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    The role of experience in Hegel's conception of the relation to nature
    Southern Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.
    This article explores Hegel's conception of experience, positing it as the entry point for grasping the implications of the philosophy of nature. The article briefly examines Hegel's view of nature, focusing on its transformative journey from externality to integration with the conscious I. Subsequently, the purpose of Hegel's philosophy of nature is discussed, and recent interpretations are compared. The article unfolds the notion of experience as a bridge between the subjective dimension explo…Read more
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    Kenosis, Nature, and Anthropocentrism: A Response to Fulvi
    Comparative and Continental Philosophy 14 (3): 205-216. 2022.
    In this paper I address the issues raised by Daniele Fulvi, by focusing on the alleged anthropocentrism of my approach to kenotic thought. I defend ontological anthropocentrism (as opposed to ethical anthropocentrism), arguing that a qualified ontological anthropocentrism is not only inevitable, but also more appropriate in order to think of nature in the context of kenotic thought. Subsequently, I address the question of the relation between kenosis and truth, and the issue of how kenotic thoug…Read more
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    Christ as symbol in Kant¿s religion -- Hegel's conception of God -- The reality of religion in Hegel's idealist metaphysics -- Hegel's version of the ontological argument for the existence of God -- The trinity and the I -- The death of God and recognition of the self -- Beyond subjectivism -- The relevance of Hegel's philosophy of religion today.
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    Intellectual sacrifice and other mimetic paradoxes
    Michigan State University Press. 2018.
    Intellectual sacrifice -- Intellectual expulsion -- Historical forms of mystification -- The path of demystification -- Conclusion -- A brief letter from René Girard -- Other mimetic paradoxes -- Interlude: corrections and paradoxes -- Girard's ontological argument for the existence of God -- Mimetic theory's post-Kantian legacy -- Mimetic theory and hermeneutic Communism -- The self in crisis -- Hermeneutic mimetic theory.
  • A sacrificial crisis not far away: Star wars as a genuinely modern mythology
    In Paolo Diego Bubbio & Chris Fleming (eds.), Mimetic theory and film, Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
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    Mimetic theory and film (edited book)
    with Chris Fleming
    Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
    The interdisciplinary French-American thinker René Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the humanities in the last half-century. The title of René Girard's first book offered his own thesis in summary form: romantic lie and novelistic truth [mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque]. And yet, for a thinker whose career began by an engagement with literature, it came as a shock to some that, in La Conversion de l'art, Girard asserted that the novel may be an “outmoded” form …Read more
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    Immanence in Schelling and Hegel in the Jena Period
    with Daniele Fulvi
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 60 (3): 353-387. 2022.
    In this article, we argue that in the Jena period (1801–1803) Schelling and Hegel both rejected the conception of God as coinciding with the moral order, which they attribute to Fichte; such coincidence, in their view, turned God into a transcendent and merely moral Being. In an effort to demonstrate their distance from Fichte's view, we contend, Schelling and Hegel advocated for a metaphysical (rather than merely moral) and immanent (rather than transcendent) understanding of God, conceived in …Read more
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    Reply to On the Hegelian Doctrine, or: Absolute Knowledge and Modern Pantheism
    with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Sarah Bacaller
    Journal of Continental Philosophy 2 (2): 349-377. 2021.
    In this review, Hegel responds to criticisms leveled against his philosophy by the anonymous author of Ueber die Hegelsche Lehre, oder: absolutes Wissen und moderner Pantheismus (1829). Frustrated by his interlocutor’s apparent inability to coherently interpret his work, Hegel scathingly attempts to discredit the character of the text in focus and its author’s critical capacity. He does so by showcasing examples of misrepresentation and misunderstanding in the author’s writing. Hegel contests th…Read more
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    Interpretation, Religion, Politics: A Conversation
    with Gianni Vattimo
    Journal of Continental Philosophy 2 (2): 333-347. 2021.
    In this 2017 conversation, Gianni Vattimo discusses with Paolo Diego Bubbio the core themes of his own philosophical journey. Vattimo first comments on the legacy of his mentor Luigi Pareyson and on the differences between Pareyson’s conception of the relation between truth and interpretation and his own. Vattimo and Bubbio then elaborate on the return to Hegel and the possibility of a “hermeneuticized” Hegelianism. The participants also discuss Vattimo’s view of religion and the role that the C…Read more
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    Interpreting the World Is Transforming the World
    with Gianni Vattimo
    Journal of Continental Philosophy 1 (1): 77-84. 2020.
