Riccardo Baldissone
Biographic Data
| ID | 1342216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Riccardo Baldissone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Riccardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Baldissone |
| SIGNATURE | BALDISSONE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Materialism
The notion of materialism initially appears in the writings of its Christian opponents in late seventeenth-century England. Only in eighteenth-century France materialism is first posthumously claimed by a catholic priest, Meslier, and then by authors such as La Mettrie and d’Holbach, at the risk of persecution and imprisonment: Diderot enjoys the hospitality of the fortress of Vincennes for rearranging the materialist stance within his sensualist…
Indebting and Guilting as Apparatuses of Temporalization
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsRiccardo BaldissoneRiccardo Baldissone is Fellow at the University of Westminster, London. His last multi-volume project aims to historicize and pluralize fundamental European notions by tracing their emergence, their temporal trajectories, and their possible overcoming. The first volume was published in 2018 by Universit…
On Thinking in the Anthropocene
The paper suggests, on the basis of paleoanthropological evidence, a hypothetical differentiation of human modes of thinking. Moreover, on the basis of historical evidence, it reconsiders the so-called passage from mythos to logos as a Greek rationalization of the shift between the technologies of speech and writing and their associated modes of thinking respectively. Finally, it relies on these considerations to construct digital information as …
Of Other Jaguars
Buried for decades in a deep and stony prison, the high priest Tzinacàn at last deciphers the message hidden by his god on the living skin of his jaguar companion. Yet, he is no longer interested in deploying the power of his discovery to rescue himself. This bitter moment in Borges’s La escritura del dios (“The writing of the god”) presents a narrative deconstruction of metaphysical ideas that may well apply to their modern revival in the langua…
Foucault and Foucault
In his short story Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote, Borges describes the extraordinary and paradoxical feat of an imaginary 20th century French writer who recomposes, as it were, part of Cervantes’ early modern masterpiece. This essay first sets Borges’ approach to the construction of the past within a lineage of authors, which harks back to Nietzsche and points to Foucauldian genealogies. It then renews the endeavour of Borges’ character Menard…
Farewell to Freedom
Understandings of freedom are often discussed in moral, theological, legal and political terms, but they are not often set in a historical perspective, and they are even more rarely considered within their specific language context. From Homeric poems to contemporary works, the author traces the words that express the various notions of freedom in Classical Greek, Latin, and medieval and modern European idioms. Examining writers as varied as Plat…
Farewell to Freedom
There is no doubt that the book succeeds in its purpose of showcasing the multiplicity of meanings that freedom has taken in the history of Western thought... a truly impressive undertaking." - https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619862 Understandings of freedom are often discussed in moral, theological, legal and political terms, but they are not often set in a historical perspective, and they are even more rarely considered within their specific lan…
A Contribution to a Western Genealogy of the Rights of Men and, Incidentally, of Women
This paper explores the transformation of the concept of rights through the contingencies of Western cultural history. It follows the emergence of an autonomous nomos in fifth-century BCE Greece, and it surveys Roman law and its recovery in the eleventh-century during the Papal Revolution, which first applied in the Western world to the whole society the Platonic program of founding the polity upon principles. Such foundationalist approach was re…
Human rights
Within modern Western thought the demand for human freedom and rights was constructed as the statement of the natural endowment of humans with freedom and rights, on the basis of a fundamental human sameness. This immediate sameness entailed an assimilationist bias, which could instead be overcome by focusing on human similarities. Moreover, if human rights are historical products rather than natural prerogatives, human beings are not only bearer…
Foucault and Foucault
In his short story Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote, Borges describes the extraordinary and paradoxical feat of an imaginary 20th century French writer who recomposes, as it were, part of Cervantes’ early modern masterpiece. This essay first sets Borges’ approach to the construction of the past within a lineage of authors, which harks back to Nietzsche and points to Foucauldian genealogies. It then renews the endeavour of Borges’ character Menard…
Human rights
Within modern Western thought the demand for human freedom and rights was constructed as the statement of the natural endowment of humans with freedom and rights, on the basis of a fundamental human sameness. This immediate sameness entailed an assimilationist bias, which could instead be overcome by focusing on human similarities. Moreover, if human rights are historical products rather than natural prerogatives, human beings are not only bearer…
Human rights
Within modern Western thought the demand for human freedom and rights was constructed as the statement of the natural endowment of humans with freedom and rights, on the basis of a fundamental human sameness. This immediate sameness entailed an assimilationist bias, which could instead be overcome by focusing on human similarities. Moreover, if human rights are historical products rather than natural prerogatives, human beings are not only bearer…
A Contribution to a Western Genealogy of the Rights of Men and, Incidentally, of Women
This paper explores the transformation of the concept of rights through the contingencies of Western cultural history. It follows the emergence of an autonomous nomos in fifth-century BCE Greece, and it surveys Roman law and its recovery in the eleventh-century during the Papal Revolution, which first applied in the Western world to the whole society the Platonic program of founding the polity upon principles. Such foundationalist approach was re…
Of Other Jaguars
Buried for decades in a deep and stony prison, the high priest Tzinacàn at last deciphers the message hidden by his god on the living skin of his jaguar companion. Yet, he is no longer interested in deploying the power of his discovery to rescue himself. This bitter moment in Borges’s La escritura del dios (“The writing of the god”) presents a narrative deconstruction of metaphysical ideas that may well apply to their modern revival in the langua…
Foucault and Foucault
In his short story Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote, Borges describes the extraordinary and paradoxical feat of an imaginary 20th century French writer who recomposes, as it were, part of Cervantes’ early modern masterpiece. This essay first sets Borges’ approach to the construction of the past within a lineage of authors, which harks back to Nietzsche and points to Foucauldian genealogies. It then renews the endeavour of Borges’ character Menard…
Farewell to Freedom
Understandings of freedom are often discussed in moral, theological, legal and political terms, but they are not often set in a historical perspective, and they are even more rarely considered within their specific language context. From Homeric poems to contemporary works, the author traces the words that express the various notions of freedom in Classical Greek, Latin, and medieval and modern European idioms. Examining writers as varied as Plat…
Farewell to Freedom
There is no doubt that the book succeeds in its purpose of showcasing the multiplicity of meanings that freedom has taken in the history of Western thought... a truly impressive undertaking." - https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619862 Understandings of freedom are often discussed in moral, theological, legal and political terms, but they are not often set in a historical perspective, and they are even more rarely considered within their specific lan…
On Thinking in the Anthropocene
The paper suggests, on the basis of paleoanthropological evidence, a hypothetical differentiation of human modes of thinking. Moreover, on the basis of historical evidence, it reconsiders the so-called passage from mythos to logos as a Greek rationalization of the shift between the technologies of speech and writing and their associated modes of thinking respectively. Finally, it relies on these considerations to construct digital information as …
Materialism
The notion of materialism initially appears in the writings of its Christian opponents in late seventeenth-century England. Only in eighteenth-century France materialism is first posthumously claimed by a catholic priest, Meslier, and then by authors such as La Mettrie and d’Holbach, at the risk of persecution and imprisonment: Diderot enjoys the hospitality of the fortress of Vincennes for rearranging the materialist stance within his sensualist…
Indebting and Guilting as Apparatuses of Temporalization
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsRiccardo BaldissoneRiccardo Baldissone is Fellow at the University of Westminster, London. His last multi-volume project aims to historicize and pluralize fundamental European notions by tracing their emergence, their temporal trajectories, and their possible overcoming. The first volume was published in 2018 by Universit…
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