Paolo Gomarasca

As known, Menger endorses a typically Weberian thesis: Economics should be conceived as a value-free science. On the contrary, Keynes seems to argue that economics should be considered a moral science. This paper intends to prove a) a possible compatibility at the epistemological level and b) an agreement even at the ethical level...

The aim of this paper is to argue that the lacanian interpretation of capitalism is strictly related to the concept of «giving capitalism», developed by Kojève during a famous conference in Düsseldorf, at the invitation of Carl Schmitt in 1957. Lacan’s point is that capitalism has established itself as the empire of standardised enjoyment, where consumers of gadgets become gadgets. This reification process is hidden behind the friendly face of «giving capitalism», but ends up to manifest itself as a mechanism of aggressive control of life...

Un volume che si focalizza sulla categoria ontologica della generazione, spesso denigrata dalla cultura moderna

The aim of this paper is to examine the role that Kant assigned to the imagination, in the transcendental deduction of the categories. As it is known, this role is highly controversial: some scholars are convinced that the imagination has a function which is merely ancillary and subordinated to the intellect (and to the sensibility)...

Oltre le ambiguità concettuali e mediatiche, davvero possiamo dirci tutti meticci? Per non appiattire le appartenenze o stressare le differenze, serve una condivisa comprensione sociale delle persone, nei loro propri tratti culturali, originari e stranieri.

A prima vista, il percorso dell'etica occidentale appare segnato da un'ostilità irriducibile tra logos e pathos.

L'incontro tra culture diverse caratterizza le società democratiche nell'era della globalizzazione