La traduzione interculturale dell’invisibile/Al-Ghayb. Un ‘farmaco semiotico’ per le sincopi giuridico-comunicative tra individui di differente cultura.

This article illustrates the methodology of intercultural translation and its applications, focusing the analysis on the category of ‘invisibility.’ This category is examined both from the perspective of its epistemological scope and in terms of its anthropological and cultural significance, particularly within the Islamic tradition, where it is labeled as Al-Gahyb. The…

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Malintesa. Aforismi chiastici sulla (il-)legittimità costituzionale delle intese mancanti e sui possibili rimedi all’inerzia legislativa.

This paper focuses on the possibility of imagining jurisdictional remedies to state refusal to conclude into agreements (intese) with individual religious denominations. To this end, the configurability of ‘intese’ as an instrument for the implementation/protection of religious freedom is examined. Relying on this analysis, the essay assesses the conditions for…

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Il Sabato, Babele e la traduzione

Is there a link between the Sabbath, inaction, and translation? And, again, between the Sabbath and the rhythm of relations with Otherness? This short essay seeks to probe, from a semi-anthropological perspective, the ternary relationship between three cultural categories/archetypes: the ‘Sabbath,’ ‘Babel,’ and ‘Otherness,’ respectively. ‘Translation’ is treated as the…

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Fenomenologia del sacro e filogenesi del soggetto di diritto. Sui sentieri antropologico-culturali della capacità giuridica

This essay analyzes the genetic paths of Western legal subjectivity within the semantic spectrum of legal capacity. In turn, the historical transfigurations of legal capacity are traced by probing their phylogenetic connections—as it were—with the phenomenology of the sacred. To this end, the investigation unfolds through three basic articulations: a)…

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Il diritto o il Paradiso? Un dialogo con Tommaso Greco sulla generatività della fiducia e sul significato pro-fattivo del diritto

The essay addresses the issue of trust across the spectrum, as it were, of a recent book focusing on the role of trust in public life and, allegedly, within the legal experience. Using ‘trust’ as a sort of keyhole through which to take an oblique look at legal experience and…

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Children in Tatters across the Earth: Intercountry Adoptions, Intercultural Discriminations

The essay focuses on a different perspective of the child in the assessment of her/his best interests regarding the practice of international adoption. Specifically, it will be argued that the child who is the object of adoption should be understood in terms of his/her ‘relational being,’ rather than as an…

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Machiavelli, Chisciotte e i mondi plurimi. Idealità, contraddizione e conoscenza nell’antropologia politica proto-moderna

Machiavelli is considered the historical champion of political efficiency. His thought is traditionally depicted as a pendulum balancing ethical standards and pragmatic exigencies, but which ends up unevenly oscillating towards the second pole. A good deal of cynicism is assumed as the price for the foundation of an objectified political…

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Divorzi diversi e geografia giuridica interculturale. Il “termine” mobile del matrimonio

This essay addresses a Judgment of Divorce ruled by an Italian court (Tribunale di Padova) applying Moroccan family law—specifically, Moudawwana Articles 83 and 114. By means of a renvoi to EU Regulation n. 1259/2010, the spouses’ application for divorce benefitted from the so-called “immediate divorce” provision, namely a divorce without…

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