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A matter of death and life, is the diary that Irvin Yalom and his wife Marilyn, two elderly people in the last act of life, write together, chapter after chapter, a few months before her death, suffering from myeloma. The testimony of a union that spans sixty-five years of life celebrated in the name of mutual knowledge and respect for each other's individuality, an irreplaceable ingredient of an interminable union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This survey intends to reassess the well known view of Anders Nygren who believes that the difference between eros and agape is key in the early Christian literature, and in this respect it considers the case of Origen of Alexandria (185-254) who, in the original Greek fragments of his Commentary on the Song of Songs, passed down to us also in the partial Latin translation of Rufinus of Aquileia, though he is aware of the original semantic difference between them, employs them as synonyms and applies them to supersensible and spiritual entities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we engaged in the analytical extraction of the structure of the love novel in verse by the 16th-century poet Ludovico Paschale, from the Bay of Kotor. We employed a comparative and literary-historical method to reconstruct Paschale's Canzoniere. This poetic anthology was published in 1549 in the capital city of the Republic of Venice and comprises a total of 209 poems. The majority of the poems are sonnets, but alongside this demanding poetic form, the anthology also contains madrigals, canzoni, capitoli, and stanzas. In addition to Paschale's poems, the author preserved one poem by his father in his only published collection of poetry during his lifetime. The collection is divided into two parts. In our work, we analyzed lyrical poems with a love theme from the first, longer part of the anthology, preceded by a dedication addressed to Martija Grizogono from Zadar. We then extracted elements of the love novel from Paschale's canzoniere, starting from the initial encounter with the beloved through the transformation of his love into divine love. The analysis encompassed both the macrostructure of the collection and the microstructure of individual texts. In the macrostructure, we identified which poems realize the individual elements of the love novel, while the microanalysis concerned linguistic-stylistic and poetic aspects as well as general themes. We additionally explored influences that shaped Ludovico Paschale as an author, including influences from Petrarchan literature, Bemboism, and troubadour lyricism. A significant part of our article focused on determining the authentic characteristics of Paschale's love novel in verse that successfully set him apart from his models, as well as numerous cold imitators. We concluded that Ludovico Paschale adheres to the stylistic and thematic conventions of his era but adds his own authenticity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Bernhard Häring's The Law of Christ (1954) opens up the perspectives of the "law of faith" (Rom. 3:27) to that responsibility for the gift of life that arises from a personal and communal encounter with the God of life and love. The moral response of the person is preceded by the call of Christ, in a dynamic and liberating relationship between the gift of grace and the task of following Him in the freedom of evangelical growth. Bernard Häring has thus realized a paradigm change between the moral subject's submission to merely human regulations and the filial freedom to give a joyful response to the "law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 8:2). Such a response becomes a way of evangelical solidarity among those who "bear one another's burdens" (Gal. 6:2), in the joy of being an agapic expression of the "law of Christ," received as a gift and accepted as a commitment to participate in the life of the Trinity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay presents a comparison of issues inherent in education developed by two brilliant philosophers: the phenomenologist Edith Stein, later Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, and the skills theorist Martha Nussbaum. Its purpose is to show how comparing and integrating the two approaches with each other can provide a comprehensive method for an approach to education. This paper focuses in particular on three areas of investigation that are particularly dear to both philosophers: 1) empathy 2) women 3) flourishing in vocations or human abilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the contribution of the Austrian thinker Ferdinand Ebner (1882-1931), the article initially offers a survey of the cultural diagnosis of the early Twentieth Century, secondly of the proposals for its transformation. The loss of speech, the solipsism of the Ego and the abstractness of reason are the factors of the crisis to which to respond with the spiritual essence of language, the recovery of the «I-You» relationship and the right relationship, i.e. the one that says together «Love and Word». A grammar of brotherhood emerges in which trust, co-humanity, the humanity of Christ, the concreteness of personal relationships and prayer constitute the fundamental elements. Ebner's thought emerges in its topicality and relevance for the contemporary context which can be interpreted in the light of his proposals and equally transformed by the assumption of the inescapable relational and dialogic constitution of the human being, simultaneously the source of the religious-praying relationship and of the social-fraternal one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The clinical material outlined in the study lends itself to analyzing some bridge concepts that allow us to employ the psychoanalytic model to obtain satisfactory interpretations of phenomena such as corporeality, eroticism, and love. According to Freud the body is Körper, meaning the real body, object of biology and “rock” upon which psychic develops, but also Leib, which is the body as a vital substance. The subjects of the clinical study present the mother’s body as a problematic, perhaps traumatic, element. Remarkably, the three instances are prevailingly characterized by the unspoken, the impossibility of creating a true connection between mind and body through words, the only tool that could humanize the animal experience of birth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La realtà è mostruosa. Questa è la premessa che Ade Zeno pone come base del romanzo L’incanto del pesce luna. La storia, ricca di elementi fantastici, narra l’amore di un padre, Gonzalo, che accetta di fare di tutto per salvare la figlia Ines, in coma da anni. Il suo percorso eroico apre due domande cruciali: quale sia il punto fino a cui ci si può spingere per amore e se l’amore possa cancellare atti immorali e mostruosi. Il mostruoso e le sue incarnazioni sono il tema principale di questo breve ma denso romanzo il cui autore riesce a presentare il mostruoso su due registri narrativi: fantastico e realistico e così ci trasmette l’idea che nemmeno il mondo di referenza (quello della realtà storica) sia privo del mostruoso.

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Questo articolo riguarda Giacomo Leopardi, autore poco studiato in Algeria, dove è noto come poeta, ma dal quale non è stato indagato il pensiero. È mia intenzione studiare le fonti leopardiane nel pensiero filosofico, per poi giungere ad affrontare criticamente il classico confronto stabilito da De Sanctis tra Leopardi e Schopenhauer. L’articolo analizza da una prospettiva comparativa e analitica, e critica i concetti di amore e di compassione, particolare attenzione viene data all’illusione della natura in Leopardi e Schopenhauer, dei due pensatori prenderemo in considerazione delle opere scelte: Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione, che esprime il pensiero di Schopenhauer in modo integrale, e delle poesie scelte di Leopardi contenute nel volume: Il sentimento del nulla, curate dal filosofo Emanuele Severino che di Leopardi è un cultore. Il fine che questo articolo vorrebbe raggiungere è come, al di là del conclamato pessimismo dei due pensatori, l’amore giunga o nella forma della compassione, o nella forma dell’istruire l’umana prole a conferire significato all’esistenza umana.

Madonna Fiammetta, the protagonist of the Elegia (homodiegetic) dedicated to her by Boccaccio, announces in the prologue she wants to «tell her cases» («narrare i casi suoi»). After having retrieved two chapters of her very short and passionate love story with her lover who seduced and then abandoned her, it is clear she wants to share with us the swing of her passionate mood states after she had been abandoned by the traitor who gave no longer any news despite his promise to come back. The cyclical trend of sentiments, only interrupted by the tentative of cure (proposed by relatives) or the heroin’s suicidal attempts, which all failed, represent a sort of anti-narration, if the concept of narration is the timely sequential deployment of events aimed to an end. The essay, after analyzing the paradoxical temporality of the elegiac narration, elaborate on the meaning that narration can have in such a contest.

Isabella Andreini fu un'attrice, una commediante gelosa, un'accademica intenta e una poetessa italiana. Molto giovane si unì alla Compagnia dei Gelosi e recitò in vari teatri Italiani e anche alla corte del re Enrico VIII di Francia. Una delle sue grandi interpretazioni fu la parte maschile di "Aminta", una favola pastorale di Torquato Tasso, nel 1573. Dopo alcuni anni Isabella scrisse e pubblicò un'opera pastorale, sul modello di Tasso, "Mirtilla", che è stata ristampata più volte e persino tradotta in francese. Questo si apre con un dialogo tra Amore e Venere, la cornice principale vede sviluppare intrighi tra pastori e ninfe che continuamente si lamentano della loro condizione di amanti disperati. Seguendo le classiche regole della favola pastorale, Isabella Andreini intreccia diverse storie d'amore che scioglie tutte nell'ultima parte, facendo trionfare l'amore. La presenza decisiva delle donne che guidano e dirigono la storia è fondamentale.

Durante il ventesimo secolo, un gruppo di autrici legate alla tradizione marxista e materialista promosse la creazione di un nuovo campo concettuale per interpretare l’amore come sentimento con una dimensione politica e così porre in discussione l’abituale tendenza a relegarlo alla sfera privata e all’intimità. Nell’articolo mi propongo di illuminare un momento fondamentale di questo processo di definizione del sistema interpretativo; nella prima parte esporrò le riflessioni di Aleksandra Kollontaj e, successivamente, presenterò alcune riflessioni sull’amore della radicale Shulamith Firestone come espressione di un’iniziale torsione concettuale che ha avuto ampie ripercussioni sui modi in cui le femministe materialiste di epoche successive teorizzarono una possibile ‘economia amorosa’ nel processo storico in cui le donne si definiscono come soggetti politici che lottano per la loro emancipazione. Attraverso l’analisi di Largo al Eros alato! di Kollontaj e di La Dialettica dei sessi di Firestone, opere legate alla tradizione materialista, voglio mostrare il ruolo che l’amore gioca, come sentimento vertebrato politicamente, nel processo di emancipazione delle donne. Queste prime intuizioni si rivelano particularmente fruttifere per comprendere alcuni degli sviluppi successivi della critica femminista all’’amore romantico’ (Illouz, Esteban, Herrera). Nei testi in questione l’amore è rappresentato come il fulcro emozionale sul quale si fonda e consolida il dominio patriarcale delle donne nell’economia capitalista e nella società di classe. Ciononostante Kollontaj riconosce l’amore come energia psico-sociale con un gran potenziale creativo. Queste due prospettive contribuiscono a far luce sul complesso ruolo che l’amore occupa nella riflessione femminista contemporánea e rivela una profonda trasformazione che si registra tra gli anni venti e gli anni sessanta nella forma in cui si concettualizzano le donne come gruppo specifico dentro la società divisa in classi (Kollontaj) e le donne come classe di per sé nel contesto della società patriarcale (Firestone).

Recensione di Rosalba Galvagno, La litania del potere e altre illusioni. Leggere Federico De Roberto(Marsilio, 2017). Review of La litania del potere e altre illusioni. Leggere Federico De Roberto, by Rosalba Galvagno (Marsilio, 2017).

The path of compassion generates fraternity: this is the path through which Buddhism, in its various forms, also allows us to share the project of universal fraternity recalled by Pope Francis in the Encyclical letter Brothers All. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L’obiettivo di quest’articolo è mettere in luce gli aspetti peculiari del personaggio del Satiro nella favola pastorale di Torquato Tasso Aminta. Lo studio (che terrà conto sia dell’uso tradizione di questa maschera nel genere pastorale (antico e moderno), sia la particolare concezione poetica dell’autore) è condotto attraverso il commento sistematico del monologo del Satiro (Aminta II, 1), l’unico momento in cui la sua voce può essere ascoltata e le sue reali e profonde intenzioni possono essere comprese. Al di là dell’allegoria pastorale, la singolare teoria sull’amore e la violenza che le parole di questo contradditorio personaggio portano sulla pacifica scena del dramma si mostra come una forte invettiva contro le ipocrisie nascoste nella società civile.

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In questo contributo presentiamo le versioni dell'amore proposte da Massimo Recalcati e da François Jullien in alternativa all'interpretazione tutta improntata al rispecchiamento narcisistico data da Sigmund Freud. Il confronto con la teoria lacaniana ci permetterà di mostrare il legame dell'amore narcisistico con i meccanismi di difesa dell'Io, in opposizione alle possibilità creative e agli sguardi sul Reale che un amore coraggioso, in quanto rapporto di natura distintiva, può riservare al soggetto. A titolo di esempi delle diverse manifestazioni dell'amore saranno analizzati il romanzo L'uomo che guarda di Alberto Moravia e il film Suite francese di Saul Dibb.In this contribution we present the versions of love proposed by Massimo Recalcati and François Jullien as alternatives to the freudian interpretation, imprinted on the narcissistic reflection. The confrontation with the lacanian theory will show the link between narcissistic love and the Ego's defense mechanisms, in opposition to the creative possibilities that a courageous love, as a relationship of distinctive nature, can reserve the subject. The novel L'uomo che guarda by Alberto Moravia and the movie French Suite by Saul Dibb will be analyzed as examples of brave love.

