Caterina Diotto
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Introduction to the session “Language as pure medium” with prof. Michael G. Levine
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Debunking Patriarchal Idolatry: Diotima’s Epistemology and the Experience of Women Christian Mystics
Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies’ Workshop “Breaking Idols, Embracing Doubts. From Idolatrous to Sceptical Attitudes” 14-15th May 2024 Idolatry in modern times has been conceptualized as the annihilation of the hiatus between reality and the symbolization process of a culture, as Emil Fackenheim once wrote. In this regard, then, the efforts of Italian Second Wave
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How is the relationship between beauty and the power structures in which we participate articulated? What are its typical mechanisms, at least for what looks at the West and, in particular, Italy? What is happening today in the Digital Age in the narratives on the bodies of girls, boys, of non-binary or trans people, of
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co-edited with Linda Bertelli This book series stems from the 2023 edition of the Winter School for high schools organised by the Italian Philosophical Society – Friuli Venezia Giulia section – and Link. Regional Philosophy Network, in collaboration with the Women’s Philosophical Community “Diotima” of Verona. Developing the paths taken together with students, the book
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Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies’ Internal Workshop, 20-22nd February 2024 The concept of experience (Erfahrung) was one of the focal points of the young Walter Benjamin’s first theoretical efforts during his years of cultural activism in the German Youth Movement. In 1913, he started his reflections with a Platonic distinction between “experience” and the dimension
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Original title: Bellezza e potere. Narrazioni e contro-narrazioni sui nostri corpi Four invited seminars for RETE per la Filosofia e gli Studi Umanistici’s Winter School 2023 “La rivoluzione femminista. Modelli teorici e pratiche politiche”, organised by Società Italiana di Filosofia – Friuli Venezia-Giulia, online venues. Every day we are accustomed to being immersed in narratives
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Invited seminar for the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies Reading morning, 22nd November 2023 at the Institut für Jüdische Philosophie und Religion, Hamburg Universität, Hamburg, Germany. Walter Benjamin, Theory of Experience In the years between 1913-1916 Benjamin develops a first shape of his Theory of Experience, strictly related to both his Theory of Language (On
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Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies’ Internal Workshop, 8-9th November 2023 The concept of experience (Erfahrung) was one of the first theoretical efforts made by the young Walter Benjamin during his years of cultural activism in the German Youth Movement. In 1913, he started his reflections with a Platonic distinction between “experience” and the ideal dimension,
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A new spectre is haunting the globalised world, the spectre of Ecofeminism. If Socialism and Communism represented the backbone of political invention between the 19th and 20th century, since the middle of the last century it has been Feminism and Ecofeminism – which on the other hand share some of the roots of the first
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Co-authored with M. Muraca, V. Ferri, A. Piussi, G. Testi, C. Zamboni. Translated by Caterina Diotto. The original version, in italian, was published here. Caterina Diotto There are many things that strike me about the experience with the Women Farmers’ Movement in Brazil that Mariateresa has told us about in her books and in the
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