where are you?”—a question asked over cell phones myriad times each day—is arguably the most philosophical question of our age, given the transformation of presence the cell phone has wrought in contemporary social life and public space. Throughout all public spaces, cell phones are now a ubiquitous prosthesis of what Descartes and Hegel once considered the absolute tool: the hand. Their power comes in part from their ability to move about with us—they are like a computer, but we can carry them with us at all times—in part from what they attach to us (and how), as all that computational and connective power becomes both handy and hand-sized. Quite surprisingly, despite their name, one might argue, as Ferraris does, that cell phones are not really all that good for sound and speaking. Instead, the main philosophical point of this book is that mobile phones have come into their own as writing machines—they function best for text messages, e-mail, and archives of all kinds. Their philosophical urgency lies in the manner in which they carry us from the effects of voice over into reliance upon the written traces that are, Ferraris argues, the basic stuff of human culture. Ontology is the study of what there is, and what there is in our age is a huge network of documents, papers, and texts of all kinds. Social reality is not constructed by collective intentionality; rather, it is made up of inscribed acts. As Derrida already prophesized, our world revolves around writing. Cell phones have attached writing to our fingers and dragged it into public spaces in a new way. This is why, with their power to obliterate or morph presence and replace voice with writing, the cell phone is such a philosophically interesting object.

An Ontology of the Cell Phone

Where Are You?

Positive Realism could be seen as the "sequel" to Maurizio Ferraris' Manifesto of New Realism and Introduction to New Realism. The focus here is the other side of unamendability: a notion, described in his previous books, according to which reality is "unamendable", it cannot be corrected at will. This "resistance" of the real is what ultimately tells us that, in opposition to the claims of post-Kantian philosophy, the world is not a result of our conceptual work: if it were so, our power over reality would be much greater. Now, the often disappointing limits that the real sets against our expectations are also a resource: and this is the key point of the present book. Things exist, and therefore undoubtedly resist us, but in doing so they offer affordances, resources, opportunities. And that the greatest opportunity, which underlies all the other ones, is the fact that we share a world that is far from liquid: on the contrary, it provides the solid ground on which everything rests, starting from our happiness or unhappiness.

Positive Realism

John Rogers Searle

Angela Condello

Presenting legal and philosophical essays on money, this book explores the conditions according to which an object like a piece of paper, or an electronic signal, has come to be seen as having a value. Money plays a crucial role in the regulation of social relationships and their normative determination. It is thus integral to the very nature of the “social”, and the question of how society is kept together by a network of agreements, conventions, exchanges, and codes. All of which must be traced down. The technologies of money discussed here by Searle, Ferraris, and Condello show how we conceive the category of the social at the intersection of individual and collective intentionality, documentality, and materiality. All of these dimensions, as the introduction to this volume demonstrates, are of vital importance for legal theory and for a whole set of legal concepts that are crucial in reflections on the relationship between law, philosophy, and society.

Money, Social Ontology and Law

Introduction to New Realism provides an overview of the movement of contemporary thought named New Realism, by its creator and most celebrated practitioner, Maurizio Ferraris. Sharing significant concerns and features with Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology, New Realism can be said to be one of the most prescient philosophical positions today. Its desire to overcome the postmodern antirealism of Kantian origin, and to reassert the importance of truth and objectivity in the name of a new Enlightenment, has had an enormous resonance both in Europe and in the US. Introduction to New Realism is the first volume dedicated to exposing this continental movement to an anglophone audience. Featuring a foreword by the eminent contemporary philosopher and leading exponent of Speculative Realism, Iain Hamilton Grant, the book begins by tracing the genesis of New Realism, and outlining its central theoretical tenets, before opening onto three distinct sections. The first, 'Negativity', is a critique of the postmodern idea that the world is constructed by our conceptual schemas, all the more so as we have entered the age of digitality and virtuality. The second thesis, 'positivity', proposes the fundamental ontological assertion of New Realism, namely that not only are there parts of reality that are independent of thought, but these parts are also able to act causally over thought and the human world. The third thesis, 'normativity,' applies New Realism to the sphere of the social world. Finally, an afterword written by two young scholars explains in more detail the relationship between New Realism and other forms of contemporary realism.

