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5STUDIES ON PLOTINUS - (L.) Ferroni, (D.P.) Taormina (edd.) Plotinus IV 7 (2) On the Immortality of the Soul. Studies on the Text and its Contexts. (Academia Philosophical Studies 79.) Pp. 292. Baden-Baden: Academia, 2022. Paper, €64. ISBN: 978-3-89665-998-9 (review)The Classical Review 1-3. forthcoming.
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38Review of Sarah Broadie’s Plato’s Sun-Like Good: Dialectic in the Republic (review)Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 44 (1): 295-300. 2023.
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11Le féminisme de la reproduction sociale et ses critiquesActuel Marx 70 (2): 30-44. 2021.Les théories féministes de la reproduction ont été soumises à trois types d’objections : elles seraient soit fonctionnalistes, soit économicistes, ou biologisantes. Ces objections reposent sur un contresens concernant les notions marxistes de production et reproduction ainsi que sur une conception réifiée de la nature des sociétés capitalistes. De plus, ces objections ne sont pas capables de proposer une alternative convaincante et débouchent sur des impasses comme celles qui sont propres aux th…Read more
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11Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity (edited book)Brill. 2016.Edited by Cinzia Arruzza and Dmitri Nikulin, _Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity_ is a collection of essays examining reflections by ancient philosophers on the implicit tension between political activity and the philosophical life from a variety of critical perspectives.
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29IntroductionHistorical Materialism 24 (4): 3-8. 2016.This text introduces a symposium on the thought and legacy of the French Marxist, Daniel Bensaïd. The authors consider Bensaïd’s theoretical contributions to Marxism, especially the concepts of temporality, political strategy, and revolutionary organisation, as well as his ability to fuse militant activism and intellectual work. This is followed by brief summaries of the articles gathered in the symposium, and a reflection on Bensaïd’s relevance for future Marxist research.
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40Wearing Virtue: Plato’s Republic V, 449a-457b and the Socratic Debate on Women’s NatureArchai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 33 03306-03306. 2023.In Plato’s _Republic_ V, 449a-457b, Socrates argues that the guardian class of Kallipolis will comprise both men and women and that women with the appropriate nature ought to receive the same education and fulfill the same tasks as their male counterparts. In this article I argue, against competing interpretations of this claim as dependent either on the necessity of abolishing the oikos or on eugenic principles, that Socrates’ argument ought to be understood as a genuine argument about women’s …Read more
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19Feminism for the 99 percent: a manifestoVerso. 2019.Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change--these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren't they the biggest issues for the vast majority of women around the globe? Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist militancy that has erupted globally, this manifesto makes a simple but powerful case: feminism shouldn't start--or stop--with the drive to have women represented at the top of their professions. It must focus…Read more
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12Plotinus, Ennead II.5: On What Is Potentially and What Actually. Translation with an Introduction and Commentary.Parmenides Publishing. 2015.The significance of the notions of actuality and potentiality in Plotinus' thought can hardly be overstated. Throughout the Enneads, they are crucial to understanding the specific causality of intelligible realities and the relation of participation between intelligible and sensible realms. In Ennead II.5, Plotinus for the first time provides a systematic clarification of his peculiar use of these terms, through a sustained revision of Aristotle's own elaboration of the topic and of his terminol…Read more
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28‘Cleaning the City’: Plato and Popper on Political ChangePolis 29 (2): 259-285. 2012.This paper examines an issue that seems particularly overlooked in the debate on Plato and Popper, namely that of political change. The aim of the paper is to challenge the largely unchallenged assumption that modern liberal democracy can play the role of the general standard, upon which basis we can judge the thinkers of the past. Indeed, in the Open Society liberal democracy sets the boundaries of what is considered as a ‘rational’ political change, thus revealing that Popper holds a form of t…Read more
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36Aleatory Feminism in Emanuela Bianchi’s The Feminine SymptomPhilosophy Today 62 (3): 1019-1024. 2018.
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68Capitalism and the Conflict over UniversalityPhilosophy Today 61 (4): 847-861. 2017.In this paper I adopt Étienne Balibar’s distinction between three forms of universality—“universality as reality,” “fictive universality,” and “ideal universality”—in order to retrieve universalism for feminist politics. The paper articulates a proposal for the feminist adoption of a specific notion of universality, which I call political insurgent universality. This notion is not based on a definition of human essence or of women's nature. It is rather rooted in the “real universality” historic…Read more
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76‘Un paradigma in cielo’. Platone politico da Aristotele al Novecento, Mario Vegetti, Rome: Carocci, 2009Historical Materialism 21 (1): 185-195. 2013.
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279Gender as Social Temporality: Butler (and Marx)Historical Materialism 23 (1): 28-52. 2015.This article addresses the notions of gender performativity and temporality in Butler’s early work on gender. The paper is articulated in four steps. First it gives an account of the role and nature of temporality in Butler’s theory of gender performativity. Second, it shows some similarities and connections between the role played by temporality in Butler’s theory of gender performativity and its role in Marx’s analysis of capital. Third, it raises some criticisms of Butler’s understanding of t…Read more
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46Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics, by Kevin M. CherryAncient Philosophy 34 (2): 432-436. 2014.
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La matière immatérielle chez Grégoire de NysseFreiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 54 (1/2): 215-223. 2007.
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20Passive Potentiality in the Physical Realm: Plotinus' Critique of Aristotle in Enneads II 5 [25]Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 93 (1): 24-57. 2011.This article analyzes the status of passive potentiality of prime matter and sensible objects in Plotinus' Enneads. In particular, it will focus on Enneads II 5 [25] and confront it with other treatises, specifically Enneads III 6 [26]; II 6 [17]; VI 2 [43] and VI 3 [44]. It aims at offering a new interpretation of treatise 25 and at proposing a reconstruction of Plotinus' notion of change in the sensible realm that illustrates both his critique of Aristotle's notion of substantial change and hi…Read more
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44The private and the common in Plato's RepublicHistory of Political Thought 32 (2): 215-233. 2011.This article deals with the issue of the abolition of both property and family for the Guardians in Plato's Republic. My aim is to show that such abolition answers to the problem of the art of ruling raised in Book I: how can the rulers rule not in their own interest, but rather in the interest of the ruled? The abolition of property and family changes the very economic and social framework of the city, leading to an identity of the private interests of the rulers and of the common interests of …Read more
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42Marx’s Gendered TemporalitiesHistorical Materialism 23 (4): 49-59. 2015.Massimiliano Tomba’s book, Marx’s Temporalities, stresses the centrality of the body for the critique of exploitation and suggests that a new phenotype is produced by consumerism and by the dynamic of capitalist accumulation, with its plural temporalities. However, both the body of the worker and the new phenotype do not appear to have a sex or a gender in Tomba’s book. In this intervention, I read some of Tomba’s insights about the body, the new phenotype, and primary accumulation in the light …Read more
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |