Ugo Perone

The title of this essay suggests a chiasm that interweaves name and image, difference and identity. Neither a zero-sum equation nor an analogy where known meets unknown, this chiasm points out an unresolved knot that cannot be simply unravelled just cutting it. Besides parallelisms in each tradition, both name and image include identity and difference – between themselves and the objects they design. The aim of this short essay is to investigate difference and identity, not simply stating the two terms, but searching the relation between them

The eulogy of philosophy is the impossible and necessary praise of a discipline all at the same time,as modern philosophy is subject to a twofold condition of being detached from truth and not living without truth; needing and waiting for truth, without really wishing it. According to the Author who draws a global balance of his theory, philosophy is that action of the man searching for his measure in saying how things are but so as to allow the full manifestation of things ; and further on, in such a way that this manifestation engages responsibly in the respect and protection not only of the thing said but also of every other thing and every other speaker.