Paradosso. Rivista di filosofia

01/07/2025

- Per pensare radicalmente al presente e portarlo al concetto, è necessario saper cogliere quella piega segreta e inattuale (fuori dal tempo: non rivolta al passato ma, nel senso nietzscheano, anticipatrice) che porta in sé, come dice Kant, il signum prognostikon di un futuro, di un ad-veniens inteso non come un “orizzonte”, ma come un’“energia” simbolica capace di produrre un’apertura dell’esperienza verso il futuro. -

Questa citazione è tratta dal saggio conclusivo d'autore di Giacomo Marramao, intitolato "Paradossi del tempo". Lo scritto chiude il volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

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Il concetto di “tempo” rappresenta uno dei temi portanti e trasversali della riflessione filosofica occidentale. Al di là del quotidiano tempo cronologico, che scandisce il vivere ordinario e lineare, l’esperienza della temporalità rivela elementi di discontinuità ed eccezione, feconde anom...

26/06/2025

L'articolo di Emanuela Fornari parla di "Valore e Simulacro. Il tempo iperreale del Cybercapitalismo", e è raccolto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

The essay thematizes the new condition of cybercapitalism by focusing on the overcoming of the classic partitions that have governed historical capitalism (material/immaterial, work/production, use value/exchange value) as well as, on a theoretical level, the insufficiency of theoretical model of the «original situation» shared by economists and political philosophers. Economic science does not have to do with the figure of homo oeconomicus but with an original violation, contained in the asymmetry that regulates social actors. From this point of view, the essay takes up the theses formulated by Jean Baudrillard on hypercapitalism, intertwining them with the analyzes of Maurizio Lazzarato and Arjiun Appadurai on the new financial capitalism. A similar line of reflection on the concept of value is found in Marcel Mauss, who however in his analysis of the gift proposes an alter- native model of establishing the social bond.

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23/06/2025

Oggi vorremmo consigliarvi il saggio di Silvia Locatelli intitolato
"Luce Irigaray. The Time of Sexual Difference". L'articolo è contenuto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

In this paper, an attempt will be made to analyze the time of s*xuate difference, so as to understand (a) in what consists a temporal characterization that takes into account s*xuate difference, (b) which temporal dimension is proper to s*xuate difference. In particular, in order to do so, we will try to outline what s*xuate difference means in Luce Irigaray’s thought, analyzing how this term departs from the common distinction between s*x and gender, while taking into serious consideration the relationship with nature and culture. Next, we will outline patriarchal time and the time of s*xuate difference, showing how the former is unable to guarantee an authentic encounter with the other of s*xuate difference, as it does not promote a dialectical relationship between the subject and the surround- ing world. On the contrary, the time of s*xuate difference opens to a different temporal possibility, where past, present and future encounter meaningful resignifications in their mutual relationship. Finally, we will ask what is the time, in the sense of epoch, of s*xuate difference, showing its constitutively future-directed character.

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27/05/2025

L'articolo di Lorenza Bottacin Cantoni, che oggi vi consigliamo, si intitola "Blowing up kairos. Photography as a trigger for moral action in Susan Sontag", ed è raccolto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

This paper explores the role of photography as an agent that both captures and distorts reality, focusing on Susan Sontag’s reflections on the photographic medium. Inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni’s film "Blow-Up", the discussion centers on how photography influences perception, detaching observers from reality and reframing it through a lens that can be both revelatory and deceptive. Sontag’s work critiques the dual nature of photography: while it offers an illusion of timeless truth, it also transforms reality into an anesthe- tized narrative, often reducing complex experiences to consumable visuals. Photography, in Sontag’s analysis, oscillates between stasis and action, capable of either diminishing human agency by arresting kairos – the opportune moment for decision – or expanding it, triggering moral responses. The paper delves into the philosophical tension between the aesthetic beauty of photography and its ethical implications, considering how repeated exposure to images of suffering shapes collective consciousness. Through an examination of Sontag’s On Photography and Regarding the Pain of Others, the paper argues that photography, while inherently tied to death and detachment, has the potential to awaken moral awareness, thereby transforming passive observation into active engagement. Ultimately, this work investigates whether photography as “kairography” – the writing of opportune moments – can empower viewers to confront and act upon reality rather than merely aestheticizing it.