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The dimension of mercy is a fundamental reality for the Christian and should never be lost sight of. Living in God’s mercy means being inclined to walk towards the perspective of eternal life. With this attitude, our every gesture has a flavour of eternity. Living in God’s mercy is to have utmost faith in Jesus, who died and rose again to give us their own immortality. Let us remember: we are not people without hope, persons wandering in the dark. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La letteratura erotica non è mai stata oggetto di studi seri, spesso rigettata per la sua immoralità e considerata come sottogenere. Da L'amante di Lady Chatterley di David Herbert Lawrence (1928) a il Lamento di Portnoy di Philip Roth (1968) sono tutte opere messe al bando e censurate per oscenità. Alberto Moravia è considerato uno dei più importanti romanzieri del XX secolo, che ha esplorato nelle sue opere i temi della sessualità moderna. Le sue opere a carattere erotico, in cui predominano la sensualità e il voyurismo, sono le più sorprendenti e audaci. Prenderemo in esame il romanzo breve di Alberto Moravia Agostino composto dall’autore nel 1941 ma pubblicato solo nel 1944, precedentemente ostacolato dalla censura fascista. Se Agostino può essere considerato un romanzo di formazione che racconta il passaggio dall’età infantile alla fase adolescenziale, attraverso la scoperta della sessualità come rito d’iniziazione, quale idea sul sesso lo scrittore ha voluto vincolare ? Ci proponiamo, dunque, di indagare i motivi dietro la scelta di trattare un argomento considerato come tabu’ in una società mediterranea con costumi e tradizione rigidi. Tenteremo inoltre di studiare il contributo dell’opera moraviana nella realizzazione di una sorta di Liberazione sessuale nella società del tempo.

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The paper aims at responding to some of the issues recently raised by Wilkinson (2017) about love as an "improper political concept", focusing on the role of love within the spaces of commoning. By analysing two commoning initiatives (Communia in rome, the PAH in Barcelona/Sabadell), the main argument of the paper is developed in two points. The first one concerns how 'good' love, as expressed by consensus practices and group harmony, is still made of power relations. The second one concerns those people for whom love is a too strong and hurting experience that they can't or do not want live anymore, thus revealing how not everybody can afford the love leading the reproduction of commoning initiatives. Methodologically the paper results from fieldwork carried in Rome (18 months) and Barcelona/Sabadell (5 moths) based on different research methods (participant observation/observant participation; interviews; questionnaires) and based on the "politics of possibilities" introduced by Gibson-Graham (2006). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution does not aim to explain sexuality and spirituality as individual human experiences but to identify the points of contact, the irreconcilable differences, the areas of overlap and the areas of fading addressed directly in the relationship with the patients, then in scope of daily life. It is always difficult to clarify such complex constructs, especially when one dissolves into the other and it is impossible to return to the original "neutrality" because, after all, we are the product of the mixture of our experiences and not the sum of the individual experiences. The purpose, therefore, will be to analyze, the combination of the two dynamics, while anticipating, distinctly, the due description, in historical, cultural and symbolic terms. The intent is a proof of disarraying the dichotomous vision of modern homo sapiens, where desire is placed at the center of the antithetical vision: if I love a person, I cannot even hate her/him, if I love "flesh", I cannot even love God. The coexistence in ourselves, sometimes even simultaneous, of two so deep dipole experiences, radically conditions the Self, the perception of oneself and the understanding of the other. Only the heroic act of going into the discovery of our emotional labyrinth can put light where the fear of the individual person has crystallized, by defense, a social stereotype. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article speaks of "good educational practices". In fact, it presents as an excellent practice, the "Courtyard of the Gentiles" open to children and adolescents in an efficacious language because spoken in their "language" in a reciprocity of communication which brings out the good, the true, the beautiful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This short essay offers some considerations on human vulnerability, seen in the light of the Biblical- Christian Revelation, pointing out that consecrated life, especially religious life, particularly in this time of crisis, can be a prophecy of vulnerability as a resource that witnesses to the "Beyond and Other". The central point of vulnerability is found in freedom, because in it, vulnerability appears in its double aspect: wound as fragility and wound as an opening to love. The foundation is God's Love which creates the human person in his image and likeness, thus capable of freedom, of love. The ambiguity of man's answer and even rejection do not eliminate his being made in the divine image and the possibility of return. Consecrated life arises as the free answer to the call, a fragile yes entrusted to God's fidelity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]