Books by Filippo Costantini
Che cos'è un insieme? Esistono insiemi infiniti? È possibile contare l'infi nito e condurre con e... more Che cos'è un insieme? Esistono insiemi infiniti? È possibile contare l'infi nito e condurre con esso operazioni matematiche? Qual è il significato dei paradossi logici che scossero i fondamenti della riflessione filosofica sulla matematica? Il libro tenta di rispondere a queste (e altre) domande tramite una dettagliata ana-lisi della teoria degli insiemi: a partire da Bernard Bolzano, colui che per primo introdusse il termine " insieme " in matematica, fino a Georg Cantor, riconosciuto unanimemente come il padre della teoria. Un capitolo è poi dedicato alla svolta assiomatica di inizio Novecento. Limitando all'essenziale la parte tecnica, ci si soffermerà sui presupposti filosofi ci della teoria, per mostrare come le grandi idee matematiche siano strettamente intrecciate a quelle filosofiche. Si discuteranno poi i paradossi logici che affliggono la teoria ingenua degli insiemi, evidenziando quanto una riflessione adeguata su di essi sia non solo necessaria nel dibattito contemporaneo in ambito logico-matematico, ma sia fruttuosa anche per chiarire aspetti essenziali del linguaggio ordinario.
For a long time forgotten, in the last few years dialectical thinking has been paid again great a... more For a long time forgotten, in the last few years dialectical thinking has been paid again great attention. In recent times dialectics has been resumed by and applied to philosophical debates in the Anglo-American scene, as the influential examples of John McDowell and Robert Brandom clearly show. Furthermore, it seems that dialectics is enjoying today widespread appreciation even outside of the specific domain of philosophy, as testified by some developments in the human sciences and, for example, in the realm of psychotherapy with the creation of “Dialectical Behavior Therapy” (DBT) by Marsha M. Linehan.
Among the main protagonists of contemporary philosophy who carefully and intensely dealt with dialectics, Theodor W. Adorno must be surely mentioned. In the last decade, the in-ternational philosophical community seems to have realized again how important and indeed essential his theoretical contribution has been and still is. The publication of previously unpublished writings of the Frankfurter thinker, edited by the Theodor W. Adorno Archiv, has probably contributed to the renewed interest in Adorno’s philosophy. Among these unpublished works, some of his lec-ture courses are of greatest importance, such as those on Aesthetics (1958-59), on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1959), on the Problems of Moral Philosophy (1963), and on Metaphysics (1965). The aim of this issue of “Discipline filosofiche” is to explore how Adorno contributed to the development of dialectical thinking by outlining an original kind of negative dialectics; and in particular to analyze the decisive role played by the question concerning truth that Adorno also (but not only) explored with regard to the “truth content” of art, and always (i.e. even outside of aesthetic theory) with reference to the fundamental “enigmatic character” of truth.
Contents:
- Giovanni Matteucci, Stefano Marino, Presentazione
- Stefano Marino, Giovanni Matteucci, The Dark Side of the Truth. Nature and Natural Beauty in Adorno
- Josef Fruchtl, Tell Me Lies, and Show Me Invisible Images! Adorno’s Criticism on Film – Revisited
- Tom Huhn, The Enigma of Experience; Art and Truth Content
- Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Form, Appearance, Testimony: Reflections On Adorno’s Aesthetics
- Samir Gandesha, Adorno’s Reading of Endgame: Between Autonomy and Authenticity
- Fabrizio Desideri, Ratio, Mimesis, Dialectics: On Some Motifs in Theodor W. Adorno
- Giovanni Zanotti, Contingent Antagonism. A Key to Adorno’s Dialectic
- Paolo A. Bolaños, The Promise of the Non-Identical: Adorno’s Revaluation of the Language of Philosophy
- Filippo Costantini, Cosa mostra la dialettica? Contraddizione, negazione e non identità in Hegel e Adorno
- Giacomo Fronzi, Dialettica negativa, metafisica e intersoggettività. Una lettura relazionale del pensiero di Th.W. Adorno
- Pietro Terzi, Critica e decostruzione dell’immediato. Adorno e Derrida di fronte a Husserl
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Books by Filippo Costantini
Among the main protagonists of contemporary philosophy who carefully and intensely dealt with dialectics, Theodor W. Adorno must be surely mentioned. In the last decade, the in-ternational philosophical community seems to have realized again how important and indeed essential his theoretical contribution has been and still is. The publication of previously unpublished writings of the Frankfurter thinker, edited by the Theodor W. Adorno Archiv, has probably contributed to the renewed interest in Adorno’s philosophy. Among these unpublished works, some of his lec-ture courses are of greatest importance, such as those on Aesthetics (1958-59), on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1959), on the Problems of Moral Philosophy (1963), and on Metaphysics (1965). The aim of this issue of “Discipline filosofiche” is to explore how Adorno contributed to the development of dialectical thinking by outlining an original kind of negative dialectics; and in particular to analyze the decisive role played by the question concerning truth that Adorno also (but not only) explored with regard to the “truth content” of art, and always (i.e. even outside of aesthetic theory) with reference to the fundamental “enigmatic character” of truth.
Contents:
- Giovanni Matteucci, Stefano Marino, Presentazione
- Stefano Marino, Giovanni Matteucci, The Dark Side of the Truth. Nature and Natural Beauty in Adorno
- Josef Fruchtl, Tell Me Lies, and Show Me Invisible Images! Adorno’s Criticism on Film – Revisited
- Tom Huhn, The Enigma of Experience; Art and Truth Content
- Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Form, Appearance, Testimony: Reflections On Adorno’s Aesthetics
- Samir Gandesha, Adorno’s Reading of Endgame: Between Autonomy and Authenticity
- Fabrizio Desideri, Ratio, Mimesis, Dialectics: On Some Motifs in Theodor W. Adorno
- Giovanni Zanotti, Contingent Antagonism. A Key to Adorno’s Dialectic
- Paolo A. Bolaños, The Promise of the Non-Identical: Adorno’s Revaluation of the Language of Philosophy
- Filippo Costantini, Cosa mostra la dialettica? Contraddizione, negazione e non identità in Hegel e Adorno
- Giacomo Fronzi, Dialettica negativa, metafisica e intersoggettività. Una lettura relazionale del pensiero di Th.W. Adorno
- Pietro Terzi, Critica e decostruzione dell’immediato. Adorno e Derrida di fronte a Husserl