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22/05/2025

L'articolo scritto da Monica Gorza esamina "L’instant de l’initiative, «force du présent» chez Paul Ricœur". Il saggio è raccolto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

According to Ricœur, the cultural experience of time takes shape in language. More precisely, this experience begins with a lamentation that man utters when cosmic time breaches lived time. Firstly, this article aims to present Ricœur’s conception of time as “time with a present” (subjective time in the soul), “time without a present” (objective time of the cosmos), and the “third time” of the calendar. Secondly, this contribution analyzes Ricœur’s reflection on biblical lamentation as a speech act capable of converging a historical (communal) present and a living (individual) present in the incarnate word. Thirdly, the article focuses on Ricœur’s proposal to introduce the concept of initiative as a category of action – both personal and social – capable of highlighting the “force of the present”. By counterbalancing human lamentation in the present moment, only initiative allows man to begin anew, together with others, without reducing himself to being a victim of his own time.

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20/05/2025

Chiara Pesaresi firma un saggio intitolato "La question du temps chez Patocka. Historicité, liberté, art", contenuto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

This article explores the question of time in Jan Patocˇka’s thought, aiming to highlight the intrinsic connection between the historicity of existence, the experience of freedom, and artistic creation. In the first section, Patocˇka’s critique of objective or spatialized time will be examined, followed by an analysis of his shift towards understanding time as a horizon. However, this notion of time will also be shown to be insufficient for fully accounting for the historicity of human existence, which involves a rupture with the given and an explicit relation to transcendence, thereby opening the path to the experience of freedom. Finally, art will be presented as the privileged space for the manifestation of this human freedom. Twentieth-century art, in particular, is seen by Patocˇka as a space of protest against supercivilization and the expansion of instrumental logic into every sphere of human life.

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16/05/2025

Il nostro consiglio di lettura è, per oggi, il saggio di Jacopo Ceccon intitolato "Éclair foudroyant! La duplice forma dell’istante in Jean Paul Sartre". L'articolo è contenuto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

The essay analyzes the dual nature of the instant in Jean-Paul Sartre, understood as a passive and active moment. In the passive form, the instant manifests itself through “nausea”, which reveals to the subject the absurdity of existence and imprisons him in the facticity of the past, without yet pushing him into action. This is the case of Antoine Roquentin, main character of the famous novel “Nausea”. The instant becomes active when the individual consciously chooses: in that moment, the subject breaks the cycle of repetition and takes his own destiny into his own hands. This «éclair foudroyant» allows the subject to project himself towards the future, transforming his own life from a condition imposed by the other into a free and responsible project. Sartre, therefore, conceives the instant as the fulcrum between passivity and action, where freedom is achieved in the moment in which one decides to be what one is not yet.

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18/04/2025

Oggi vi suggeriamo la lettura del saggio "Temporalità e inquietudine. Il 'divenire-di-casa' in Heidegger" di Francesco Cattaneo.
L'articolo è raccolto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

The conceptual constellation of “being-at-home”, “not-being-at-home” and “return- ing-home” deeply marks Heidegger’s thinking and its development through time. In the following contribution three are the texts mainly taken into consideration: Being and Time (1927), the Introduction to Metaphysics (1935) and Hölderlin’s Hymn «Der Ister» (1942). An in-depth discussion of these fundamental texts lets it emerge that the said conceptual con- stellation is understood in a substantially different way in the so called “first” and “second” Heidegger. Whereas initially “home” and “everydayness” are one and the same, and somehow anxiety awakens human beings from the world of the “they”, letting Dasein authentically be itself, later Heidegger underlines the need of a turn towards home, towards Being, i.e. the emerging-appearing-unfolding of all beings. This matter must be clarified in relation to Heidegger’s understanding of time: time is no longer the transcendental condition of Dasein’s experience of Being; it becomes instead the Geschichtlichkeit, the “historicality” of his “Being-Historical-Thinking”.

