Claudia Baracchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1434958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Baracchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Baracchi |
| SIGNATURE | BARACCHI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor, Department of Human Sciences, Università di Milano-Bicocca Milan Italy |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2154-6398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Remembering the Life of the Earth
Drifting to the Periphery of the Ancient Greek World
The essay articulates a rhapsodic reflection on the place of images, their surfacing, and the invisible that sustains them. By way of introduction, it focuses on (1) the initial scenes of Pasolini’s Medea (1969). Following this spellbinding sequence, it addresses (2) the abiding philosophical attraction to the phenomenon of dreams and visions. This will lead to (3) the story of a momentous flight from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Western coas…
Self-less Action
Reiner Schürmann’s late meditations on anarchy, in his engagements with Heidegger as well as Broken Hegemonies, unfold out of an unexpected ancestry—his early studies on Meister Eckhart. The fruits of such work date from the early ’70s, particularly the luminous Maître Eckhart et la joie errante (Schürmann 1972.1), but also a number of essays attesting the continuity, centrality, and consequentiality of this line of inquiry. In Schürmann’s readin…
After a Certain Posture
The Age of Distance
In light of the mandate of social distancing imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the subsequent disruption in habitual practices involving physical contact, the essay explores the ancient gesture of the handshake with reference to both its cultural codifications and its iconography, widespread especially in Mediterranean and Near Eastern areas. While involving manifold semantic and symbolic significance, the handshake is taken into account espe…
The Cosmos of Imagination
This essay raises the question of the character and status of imagination in ancient Greek philosophy. It is often said that neither Plato nor Aristotle conceived of imagination in genuinely productive terms. The point, however, is not approaching ancient thought while thinking with Kant, as if we were looking for proto-Kantian insights in antiquity. Ancient thought is not a series of ‘tentative steps’ destined to reach a full-blown articulation …
Exile in the Flow of Time
In its contents as well as discursive strategy, Plato’s Republic occasions a few reflections on the phenomenon of memory. The essay situates the philosophical discourse, along with that of divination and poetry, in the context of the practices of memory and, more broadly, within the sphere of Mnemosune. The figure of the philosopher retains traces of archaic humanity, most notably of the Homeric hero. At the same time, in the Platonic Socrates we…
Three Fragments on ΤΕΧΝΗ in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy
In Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking. Referring to a broad range of texts from the Aristotelian corpus, Baracchi shows how the theoretical is always informed by a set of practices, and specifically, how one's encounter with phenomena, the world, or nature in the broadest sense, is always a matter of ethos. Such a 'modern' int…
Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy
The "Inconceivable Happiness" Of "Men And Women
Research Article| January 01 2006 The "Inconceivable Happiness" Of "Men And Women": Visions Of An Other World In Plato's Apology Of Socrates Claudia Baracchi Claudia Baracchi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2006) 43 (3): 269–284. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659531 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Claudia Baracchi; The "Inconceivable Happiness" Of "Men…
One Good
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
A sensitive and original reading of Plato’s Republic that foregrounds the power of myth in the shaping of history.
Beyond the Comedy and Tragedy of Authority
What follows is a reading of Plato's Republic in the light of Aristophanes' Clouds. More precisely, what is here offered is the bare outline of such a reading--a set of preliminary notes that, by illuminating the inceptive stages of the Republic (especially book 1), constitutes a propaedeutic to the interpretation of the Platonic dialogue as a whole. Questions that one would typically be expected to raise in this context, questions regarding the …
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Beyond the Comedy and Tragedy of Authority
What follows is a reading of Plato's Republic in the light of Aristophanes' Clouds. More precisely, what is here offered is the bare outline of such a reading--a set of preliminary notes that, by illuminating the inceptive stages of the Republic (especially book 1), constitutes a propaedeutic to the interpretation of the Platonic dialogue as a whole. Questions that one would typically be expected to raise in this context, questions regarding the …
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
A sensitive and original reading of Plato’s Republic that foregrounds the power of myth in the shaping of history.
One Good
The "Inconceivable Happiness" Of "Men And Women
Research Article| January 01 2006 The "Inconceivable Happiness" Of "Men And Women": Visions Of An Other World In Plato's Apology Of Socrates Claudia Baracchi Claudia Baracchi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2006) 43 (3): 269–284. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659531 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Claudia Baracchi; The "Inconceivable Happiness" Of "Men…
Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy
In Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking. Referring to a broad range of texts from the Aristotelian corpus, Baracchi shows how the theoretical is always informed by a set of practices, and specifically, how one's encounter with phenomena, the world, or nature in the broadest sense, is always a matter of ethos. Such a 'modern' int…
Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy
Three Fragments on ΤΕΧΝΗ in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Exile in the Flow of Time
In its contents as well as discursive strategy, Plato’s Republic occasions a few reflections on the phenomenon of memory. The essay situates the philosophical discourse, along with that of divination and poetry, in the context of the practices of memory and, more broadly, within the sphere of Mnemosune. The figure of the philosopher retains traces of archaic humanity, most notably of the Homeric hero. At the same time, in the Platonic Socrates we…
The Cosmos of Imagination
This essay raises the question of the character and status of imagination in ancient Greek philosophy. It is often said that neither Plato nor Aristotle conceived of imagination in genuinely productive terms. The point, however, is not approaching ancient thought while thinking with Kant, as if we were looking for proto-Kantian insights in antiquity. Ancient thought is not a series of ‘tentative steps’ destined to reach a full-blown articulation …
The Age of Distance
In light of the mandate of social distancing imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the subsequent disruption in habitual practices involving physical contact, the essay explores the ancient gesture of the handshake with reference to both its cultural codifications and its iconography, widespread especially in Mediterranean and Near Eastern areas. While involving manifold semantic and symbolic significance, the handshake is taken into account espe…
After a Certain Posture
Drifting to the Periphery of the Ancient Greek World
The essay articulates a rhapsodic reflection on the place of images, their surfacing, and the invisible that sustains them. By way of introduction, it focuses on (1) the initial scenes of Pasolini’s Medea (1969). Following this spellbinding sequence, it addresses (2) the abiding philosophical attraction to the phenomenon of dreams and visions. This will lead to (3) the story of a momentous flight from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Western coas…
Self-less Action
Reiner Schürmann’s late meditations on anarchy, in his engagements with Heidegger as well as Broken Hegemonies, unfold out of an unexpected ancestry—his early studies on Meister Eckhart. The fruits of such work date from the early ’70s, particularly the luminous Maître Eckhart et la joie errante (Schürmann 1972.1), but also a number of essays attesting the continuity, centrality, and consequentiality of this line of inquiry. In Schürmann’s readin…
Remembering the Life of the Earth
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