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The aim of this paper is to place the first period of Leonardo Sciascia's literary activity, between the 1950s and the 1960s, within a unitary framework which finds one of its main features in the dialogue established with hispanidad, with contemporary history and with Hispanic literary culture. Through the references to George Orwell's and Federico García Lorca's literary works, to Unamuno's thought and Vittorio Bodini's activity as translator and cultural mediator between Italy and Spain, a Hispanic constellation of texts and suggestions takes shape, nourishing both the civil and the literary profile of the Sicilian writer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a previous essay, dedicated to Pythagoreanism, I began to examine, with a falsificationist approach, the idea that western tradition does not know a culture of silence. The following paper aims to continue this review, concentrating his attention on Christian monasticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper aims at analysing the existence, from Classical era to Late Antiquity, of the same and rather stereotypical conception regarding Chaldean (or Babylonian) culture - especially in the so-called Neoplatonic philosophers - despite the figure of Berossus, a native of Babylon and the author of a history of the region in Greek, who could have offered a reconstruction faithful to Babylonian tradition. Through an analysis of the fragments based also on the hermeneutical approach of Interpretivism, the paper will try to show how Berossus spontaneously adhered to the conception (if not the stereotypes) with which the Greeks used to portray the Chaldeans, and thus how he legitimized them in some ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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At the center of Trstenjak's life and work is man. This is why anthropology has a special place in his scientific interest, not as a specific discipline, but as a search for an answer to the question who a human being is and how to live together in interpersonal relationships, in society and in culture. In the paper, we discuss Trstenjak's scientific and human-experiential ≫reflections≪ of society and culture. We are particularly attentive to his understanding of man as a person and as a being of symbol, not of reason. His approach has a strong and a weak side. The strong one seems to be his fundamental intuition about the person and the symbol that enabled him to have a deep insight into the soul of man, nation, and culture. The weakness of the approach, however, is some of its limitations and ambiguities, so we critically confront Trstenjak's thought with authors who have deepened the theme of the person and the symbol. In the next part of the paper, we discuss his thoughts on the Slovenian man, family and nation. We believe that his thoughts are still relevant and worthy of attention. The paper concludes with a reflection on the importance of Trstenjak's thoughts for our times. This, we believe, cannot be shown without taking into account his reflection on the five great thinkers who for him were a key mental reference and the challenge of how to face the choices of life.

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The paper examines the connections of arts, literature and Romance philology during the cultural transition between 19th and 20th centuries – namely between the late Romanticism and the rise of ‘realist’ and ‘symbolist’ trends. In particular, the paper observes the development of the Roman culture – Gabriele D’Annunzio, Ernesto Monaci, Giulio Aristide Sartorio and Duilio Cambellotti – and its elaboration of a ‘Romanesque symbolism’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For about a decade now, the historiography of emotions has developed spectacularly, though with mixed outcomes. This paper will assess the main research orientations that have shaped this history. It will provide a first critical account of the main works in the field. To do so, we will begin by highlighting the often implicit tensions and the various debates that have erupted around the history of emotions. Among the contentious historical approaches to the study of emotions, we will focus on the so-called tensions between nature and culture, language and experience, the individual and the collective. Starting from an essentially nineteenth/twentieth century historiography, this paper aims to go beyond just a history of emotions as a research topic. Instead, it seeks to seize emotions more broadly as a category of cross-analysis that allows historians to reach and study all aspects of social life. In this regard, emotions can be analyzed both through their own historicity and through the agency of the social actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In intergenerational projects, learning a craft is an activity that may be of interest to people of different ages. This paper focuses on knitting as a craft. In most Western societies, knitting is often considered a craft for women, but on Taquile Island, Peru, it is the men who knit. This paper discusses knitting from an intergenerational perspective whilst focusing on gender and culture. To this aim, we introduce an intrinsic case study to examine the role of gender and culture in intergenerational learning. The data used in this study was collected during a visit to Taquile Island. In summary, the study’s findings reveal that (i) on Taquile, members of the community invest in maintaining cultural traditions in opposition to being swept along by (con)temporary social changes; (ii) knitting on Taquile is approached as a practical technique in contrast to Western culture where knitting is connected to the concept of ‘well-being’; and (iii) whilst gender structures may set frames for performance, the Taquile case demonstrates that what is typically considered ‘male’ or ‘female’ may vary.

The paper attempts to offer a fresh look at Philo' s theme of the two kinds of wisdom, the perfect one (represented by Sarah) and the intermediate, or encyclical culture (represented by Hagar), considering analogous images in Greek philosophy. The paper does not aim to sketch once again the history of the notion of enkyklios paideia, either in general terms or in Philo' s perspective, as this history has been sufficiently reconstructed from both a philological and a conceptual point of view. More modestly, I intend to re-define some original traits appearing in Philo' s exegesis of Gen 16,1-6, as developed in the first part of De congressu eruditionis gratia. As a result of this survey, I propose to read Philo' s interpretation as building not only upon the 'canonical' comparison with Penelope and her servants, but also, first and foremost, upon the Platonic metaphors of knowledge as 'eros' and 'childbirth' experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent studies of Sicilian architecture falling into the period of the Norman County (1061-1130) have recognized that it was formed in particular cultural circumstances; the result of both the importation of architectural knowledge to serve the needs of patrons and sites, and its adaptation to a local skill base. To clarify the theme, the following paper focuses on crypts in Sicilian cathedrals where construction was ordered by Roger I of Altavilla in the late 11th century and early 12th century. We will first examine all surviving examples, to identify the role played by the choice of the site. Most were chosen for their strategic position in respect of their natural and inhabited surroundings; e will also enquire as to the relationship between the crypt and the cathedral; finally, we will try to identify the dynamics of the interaction between Norman architectural culture and that of the population already present on the Island at the time of the conquest [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Throughout history, the faculty of reason has been conceived and conceptualized in many ways. In particular, by the beginning of the modern age the meanings of reason connected to the acts of computing, measuring, and arguing, collected in the word ratio, have become outstanding and imposed upon the ancient tradition stemming from the Greek word logos. From that moment, the reason has been pluralized, typified, classified and many functions have been ascribed to it. The history of modernity can be described through the history of the many theories and meanings of reason which have been developed and worked out time after time and thinker after thinker. In this history, the concepts of rationalization, rationality, "déraison"/"Unvernunft" or irrationality also have a place. Moving from recent miscellaneous work, the present paper gives an account of such an astonishing history. What is finally delivered is a plural reflection on the history of European culture pointing up its richness and specificity and questioning both its bright and dark sides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of photography in dramaturgy, often considered as an epiphenomenon in the composite framework of medial theatre, can be seen instead as the precipitate of a modern culture based on images, which have transformed the performing arts on an aesthetic and epistemological level. This paper analyzes the panorama of Italian experimental theatre of the last four decades and specifically the realm of the socalled “Photographic Theatre”, in which a number of practices are put to work in a general process of photographic homoiosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

My focus in this paper is the epic Albanian poem "Lahuta e Malcís" (Gjergj Fishta, 1937) and its translation into German, Italian and English. I will analyse translations by three authors: Maximilian Lambertz (1958), Ernest Koliqi (1973) and Robert Elsie (2005). As a result, I will show how these three translations fail to fully convey certain aspects of Albanian culture to the German, Italian and English readers. In theoretical terms, I will briefly address the issue of how the translator should best preserve not only the meaning of the original text, but also the style in which the work is written. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to explore the topics of Ioan Culianu's Iocari serio, which can be considered as a preamble to his more renowned Eros and magic. The author aims at depicting the Renaissance culture as deeply grounded in the art of mastering mental images, where the "serious game" of magic plays a paramount role. Starting with a consideration on Culianu's view of the Orphic myth of creation and on the playful attitude of Renaissance culture, the paper analyses the philosophical context that legitimised the art of magic, thus pointing out the reasons that brought Culianu to define Renaissance as a «culture of the imaginary». The paper also highlights the premises of his theory, which will play an important role in Eros and magic, according to which Reformation and Counterreformation would have led to a «censorship of the phantasmic ». [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the representation of culture in a corpus based on fifteen OpenCourseWare (OCW) lecture transcripts available from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University. The corpus is divided into three components of five lectures each from the broad disciplinary areas of humanities, soft sciences, and hard sciences, thus allowing for a contrastive analysis of cultural references across different domains of specialized knowledge. The analytical approach is based on the concept of a "cultureme", i.e., a unit of analysis for a culture-specific phenomenon and its linguistic expression. The corpus was processed with the semantic annotation tool of Wmatrix that automatically assigns lexical items in a corpus to pre-established semantic domains. The lexical items in domains associated with human cultural experiences (e.g., education, religion, history, food and drinks, sports, the media, entertainment, geographical names, proper names) were then examined to identify culturemes. Extensive follow-up crossdomain analysis was necessary to tease out culture-specific meanings across the corpus. The results indicate that, although not present in high frequencies, a number of culturemes were dispersed throughout the corpus, with most referring to the domain of education, followed by government & politics and entertainment. The paper concludes with some reflections on the pedagogical implications of the findings in the context of helping L2 learners cope with the comprehension challenges of culture-specific meanings in lecture discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many consumers express concern about the ecological consequences of their purchases and go so far as to promote collective action to encourage the spread of practices that address environmental impacts. Among the informal initiatives promoting the culture of sharing and reusing objects, we are interested in the phenomenon of free shops. These activities are characterised by the fact that they are promoted by groups of citizens whose aim is to explore alternative routes to ecological transition, while at the same time proposing a critique of the dominant market model. In this paper, we wanted to highlight the modalities of ecological engagement through the individual and collective trajectories of the people who frequent these atypical places as they reveal the evolutions and contradictions that remain in the transition between social and ecological challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper the concepts of identity, culture, ethnicity, symbol and cultural conflict are explored and the author underlines how cultural diversity, if on the one hand, possesses a strong aptitude to constitute an element of tension, opposition and conflict, on the other hand it translates into "cultural conflict", when it is accompanied either by conditions of exclusion, marginalization and economic, social and political deprivation or by powerful ideological and nationalistic impulses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(1), 257-279 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. The "promises" of the cultural OMC. - III. The birth of the cultural OMC. - IV. The operation and evolution of the cultural OMC. - V. Cultural policy coordination or cultural cooperation? - VI. The cultural OMC in the context of the EU cultural policy. - VII. Cultural coordination outside the cultural OMC. - VIII. Conclusion. | (Abstract) This Article focuses on the use of the OMC in the field of culture - a particularly sensitive policy field for the Member States. The cultural OMC was conceived as a flexible, non-binding and voluntary framework for structuring Member States' cultural cooperation and fostering the exchange of best practice. The analysis seeks to deepen the understanding of the cultural OMC as a framework for policy coordination. It examines the origins of the process and the arguments that supported it, as well as its formation, operation and development through three distinct cycles (2008-2010; 2011-2014; 2015-2018). It also places the cultural OMC within the broader framework of EU cultural policy and juxtaposes it with other coordination mechanisms pertaining directly or indirectly to culture. In doing so, the Article investigates the specificities of the cultural OMC and testifies to the broader set of processes that currently seek to coordinate Member States' culture policies.

The paper analyses the question of what "form" takes on meaning in our culture through the religious and aesthetic issue of Byzantine Holy Icons. From this point of view we are going to investigate the problem of the "form beyond the form" as a shape beyond his sensitive image. In this regard as specific issue of our discussion we will consider the development of the Icon-form (as mental and conceptual shape) from the Byzantine ages to the religious painting of El Greco. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper examines naming variation in several Italian translations of Erich Kastner's novel Das doppelte Lottchen. Starting from the analysis of proper names and naming processes in Kästner's book, this study aims to show how the onomastic dissimilarity occurring in its different Italian versions has to do not only with the ever shifting translation methods and techniques in the way of adapting names to the target culture, but mostly with the constantly renewed critical (and editorial) approach to the novel over the years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(1), 203-205 | Article | (Abstract) This introduction presents the five Articles of this Special Section that was originally conceived at a workshop entitled "Taking Stock of the Open Method of Coordination" (21stIus Commune Congress, 24-25 November 2016, Maastricht, the Netherlands). With a view to deepening understanding of policy coordination in the EU, the Articles place the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) within the broader system of EU law and competences, explore its application in various EU policy areas, study its different forms and the multiplicity of processes that it involves, draw attention to novel processes of coordination at the EU level, examine the relationship of the OMC with other coordination procedures and mechanisms and verify whether or not the OMC remains a relevant conceptual framework for understanding EU policy coordination.

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What happens if we look at culture as commons? My effort is to "capture" sense of culture as commons in an ever new "practice of everyday life" (De Certeau 2005). The aim of this paper is not to explore the concept of culture and commons, rather to investigate, through three good practices, the consequences that culture, seen as a common good, can bring to places. The three cases presented show what it means to invest in culture as a common asset and resource of difference. To manage culture as a common good, therefore, means investing in the revolutionary force of culture. It is possible to compare, in a certain sense, the revolutionary force of culture to the revolutionary demands of art recalled by Walter Benjamin. Benjamin hypothesizes the possibility of a political use of art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information and intangible data cannot be easily transferred to georeferenced maps; it follows the need to identify elements on the territory based on appropriate correlations. The paper examines two types of heritage, one of a tangible type and one of an intangible one, which have a common strong reference represented by the territory in which they are located. The first consists of the archaeological sites of the colony of Vulturnum, present in the river system of the low plain of the Volturno river in Campania; the second concerns the culture "Arbëreshë" which finds its connections in the typological-constructive language and in the peculiar urban conformation of the Albanian-speaking centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper aims at investigating the current status of Afghan women’s human rights from the perspective of constitutional and comparative public law in light of the debate on minority women’s condition in multicultural and multiethnic legal systems. Moving beyond the analysis of the Afghan legal system and hinging on selected statistics on Afghanistan’s ethnically diverse composition, the first part of the paper examines Afghan’s women condition following the coming into force of the 2004 Constitution by interlacing the constitutional provisions with the existing rules of Personal and Customary Law. The second part of the paper goes on by comparing the Afghan legal system with selected European and extra-European Countries featured by systems of law, that similarly to Afghanistan rely on a mixture of State Laws, Personal, and Customary Laws to highlight the extent to which these systems affect women’s human rights and, especially, those of minority women

The volume Borders and Contacts. Local, Regional and Global Phenomena, coordinated by Carmen Darabus and Camelia Zabava, brings together 28 papers presented by different scholars (from Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, the Northern Macedonia, Lithuania, and Sweden) in a panel organized at Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, in June 22nd 2019. The volume is structured in three chapters: linguistics, literature and cultural studies. All the papers, having different subjects, are subordinated to the maine topic and try to demonstrate that the borders separate people, but the culture unites them.

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For about a decade now, the historiography of emotions has developed spectacularly, though with mixed outcomes. This paper will assess the main research orientations that have shaped this history. It will provide a first critical account of the main works in the field. To do so, we will begin by highlighting the often implicit tensions and the various debates that have erupted around the history of emotions. Among the contentious historical approaches to the study of emotions, we will focus on the so-called tensions between nature and culture, language and experience, the individual and the collective. Starting from an essentially nineteenth/twentieth century historiography, this paper aims to go beyond just a history of emotions as a research topic. Instead, it seeks to seize emotions more broadly as a category of cross-analysis that allows historians to reach and study all aspects of social life. In this regard, emotions can be analyzed both through their own historicity and through the agency of the social actors.