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11/04/2025

Questo venerdì vi consigliamo la lettura dell'articolo di Silvia Mocellin intitolato "The End of Time? From Benjamin’s 'Jetztzeit' to the Postmodern 'Nowism'".
Il saggio è contenuto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

The article explores the relationship between the concept of time and social dynamics, drawing on the reflections of Walter Benjamin and Zygmunt Bauman. Bauman describes the transition from “solid modernity” to “liquid modernity” through changes in temporal perceptions, where the future loses its utopian promise and becomes a source of anxiety and uncertainty: the compression of space and time, along with the ideology of the present, weakens social bonds and the capacity for collective action, reducing time to a fragmented sequence devoid of historical perspective. In this context, as Bauman himself seems to suggest in certain passages, it becomes compelling to revisit Walter Benjamin’s critique of the myth of infinite and inevitable progress. Benjamin proposes a non-linear conception of time, where past and future converge in the present as moments of potential revolution. The “interregnum” phase in which we currently live may, in fact, be that very Benjaminian Jetztzeit, where the opportunity for discontinuity arises – a glimpse through which to reclaim a fundamentally political perspective and lay the foundations for alternative constructions.

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04/04/2025

Il nostro suggerimento di lettura, per oggi, è rivolto al saggio di Giovanni Gurisatti dal titolo: "Alla ricerca dell’attimo perduto. Emergenza del tempo e tempo dell’emergenza tra Benjamin e Heidegger".
L'articolo è raccolto nel volume "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del Novecento", a cura di A. Giacomelli e G. Gurisatti.

In his 1979 text The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard pointed to the crisis of the 19th-century ‘grand narrative’ of history as progress as one of the fundamental characteristics of post-modernism. Baudrillard identifies in the postmodern society of simulacra a mass atrophy of historical experience, which sinks into the instantaneous real time of media-informational technologies. However, what is lost in the post-histoire is not only the grand récit of the time of progress, but also the petit récit of the eventual-kairological, apocalyptic-messianic time, which has in the qualitative ‘moment’, and not in the quantitative ‘instant’ its focus. In order to understand the crucial importance that the attimal time of the kairós had in the ‘neo-Messianic’ climate of early 20th-century Europe of the Krisis, a comparison is proposed here between the conceptions of time and history of Benjamin and Heidegger, two ‘incompatible’ authors who nevertheless, children of the same Zeitgeist, present surprising affinities, despite the radical difference in their respective political positions.

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31/03/2025

Oggi parliamo di "Attimo e catastrofe da Nietzsche a Ernst Jünger", tema trattato da Sandro Gorgone nel suo articolo per "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del novecento", curato da Alberto Giacomelli e Giovanni Gurisatti.

The paper aims to interpret, in the light of the Nietzschean idea of the immense instant and his theory of eternal return, on the one hand, the famous Benjaminian theses On the Concept of History, written on the brink of the immense historical catastrophe of World War II, in which the critique of historicism and progress leads to the delineation of a secularized thought of messianic interruption. On the other hand, the critique will be analysed carried out by Ernst Jünger of the idea of progress and the temporal continuum from the ontological paradigm of “total mobilization” and the discovery of existential temporality symbolized by the dust clock. Jünger sees the technical progress and the resulting “total mobilization” as a nihilistic and catastrophic phenomenon. This catastrophe of modernity embodies in his thoughts of the second postwar period the aspect of an apocalyptic vision of forms and irradiations, that allows to grasp another possible “cariological” experience of time.

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28/03/2025

Il nostro consiglio di lettura di oggi è rivolto al saggio di Alberto Giacomelli intitolato "Attimo immenso e chiliasmo. I tempi dell’eccezione in Nietzsche e in Ernst Bloch".
L'articolo è contenuto nel fascicolo "Istante e Attimo. La dimensione qualitativa del tempo nella filosofia del novecento",, curato da Alberto Giacomelli e Giovanni Gurisatti.

The essay aims to analyze, in its first part, the complex issue of temporality as conceived within Nietzsche’s writings. I have sought to highlight, from this perspective, the theoretical distinction between the notion of the “instant” and that of the “moment”, considering some decisive passages from The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. What emerges is an enigmatic and significant intertwining between “eternal recurrence” and the “immense moment”. I have also sought to bring to light, within the context of Nietzsche’s thought, the alternation of “intensive” and “intuitive” temporal ecstasies linked to kairos, as well as “mystical” experiences of time related to the notion of the “Great Noon”. In the second part of the essay, I analyzed the issue of temporality in relation to the themes of messian- ism, revolution, and utopia within the work of Ernst Bloch, with particular reference to his work Thomas Müntzer, Theologian of Revolution.

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