Introduction to New Realism

Richard Grusin

Mauro Carbone

Roberto Diodato

Alberto Abruzzese

Massimo Carboni

Antonio Somaini

Andrea Pinotti

Francesco Casetti

Antonio Costa

Piero Boitani

Giuseppe Di Giacomo

Herman Parret

Gianfranco Bettetini

Ruggero Eugeni

Valentina Valentini

Giovanni Careri

Claudia Cieri Via

Massimo De Carolis

Massimo Prampolini

Isabella Pezzini

Roberto Perpignani

Roberto De Gaetano

Alfredo Pirri

Franco Maresco

Leonardo Amoroso

Francesco Antinucci

Silvana Borutti

Romeo Bufalo

Stefano Catucci

Pina De Luca

Georges Didi

Huberman

Edoardo Ferrario

Tarcisio Lancioni

Enrica Lisciani Petrini

Giovanna Pinna

Elena Tavani

Stefano Velotti

Costanza Quatriglio

Mario Sasso

Daniele Guastini

Adriano Ardovino

I percorsi dell’immaginazione. Studi in onore di Pietro Montani è un volume che vuole rendere omaggio a uno dei maggiori studiosi italiani di estetica, di cinema, di arti e nuove tecnologie. Diviso in cinque sezioni (Filosofia, Semiotica e teoria dei linguaggi, Cinema, Teoria delle arti e Tecnica e media), che sono altrettante articolazioni di analisi e di riflessione sul presente e la contemporaneità, il libro si avvale della partecipazione di illustri studiosi italiani e internazionali: Alberto Abruzzese, Leonardo Amoroso, Francesco Antinucci, Gianfranco Bettetini, Piero Boitani, Silvana Borutti, Romeo Bufalo, Mauro Carbone, Massimo Carboni, Giovanni Careri, Francesco Casetti, Stefano Catucci, Claudia Cieri Via, Antonio Costa, Massimo De Carolis, Roberto De Gaetano, Pina De Luca, Georges Didi-Huberman, Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Roberto Diodato, Ruggero Eugeni, Edoardo Ferrario, Maurizio Ferraris, Richard Grusin, Tarcisio Lancioni, Enrica Lisciani Petrini, Herman Parret, Isabella Pezzini, Giovanna Pinna, Andrea Pinotti, Massimo Prampolini, Antonio Somaini, Elena Tavani, Valentina Valentini, Stefano Velotti. Ogni sezione è inoltre chiusa da una conversazione con un artista: Franco Maresco, Roberto Perpignani, Alfredo Pirri, Costanza Quatriglio e Mario Sasso. Il volume è curato da Daniele Guastini e Adriano Ardovino.

I percorsi dell'immaginazione. Studi in onore di Pietro Montani

Una chiara e originale trattazione dei problemi e degli interrogativi dell'ermeneutica, uno stile filosofico che ha caratterizzato la cultura contemporanea.

L'ermeneutica

Introduzione a Derrida

La profonda riflessione di Ferraris ruota tutta intorno a una semplice, inquietante, ironica domanda: chi ce lo fa fare ad essere sempre connessi? Nell'era della sorveglianza digitale di massa ragionare sulla radice del problema significa mettere a fuoco, identificare, dare un nome al problema stesso. Per Maurizio Ferraris il problema si chiama mobilitazione totale. Fabio Chiusi, "la Repubblica" Con penna divertita, sgombrando la strada da banalità e frasi fatte, Maurizio Ferraris continua ad aggiornare la filosofia. 'Connessa', l'umanità non è semplicemente 'alienata', come pretende il filosofo benpensante, ma è 'mobilitata'. Il web è l''alienazione 2.0': panopticon diffuso, macchina bellica e burocratica estesa sull'intero pianeta che non schiaccia ma esalta la natura umana. "Sette - Corriere della Sera" Tutti sappiamo cosa significhi ricevere una notifica email in piena notte: quel trillo non è solo una comunicazione, è un invito individuale all'azione che non riusciamo a lasciare inevaso. Il risultato è una condizione di militarizzazione della vita di milioni di mobilitati, un'incessante certificazione di ordini cui ognuno si sottopone senza difendersi. Anna Li Vigni, "Il Sole 24 Ore"

Mobilitazione totale

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