Pio Colonnello

It is hard to grasp the ultimate meaning of one of the most controversial passages in Genesis, namely Jacob’s all-night struggle with a mysterious figure. A recent volume by Roberto Esposito analyzes the extraordinary influence of this episode in philosophy, literature, art, politics and psychoanalysis...

About sixty years after the first Italian translation, the new edition of Husserl’s Experience and Judgement reconstructs with philological accuracy the sources of the work, illustrates its complex internal texture, and the Wirkungsgeschichte of this milestone work that inaugurates a new understanding of the concept of experience...

Nowadays we can reread Eros and Civilization as the fresco or the mirror of the society and the postwar era, of which Marcuse was a passionate interpreter. But we can read it at the same time as the proposal of fruitful instances of emancipation, bearing in mind the relations of the Frankfurter philosopher with the culture of his time, with Psychoanalysis, Freudism, Marxian inspiration, Utopian Thought...

The essay aims to reconsider the interpretation of Catherine Pozzi’s poem, offered by Michelbde Certeau in his work The Mystic Fable, in the light of his most recent volume Le lieu de l’autre (The Place of the Other), that concludes what the Author «inaugurated» in the previous works. The hermeneutical focus of Certeau’s reflections is represented by the metaphor of the journey, which underlines the distance and the difference between places and times between the «I» and the «Other»...

Philosophical questioning often concerns matters which converge in a boundary area of various different, albeit complementary, ways. Literature, psycho-analysis and the cinema can represent, each in their own way, possible means of access for a Phenomenology of memory, in particular memory of fantasy...