Il soprannaturale dei luoghi come orizzonte accomunante della ‘civiltà mediterranea’. Una prospettiva antropologico-filosofica e antropologico-giuridica a partire da Simone Weil.

The paper draws inspiration from an insight by Simone Weil, based on a reflection on the crusade against the Cathars between the 11th and 13th centuries. According to the philosopher, this historical event constitutes a little-studied but decisive watershed between opposing conceptions of man, society, and law, which resolve themselves…

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Mortonian Insights for a Phenomenological Re-reading of Disability Law.

The article offers a critical analysis of Timothy Morton’s “post-environmentalist” theories through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology to explore their potential contribution to a philosophy of disability law. The first part investigates the concept of ‘vulnerability’ and how its traditional doctrinal understanding can be deepened through Morton’s speculative thought….

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On the Threshold: Some considerations on the relationship between present and future in the perspective of sustainability.

This paper investigates the concept of sustainability through the metaphor of the threshold, reframing the temporal relationship between present and future. Moving beyond the dominant logic in which present determines future possibilities, the analysis proposes a reversal: the future, in its indeterminacy, shapes the present. By engaging with key philosophical…

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