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The modern concept of "nature " vas bom in the XVIIIth Century: a nature as object, submitted to man's reason. A long tradition sees the origin of the modern notion of nature in the Greek phúsis. To go from phúsis invites us on the contrary to be critical towards the modern paradigm of a nature opposed to culture. Actually the domination of nature and the exploitation by man of what are for us "natural resources " is at the core of the ideological, economical and financial model imposed on us by neoliberal capitalism. This model shapes and destroys the communities of men as well as their environments. To face anthropologically the Greek phúsis invites us to break off with a technological capitalism based on a destroying productivism. Greek reflection on the relationships between phúsis and nomos leads us to consider the inevitable interactions beWeen the human societies, their technical abilities, and their environments, in a perspective of "anthropopoiesis" and "ecopciesis". This paper represents the Italian version of the first chapter and : he last part of an essay devoted to the interactions mentioned above wita an eco-socialistic approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The modem concept of "nature" was horn in the XVIIIth Century: a nature as object, submitted to man's reason. A long tradition sees the origin of the modern notion of nature in the Greek phúsis. To go from phiisis invites us on the contrary to be critical towards the modern paradigm of a nature opposed to culture. Actually the domination of nature and the exploitation by man of what are for us "natural resources" is at the core of the ideological, economical and financial model imposed on us by neoliberal capitalism. This model shapes and destroys the communities of men as well as their environments. To face anthropologically the Greek phiisis invites us to break off with a technological capitalism based on a destroying productivism. Greek reflection on the relationships between phiisis and nomos leads us to consider the inevitable interactions between the human societies, their technical abilities, and their environments, in a perspective of "anthropopoiesis" and "ecopoiesis". This paper represents the Italian version of the first chapter and the last part of an essay devoted to the interactions mentioned above with an eco-socialistic approach'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims at presenting some reflections drawn from the analysis of the data extracted from two crowdfunding projects. The latter were started to financially support the publication of two catalogues: Incunaboli a Catania I: Biblioteche riunite “Civica e A. Ursino Recupero” (2018) and Incunaboli a Catania II: Biblioteca regionale universitaria (2021). Close attention is given to the strategies enacted to foster the valorization of two libraries and a portion of their bibliographic heritage within the framework of an ongoing research project; among its goals is serving as tool to promote participation in and sharing of libraries as common goods. Data analysis is conducted through the lens of cultural sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that if Christianity is to be regarded as a truly world religion, Christians must pay serious attention to the ways in which the Reformation legacy has taken roots and found contextualized expressions around the world, particularly in the global South. If Christians from the North Atlantic fail to acknowledge and take this fact seriously in their theological reflection, it will be to the detriment of their own spirituality and faith tradition. The other, who may well be one’s coreligionist, can help one construct one’s identity by providing a mirror to one’s own self. The structure of the present paper is built around four “sola” principles that succinctly capture the Reformation legacy. As such, contextual interpretations from the global South of sola fide, sola scriptura, sola gratia, and solus Christus will be introduced and discussed. In conclusion, some remarks will be made on these interpretations from a post-communist perspective.

The way we perceive the world affects our being and vice versa. The sense organs are the first information's source, representing the first filter that considers certain input and ignores others. Even the attention is a mental function, directed voluntarily or recalled by the characteristics of the stimulus, selects incoming information material, based on energy stimulus, attentional resources and information potential. The reason that stimulus is not implemented is its lack of information potential: we are not interested. A stimulus can occur aggressively to our senses, but if it lacks attractiveness it is not perceived. If the brain filters the input redundant, in the opposite situation you need to create them. Subjects deprivated of the senses show agitation, discomfort and growing boredom; Finally there is a very strong need for stimulation, sought with frantic movements and mismatched behaviours. Expectations are expectations, desires, related to an event or projected into the future. To explain what is a mind and how it works we can mention proximal planning, linked to processing feasible in a very close time. Miller writes: "The closer in time is given the reward to the desired behavior, the quicker that same behavior will be reinforced. (...) Animals, in short, has denied our reasoning about the distant future, defined as distal planning. Cognitive-behavioral development of animals is very different from ours, and this is much more evident in the prey animals, which are born already mature and know only the development mediated by learning.". But even in the case of dogs (predatory species like us) the differences are many: in general, while the canine development (physical and neuropsychological) is accomplished in the early weeks, running out in one step, the human knows periods of stasis and other rapid progression, so that we can talk of polyphasic development. Also the way we grow follows not only different times, but also a certain hierarchy: from the more "animal" to the more "human"; from the concrete to the more abstract. Although the initial stages of our lives are marked by a rapid physical and neuro-psychological progress, that is important but nothing special (in fact it is possible to compare animals and children), the culmination of this growth comes typically with large human abilities, which are the last to appear: capacity for abstraction, to manipulate complex symbols, and language. These two capacities (which together form the basis of culture) allow us unlimited growth. As the animals learn and retain information in memory - following in this way a kind of limited development of behavior - they never reach our results. In the path of life, we and animals, we begin at birth by more or less close positions, and maintain this vicinity for a short period. Soon, however, we overgrow them, and as we move into a solitary race on what is authentically human. The development of preys is very fast, even non-existent or minimal physically and neurologically: the horses are born mature and senses are fully functional. The imprinting period is very short and pretty close to the birth. The situation is different for the predatory species, which at birth have a progeny immature and helpless. This category comprises dogs, cats, eagles, bears and, of course, humans. The paper examines and review all main data in human and animal cognitive development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]