In Masters and companions (PASSIGLI, Florence 1984) Norberto Bobbio, remembering his friend Aldo Capitini, thus expressed himself: "I can not go with the mind the words of Nietzsche:" What is the philosopher? Beyond the science: liberation from matter. On this side of the religions and myths of the liberation. "Wherever the system of philosophy, whatever it is, it dissolves, facing each other back in the limelight or the alliance on both sides of Sciences and beyond religion, the abstract system and anti-system, intellectualism and irrationalism.
And here, with the latest book by Stefano Cazzato What do we mean when we talk about fiiosofia? the point of view of fifty thinkers [Giuliano Ladolfi Publisher, Borgomanero (No) 2013], we are right in the middle of this dialogue between transcendent and immanent, between hope and matter, between abstraction and grounding. philosophical thought, the rest, it is confirmed that only to the extent that it is capable of ever new (re) openings of issues that probably other disciplines tend to "close" or at least to define the most possibIe. Indeed, as he pressed Cazzato same, the philosophy seems to go even beyond itself when it ends up turning into the problem's existence (cf. p. 8).
THE BOOK IN WHILE, communicates with the philosophical perspective of "fifty thinkers"-related items presented appropriately as their points of view on the world, man and meanings that man to the world-giving goes, and asks us asks explicitly what is philosophy. Here then prods to reflection offered by Michelstaedter and Anders, from Nussbaam and Levinas, Adorno and Russell, Chomsky and Heller ... The structure of the Volume and seplice and effective in an agile profile dedicated to each author followed just two short texts: an excerpt from a work by that author and Cazzato a comment.
One of the conclusions that the reader is encouraged to share is that philosophical thought can not stop himself from the quicksand that hold captive the "naive philosophies of history" criticized by a Giulio Preti (cir.pp. 85-86) or the systematic theories "mounted" by a Walter Benjamin that "ascribes to the philosophy of new expressive possibilities and knowledge, claiming for example the importance of the fragments of the parties with respect to all of the details" (p. 20) and enhancing the role of the individual pieces to 'inside the framework of significances of the mosaic.
WITH AN EXPRESSIVE POWER of rare intensity, Gilles Deleuze is to offer a measure of this type of research "open" that the volume is proposed in quaiche way, more or less indirectly, to promote: "There is a becoming-philosophy that has nothing to do with the history of philosophy, and which passes through those rather than the history of philosophy does not come to class "(pp. 35-36). There is nothing to do for a philosophical approach authentically and genuinely can not have any form of reductionism; we are rather forced to problematize the issues made the object of knowledge.
And problematize - teaches us the hard work of its educational workshop craftsmanship of the schools from which comes the same Cazzato - certainly not equivalent to complicate: instead think back to figure delledomande obsessively posed by Socrates, and so we will avoid the banality tion in favor a wide angle on reality.
Giuseppe Moscati
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