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6The role of experience in Hegel's conception of the relation to natureSouthern 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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8Félix Duque. Remnants of Hegel: Remains of Ontology, Religion, and CommunityThe Owl of Minerva 53 (1): 99-103. 2022.
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17Kenosis, Nature, and Anthropocentrism: A Response to FulviComparative 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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Television. The self in crisis: watching Mad men and Homeland with Girard and HegelIn Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming & Joel Hodge (eds.), Mimesis, movies, and media, Bloomsbury Academic. 2015.
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10God and the self in Hegel: beyond subjectivismSuny Press. 2017.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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4Intellectual sacrifice and other mimetic paradoxesMichigan 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.
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A sacrificial crisis not far away: Star wars as a genuinely modern mythologyIn Paolo Diego Bubbio & Chris Fleming (eds.), Mimetic theory and film, Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
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9Mimetic theory and film (edited book)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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From the hermeneutic of violence to redemption : The 100 and mimetic theoryIn Ryan G. Duns & T. Derrick Witherington (eds.), René Girard, theology, and pop culture / [edited by] Ryan G. Duns and T. Derrick Witherington, Lexington Books/fortress Academic. 2021.
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31Immanence in Schelling and Hegel in the Jena PeriodSouthern 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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20Reply to On the Hegelian Doctrine, or: Absolute Knowledge and Modern PantheismJournal 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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11Interpretation, Religion, Politics: A ConversationJournal 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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9Interpreting the World Is Transforming the WorldJournal 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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16Perspectivity, Intersubjectivity, Normativity: On Malpas’s Place and ExperienceInternational 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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10Why 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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26Hegel: From the I to the SpiritEpoché: 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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9Metaphilosophical Reflections on Theism and Atheism in the Current DebateIn 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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12Hegel, Logic and Speculation (edited book)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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30Self and Nature in HeideggerResearch 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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1490God, Incarnation, and Metaphysics in Hegel’s Philosophy of ReligionSophia (4): 1-19. 2014.In this article, I draw upon the ‘post-Kantian’ reading of Hegel to examine the consequences Hegel’s idea of God has on his metaphysics. In particular, I apply Hegel’s ‘recognition-theoretic’ approach to his theology. Within the context of this analysis, I focus especially on the incarnation and sacrifice of Christ. First, I argue that Hegel’s philosophy of religion employs a distinctive notion of sacrifice (kenotic sacrifice). Here, sacrifice is conceived as a giving up something of oneself to …Read more
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50Solger and Hegel: Negation and PrivationInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 17 (2): 173-187. 2009.This paper has two related goals. Firstly, after briefly clarifying the theoretical core of Solger's thought, it will analyse his metaphysics from Hegel's point of view, emphasizing that sacrifice is, for Solger, the fundamental structure of the relationship between the finite and the Infinite. Secondly, it will investigate the main reasons behind Hegel's criticism of Solger, showing that they have different conceptions of privation and negation and concluding that Solger and Hegel have differen…Read more
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Kierkegaard is standing by himself—through Hegel's help : the notion of sacrifice in Kierkegaard's Works of loveIn Paolo Diego Bubbio & Paul Redding (eds.), Religion After Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2012.
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6Male e redenzione: sofferenza e trascendenza in René Girard (edited book)Edizioni camilliane. 2008.
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34Hegel, Heidegger, and the 'I'Philosophy Today 59 (1): 73-90. 2015.In this paper, I contend that both Hegel’s and Heidegger’s philosophies can be regarded as attempts to overcome Cartesian subjectivism and to by-pass traditional oppositions between subjectivist and objectivist accounts of the ‘I.’ I explore Hegel’s notion of the ‘I,’ stressing how Hegel takes up Kant’s ‘I-think,’ freeing Kant’s philosophy from its subjectivism. Then, I submit that Heidegger, in the twentieth century, was similarly concerned with the overcoming of subjectivism, and that an analy…Read more
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22Mimetic Theory and HermeneuticsColloquy 9 16-28. 2005.René Girard's mimetic theory has been object of much interest in the last few years, both in the 'Continental' and in the 'English-speaking' philosophical areas. Nevertheless, Girard's thought is not always accepted in the academic circles. The main cause for this is that his theory is considered too 'philosophical' in the Human Sciences Departments, and it seems too close to cultural anthropology and literary criticism to be appreciated by philosophers. This is the reason why it could be fruitf…Read more
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90Sacrifice In Hegel's Phenomenology of SpiritBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (4): 1-19. 2012.In this paper I rely on recent literature that emphasises the importance of recognition in Hegel's philosophy in order to apply the recognition-theoretic approach to the notion of sacrifice in the Phenomenology of Spirit. Firstly, I conduct a preliminary analysis by examining the general meaning of sacrifice as a form of determinate negation. Secondly, I focus on two phenomenological moments (the struggle between ?faith? and ?pure insight?, and the cult) in order to answer the question, ?Is a re…Read more
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20th Century Continental Philosophy |
German Idealism |
Hermeneutics |
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G. W. F. Hegel |
Martin Heidegger |
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