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Drezione/Editors: Claudia Giurintano (Direttore responsabile, Università di Palermo), Giorgio Scichilone (Università di Palermo). Eugenio Guccione (Direttore emerito, Università di Palermo).
Comitato Scientifico/ Advisory Board: Marcella Aglietti (Università di Pisa); Francesco Bonini (Università Lumsa); Gabriele Carletti (Università di Teramo); Paolo Carta (Università di Trento); Manuela Ceretta (Università di Torino); Salvatore Cingari (Università per Stranieri di Perugia); Alberto De Sanctis (Università di Genova); Franco M. Di Sciullo (Università di Messina); Claudia Giurintano (Università di Palermo); Guido Melis (Università di Roma La Sapienza); Enza Pelleriti (Università di Messina); Francesca Russo (Università Suor Orsola Benincasa); Fabrizio Sciacca (Università di Catania); Giorgio Scichilone (Università di Palermo); Luca Scuccimarra (Università di Roma La Sapienza); Mario Tesini (Università di Parma).- Honorary Members: Nicola Antonetti (Università di Parma); Giuseppe Astuto (Università di Catania); Paolo Bagnoli (Università di Siena); Franca Biondi Nalis (Università di Catania); Giuseppe Buttà (Università di Messina); Maria Sofia Corciulo (Università di Roma La Sapienza); Eugenio Guccione (Università di Palermo); Francesco Mercadante (Università di Roma La Sapienza); Paolo Pastori (Università di Camerino); Claudio Vasale (Università Lumsa).
Comitato Scientifico Internazionale/International Advisory Board: Francisco Javier Ansuátegui Roig (Universidad Carlo III de Madrid); William J. Connell (Seton Hall University); Bernard A. Cook (Loyola University New Orleans); John P. McCormick (University of Chicago); Jean-Yves Frétigné (Université de Rouen – Normandie); Marcel Gauchet (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – Paris); Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle University); François Jankowiak (Université Paris-Sud/Paris-Saclay); Salvatore Rotella (Riverside Community College – California); Quentin Skinner (University of London).
Comitato Editoriale/Editorial Board: Cataldo Nicosia (coordinamento redazionale, Università di Catania); Dario Caroniti (Università di Messina), Walter Crivellin (Università di Torino), Federica Falchi (Università di Cagliari), Paola Russo (Università di Catania).
Marco Leonardi
Università degli Studi di Catania
Keywords: Dominicans, Sicily, historiography, politics, research work.
The Work De Rebus Siculis Decades Duae by Tommaso Fazello, scholar of the Ordo Praedicatorum, was published in 1558 and soon after it revolutionized the way Sicily’s history was reconstructed and described. This study refers to the six fundamental points of Fazello’s book and develops and clarifies each point the Dominican historian started from to write a harmonious and organic history of Sicily, dealing with a very long period between the Flood (he thinks it happened 2242 years after the creation of the world) and the abdication of Emperor Charles of Habsburg in favor of his son Philips II. Fazello’s book is based on a Thomist conception of the world and its sources are archeological excavations and very often mythological groundless traditions. But the author describes vividly with accuracy the usages and customs of the population living in Sicily as he has a direct personal experience of all the processions and events taking place in the island. Consequently De Rebus Siculis Decades Duae is one of the most fascinating evidence how the history of Sicily in the European historiography, from Late Middle Ages to the Humanism, is read, interpreted and written.
Pietro Sebastianelli
Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
Keywords: Montchrétien, political economy, reason of state, sovereignty, governmentality.
The essay deals with the relationship between reason of state, the birth of political economy and sovereignty in Antoine de Montchrétien’s Traicté de l’oeconomie politique. This work is in fact interpreted as one of the main ramifications that the discourse on the art of governing, which contemporary authors named reason of state, took place in Europe. Therefore, I will argue that the treatise does not represent an anticipation of the future science of economics, but a specific attempt to configure an art of the government out of a reinterpretation of political Aristotelianism. When compared with the theory of sovereignty elaborated by Jean Bodin, the Traicté by Montchrétien appears to express a different political rationality, specifically oriented on developing a new art for the “government of men” within a state in the modern age.
Carmelo Calabrò
Università degli Studi di Pisa
Keywords: Liberalism, Socialism, Rosselli, Mill, Green, Hobhouse.
This paper aims at highlighting the contact points between Carlo Rosselli’s theoretical elaboration and the British political thought. Rosselli’s major work, Socialismo liberale, is read here in relation to the reflections of British liberal authors such as Mill, Green and Hobhouse, in whose works the prodromes of an elaboration combining elements of liberalism and socialism can be found. The attempt to present some aspects of the long-standing connection between Rosselli and England concerns the concept of freedom, the criticism of the degenerations of bourgeois liberalism and the solutions, although not systematic, that Rosselli provides in his work as an alternative to the existing political, social and economic system, where freedom and justice could be joined.
Adriano Vinale
Università di Salerno
Keywords: Pandemic, social medicalization, scapegoat theory, immunization, political epidemiology.
The main aim of this essay is to find useful historical-political grids in order to interpret governmental strategies and dispositives that have been activated during the CoViD-19 pandemic outbreak. From this perspective, Michel Foucault’s concept of social medicalization and René Girard’s scapegoat theory seem to be extremely fertile. As a matter of fact, both Foucault and Girard’s approaches to social phenomena and political systems could be read on an immunitarian background. I suggest here to call political epidemiology the common standpoint of these two otherwise very different authors.
Note e discussioni/Notes and discussions
Louise Frétigné
Université de Nantes
CATHARSIS ET VIOLENCE POLITIQUE (CATHARSIS AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE)
Keywords: Scapegoat, Political violence, Catharsis, Aristotle, William Marx, René Girard.
The ambition of this paper is to wonder whether the cathartic function of art can be efficient in the face of contemporary political violence. To sketch out an answer to this broad issue, our study begins with a presentation of the theory of the scapegoat and sacrificial violence in the work of René Girard, continues with the presentation of the function of catharsis in Aristotle’s Poetics and its implementation in a few examples of tragedies, and concludes with William Marx’s modern approach to this notion.
Cronache e notizie/Chronicles and news
Elena Gaetana Faraci
Università degli Studi di Catania
Napoleone III, il Secondo Impero, l’unificazione italiana e la politica europea. Convegno internazionale (Napoleon III, the Second Empire, Italian unification and European politics. International conference)
Mauro Buscemi
Università degli Studi di Palermo
La storia delle dottrine politiche tra bilanci e prospettive. Note a margine sul Seminario in onore di Raffaella Gherardi (The history of political doctrines between balances and perspectives.
Notes on the sidelines on the Seminar in honor of Raffaella Gherardi)