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22Brothers in arms: Adorno and Foucault on resistancePhilosophy and Social Criticism 1-26. 2023.This article offers a comparative exploration of the practices of resistance Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault champion against the structures of modern power their enquiries have the merit to illuminate and contest. After a preliminary examination of their views about the relationship between theory and praxis, I shall pursue two goals: first, I shall illustrate the limitations of Adorno’s negativist portrait of an ethics of resistance and contrast it with Foucault’s more promising notion of r…Read more
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14Foucault, Normativity, and Freedom: A ReappraisalFoucault Studies 27 (27): 23-46. 2019.The aim of this article is to contribute to the recently revived debate over the normativity of Foucault’s genealogical method. More specifically, I shall respond to Fraser’s charge that Foucault’s rejection of humanism is unjustified because he cannot state why a totally panopticized, autonomous society would be objectionable. After dismissing a non-normative defence strategy of Foucault’s work, I shall proceed as follows: firstly, I shall clarify Fou-cault’s model of critique as a practice of …Read more
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13Adorno, Foucault, and the history of the presentDissertation, . 2017.What is the nature of our society? What kinds of power regimes shape our existence? What forms of emancipatory resistance might chart the way towards a better future that responds to the dangers, injustices, and pathologies marking the present? These are just some of the questions my dissertation aims to answer through the help of the conceptual resources that Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault provide us with. Accordingly, whereas the few attempts that have been made been to compare their works…Read more
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137Michel Foucault on Problematization, Parrhesia and CritiqueMateriali Foucaultiani 3 (5-6): 135-154. 2014.Focusing on his last courses at the Collège de France, the present paper aims at exploring the strategic role the notion of parrhesia plays in the elaboration of Foucault’s critical project, according to which parrhesia is what enables the pas- sage from the concept of problematization as an archaeo-genealogical target of inquiry to the idea of problematization as a verbal act of investigation. To this end, the article argues that parrhesia is the condition of possibility for the problematizatio…Read more
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22For a Critique of Modern Rationalism. Revolutionary Terror in Hegel's Phenomenology of SpiritGovernare la Paura. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 1-26. 2012.The essay explores the philosophical concept of fear as it appears in the chapter of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit entitled Absolute Freedom & Terror , dedicated to the analysis of the French Revolution. The aim of the essay is to show Hegel’s critique against the abstract logic of modern political rationalism implied by the Revolution itself. This critique finds its base in a new productive concept of fear, which, in the form of Terror [ Schrecken ], represents the dialectic driving force for…Read more
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14P. Cesaroni and S. Chignola , La forza del vero; Un seminario sui Corsi di Michel Foucault al Collège de France , 7-179, € 15.00, ISBN: 978-88-97522-54-6 (review)Foucault Studies 20 324-328. 2015.
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32Dialettica in-umana. Badiou lettore di HegelInternational Journal of Badiou Studies 3 (1): 160-192. 2014.This article contests the division that, up to now, has characterized the two fundamental approaches to the philosophy of Alain Badiou. The first concentrates its attention upon the domain of being and being-there, while the other is concerned with the event and the retroactive coming-to-be of truths. As a matter of fact, it argues that this division misses Badiou’s core proposal: his attempt to renovate materialistic dialectics in order to account for the emergence of novelty in a divided situ…Read more
Giovanni Maria Mascaretti
University of Florence
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University of FlorenceVisiting Research Fellow