•  40
    A secular wonder
    In George Levine (ed.), The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now, Princeton University Press. 2011.
    What is it like to be an earthly, worldly, “secular” creature? Is it a blessing or is it a curse? During the last two centuries, this question has generally been answered with an appeal to disengagedness and objectivity, that is, to an indisputable “scientific” representation of the whole of “reality.” The world then seems to serve as a justification, through the “facts of the matter,” of the superiority of optimism or pessimism. On the contrary, I want in this essay to show that, in order to a…Read more
  •  39
    " What is familiar is not understood precisely because it is familiar" a re-examination of McDowell's quietism
    Verifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane 41 (1-3): 103-127. 2012.
    The essay’s main goal is to see what connection (if any) may be drawn between McDowell’s theoretical quietism and Hegel’s idea of philosophy. McDowell’s view is explicitly rooted in Wittgenstein’s belief that «philosophy leaves everything as it is» and that its task only «consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose», but it may be interesting to investigate whether this quietism, as he has recently reiterated, is merely «Wittgensteinian» or has a broader import. The issue is appro…Read more
  •  39
    Realism, relativism and pluralism: An impossible marriage?
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 41 (4-5): 413-422. 2015.
    In broad terms, realism, relativism and pluralism can be regarded as the theoretical articulations of the following insights. Realism embodies the sense that what is at stake in our beliefs is something serious, i.e. that there is a fact of the matter, independent from our desire, which is going to decide whether what we believe in is true or not. Relativism, on the other hand, incorporates the realization that our cognitive take on the world is always perspectival, that there is no way to overc…Read more
  •  20
    Essays in retrieval: Charles Taylor as a theorist of historical change
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 44 (7): 787-789. 2018.
    Like all great thinkers, Charles Taylor was able with his oeuvre to challenge and often change the vocabulary, habits and theoretical imaginary of his readers. In this sense, he deserves to be celebrated as a teacher in the broadest sense of the word. Especially remarkable is his mastery in making the complexity of our experience as modern men and women accessible. Now, the first thing that can be learned from his sane attitude towards modern epistemology is the resolve to embrace what he once c…Read more
  •  19
    Where does our undestanding of life come from? The riddle about recognizing living things
    Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. 2015.
    The essay discusses Michael Thompson's original way of combining Aristotle and Frege in understanding life and, more specifically, biological species. His approach is compared with different styles of thought of hermeneutical or phenomenological leaning.
  •  19
    Constructing Europe Step by Step?
    Dialogue and Universalism 19 (3-5): 293-298. 2009.
  •  19
    A critical review of what I see as a controversial interpretation of the nature and aims of Darwin’s rhetorical strategy and a narrow and controversial naturalist manifesto.
  •  19
    The idea of a good life
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 43 (3): 333-334. 2017.
  •  15
    Ateismo religioso
    with Rino Genovese and Davide Zordan
    Società Degli Individui 50 71-80. 2014.
  •  14
    Verso un nuovo spirito della critica?
    with Luc Boltanski, Corrado Piroddi, and Marco Solinas
    Società Degli Individui 53 133-142. 2015.
  •  13
    The Language Animal: A Long Trajectory
    Dialogue 56 (4): 621-632. 2017.
    In my paper, I set The Language Animal against a broader picture of Taylor’s intellectual trajectory. Sources of the Self (1989) left three major questions open in its wake: (a) the viability of religious moral sources in a ‘secular’ age; (b) the compatibility between a robust moral realism and a genealogical account of modern identity; (c) the meaning and destiny of the so-called ‘linguistic turn’. This is the framing topic of his last book. Although Taylor’s variety of hermeneutics is unquesti…Read more
  •  12
    A che serve il sapere?
    Societ〠Degli Individui 46 125-136. 2013.
  •  9
    Genealogia dell'Homo sacer
    with Stefano Cardini
    Società Degli Individui 57 139-148. 2017.
  •  6
    La soluzione all'enigma dell'anima va cercata nel corpo vissuto
    Società Degli Individui 57 28-31. 2017.
  •  3
    Premessa
    la Società Degli Individui. forthcoming.
  •  3
    Beyond Teleology?
    In Luca Illetterati (ed.), Purposiveness: Teleology Between Nature and Mind, Ontos Verlag. pp. 183-200. 2008.
  •  2
    Premessa
    with Ferruccio Andolfi
    la Società Degli Individui. forthcoming.
  •  2
    Secolarizzazione: a che punto siamo? Un bilancio in cinque tappe
    with José Casanova
    la Società Degli Individui. forthcoming.
  •  1
    In una stanza buia: filosofia e teologia in dialogo (edited book)
    with Davide Zordan
    Fondazione Bruno Kessler Press. 2014.
  •  1
    Metamorfosi naturali: un dialogo
    with Massimo Bernardi
    la Società Degli Individui. forthcoming.
  •  1
  •  1
    «Secolarizzazione». Critica di una categoria dell'illegittimità storica
    with Hans Blumenberg
    la Società Degli Individui. forthcoming.
  • Tempo e felicità [Time and Happiness]
    la Società Degli Individui 12. 2001.
    Da un punto di vista temporale la felicità rappresenta un’esperienza intensa del presente. Non a caso la tradizione metafisica e cristiana ha rappresentato la beatitudine come una fuoriuscita dal tempo in un attimo che permane . Ma, accogliendo alcuni suggerimenti di Hannah Arendt, la felicità umana può essere intesa altresì come l’esperienza di un presente dilatato in cui il tempo non è trasceso, bensì esaltato in uno “spazio” della presenza in cui il trascorrere degli attimi non costituisce un…Read more
  • Giacomo Rizzolatti, Corrado Sinigaglia, So quel che fai (review)
    la Società Degli Individui 29. 2007.
  • «Ma è davvero tutto qui?» Il disagio della secolarizzazione
    la Società Degli Individui. forthcoming.
  • Paul Ricoeur, La persona (review)
    la Società Degli Individui 3. 1998.
  • Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries (review)
    la Società Degli Individui 21 177-180. 2004.