    Vattimo argues that the core of Gadamer’s hermeneutics resides in the identification of interpreting with changing the world, and analyzes the ontological turn in hermeneutics in light of such identification. Vattimo advocates for a radical reading of Gadamer’s claim “Being, which can be understood, is language” and maintains that hermeneutics requires a profound revolution in ontology, overcoming the idea of Being as a given object “out there”. In light of the dialogue that Gadamer’s Truth and …Read more
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    Perspectivity, Intersubjectivity, Normativity: On Malpas’s Place and Experience
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 28 (2): 285-299. 2020.
    The publication of the revised edition of Jeff Malpas’s Place and Experience in 2018 gives the opportunity to reconsider this book and the debates that it originally...
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    Why Philosophy? (edited book)
    De Gruyter. 2019.
    Do we really need philosophy? The present collection of jargon-free essays aims at answering the question of why philosophy matters. Each essay considers the central question from different angles: the unavoidability of doing philosophy, the practical consequences of philosophy, philosophy as a therapy for the whole person, the benefits of philosophy for improving public policy, etc.
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    Hegel: From the I to the Spirit
    Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (1): 115-132. 2019.
    The author argues that one of the “circles” that constitute Hegel’s philosophical system, as it is displayed in the Encyclopedia, is the circle between the I and the spirit. Specifically, the author focuses on the emergence of spirit as a self and an I, and on the encounter of the I with nature. The author also argues that absolute spirit maintains fundamental intersubjective and perspectival features that are proper to the I, and that grasping the circular movement between the I and the spirit …Read more
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    Metaphilosophical Reflections on Theism and Atheism in the Current Debate
    In Philip Andrew Quadrio & Carrol Besseling (eds.), Politics and Religion in the New Century: Philosophical Reflections, Sydney University Press. pp. 354-381. 2009.
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    Not Just a Metaphor
    Philosophy Today 63 (2): 561-565. 2019.
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    Hegel, Logic and Speculation (edited book)
    with Alessandro De Cesaris, Maurizio Pagano, and Hager Weslati
    Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
    This book offers new critical perspectives on the relationship between the notions of speculation, logic and reality in Hegel's thought as basis for his philosophical account of nature, history, spirit and human experience. The systematic functions of logic and pure thought are explored in their concrete forms and processual progression from subjective spirit to philosophy of right, society, the notion of habit, the idea of work, art, religion and science. Engaging the relation between the Logic…Read more
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    The Reality of Religion in Hegel’s Idealist Metaphysics
    Hegel Bulletin 37 (2): 232-257. 2016.
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    Self and Nature in Heidegger
    Research in Phenomenology 48 (2): 175-196. 2018.
    _ Source: _Volume 48, Issue 2, pp 175 - 196 This article provides an analysis of the development of the notions of “self” and “nature” through three stages of Heidegger’s thought. The main contention is that Heidegger’s conceptions of the self and nature are indissolubly connected to each other, and that such connection appears through three concerns that represent important elements of continuity: 1) the “irreducibility of the self,” conceived in a non-subjectivist way; 2) the recovery of a non…Read more
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    Organicism and Perspectivism from Leibniz to Hegel
    Philosophy Today 61 (3): 785-791. 2017.
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    Review of Chris Fleming, Rene Girard: Violence and Mimesis (review)
    Australian Religious Studies Review 21 (1): 96-97. 2008.
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    _An examination of the philosophical notion of sacrifice from Kant to Nietzsche._
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    Kierkegaard’s Regulative Sacrifice: A Post-Kantian Reading of Fear and Trembling
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 20 (5): 691-723. 2012.
    The present paper suggests to consider Kierkegaard’s use of Abraham’s story in Fear and Trembling in regulative terms, that is, to consider it as a model – not for our moral behaviour but rather for our religious behaviour. To do so, I first rely on recent literature to argue that Kierkegaard should be regarded as a distinctively post-Kantian philosopher: namely, a philosopher who goes beyond Kant in a way that is nevertheless true to the spirit of Kant’s original critical philosophy. Then, I pr…Read more
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    It may seem strange to connect the ontological argument for God‟s existence with René Girard‟s thought. My first aim is to clarify this connection.In order to do so, we must first suggest three distinct hermeneutical approaches to Girard. Ifwe take an internal, literal approach, we find that Girard writes nothing about theontological proof. Nevertheless, he does cite Anselm. If we take an internal, nonliteral approach to Girard, we can try to deduce what he might have thought about the ontologic…Read more
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    The relationship of philosophy to religion today (edited book)
    Cambridge Scholars Press. 2011.
    The Relationship of Philosophy to Religion Today is a collection of texts authored by philosophers with an interest in contemporary philosophy of religion, its merits and its limitations. The collection has been stimulated by such questions as: "What ought philosophy of religion be?" and "How ought philosophy relate to religion today?" In pursuing such questions, the editors have asked the contributors to offer their insights and reflections on issues that they see as important to contemporary p…Read more
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    On Søren Kierkegaard (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 62 (3): 675-676. 2009.