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In this essay I analyze the role of the sea from historical, symbolic and eschatological perspectives in the thought of Franz Rosenzweig, who proposed a radical philosophy of the diaspora. I consider his historic-philosophical account of the opposition between land and sea in Globus and compare it with his theological-political analysis of Judaism in the Star of Redemption. I show how his conception of an uprooted Judaism coheres with his critique of the nation-state, already developed during the war years. I spell out the metaphoric significance that the sea has in Rosenzweig’s Globus in order to illuminate the complex relationship between state and diaspora, history and eternity., Filosofia, N. 67 (2022): Mare

Gustav Landauer (1870–1919) was a German-Jewish anarchist and radical thinker who was brutally murdered in the Munich Soviet Republic. Paul Mendes-Flohr has contributed enormously to the rediscovery of this long-neglected figure, who nonetheless played a crucial role in the intellectual debates of his time. Mendes-Flohr emphasizes the impact that Landauer’s death had on Martin Buber’s conception of politics at a time when Jewish revolutionaries were attempting to combine messianism and activism. In this essay, as a complement to Mendes-Flohr’s insightful work, I will attempt to show how Landauer’s legacy can be traced in two other German-Jewish thinkers, Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin, albeit with important differences. In particular, I want to illustrate how Landauer’s idea of an anarchic diaspora, as well as his idea of revolution as interruption, both based on a unique conception of time, can be seen as two powerful theologico-political devices that he used in order to dismantle a too narrow and too technical idea of politics. I will, therefore, examine how the anarchic diaspora finds its echo in Rosenzweig’s thought, and how the idea of interruption and inversion can be found in Benjamin’s conception of revolution.

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Celebrare la rivoluzione d’ottobre implica, in qualche modo, seguirne il filo rosso per fare i conti con le costellazioni che si sono formate in seguito a questo evento. Il suo centenario è l’occasione per raccoglierne l’eredità e interrogare, ancora una volta, la trama degli eventi storici, delle promesse e dei fallimenti del Novecento. La rivoluzione d’ottobre è un evento storico epocale, ma anche un mito collettivo che la cultura visuale ha nutrito. Se i raggi della stella della rivoluzione si sono propagati lungo tutto il secolo scorso, le sue scintille dalla Russia hanno raggiunto le lotte di liberazione anti-coloniali nelle periferie del mondo e continuano, ancora oggi, ad esercitare una forte influenza., http://www.losguardo.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017-25-Editoriale.pdf