Libera Pisano
Biographic Data
| ID | 453839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Libera Pisano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Libera |
| FAMILY NAME | Pisano |
| SIGNATURE | PISANO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3259-8505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Outside the Ivory Tower in advance
In this paper, I analyze Vattimo’s advancement of hermeneutics beyond its classical boundaries. Building on his interpretations of Heidegger and Gadamer, Vattimo highlights the emancipatory potential of hermeneutics while critiquing traditional metaphysical frameworks. He advocates for “weak thought” (), a flexible and non-violent approach to truth and interpretation. I argue that Vattimo’s hermeneutics is not merely a theoretical pursuit but a p…
Chosen Heimat , Unsettled Home
"Forever Strange in This World." Susan Taubes' Diasporic Thinking
This essay explores the philosophical core of Susan Taubes' thought through her diasporic ontology-a philosophy of becoming that does not derive from statics but precedes and reconfigures them. Instead of treating exile as loss or as a deviation from origin, Taubes roots her thinking in displacement, challenging fixed identities, theological certainties, and static notions of belonging. Although overshadowed by her husband Jacob and, due to the f…
Embracing Life
This paper examines Gustav Landauer's mystical anarchism, focusing on the concept of overcoming death as a core element of his thought. It explores Landauer's rejection of death as both a linguistic superstition and a limited worldview, emphasizing the collective whole over individualism. The essay suggests that Landauer's representation of revolution moving from space to time includes his account of mystical anarchy, which fosters a deep connect…
Skepsis and Antipolitics
Gustav Landauer was an unconventional anarchist who aspired to a return to a communal life. His antipolitical rejection of authoritarian assumptions is based on a radical linguistic scepticism that could be considered the theoretical premise of his anarchism. The present volume aims to add to the existing scholarship on Landauer by shedding new light on his work, focussing on the two interrelated notions of skepsis and antipolitics. In a time mar…
Wohnwort
One aspect of Elazar Benyoëtz’s poetry is his bold attempt to treat the catastrophe of Auschwitz through a linguistic prism. In this essay, I would like to shed light on his way of inhabiting the German language as an outsider by considering the ethical implications of his bifurcated linguistic soul. To do so, I will first analyze the general representation of language that appears in Benyoëtz’s work. In particular, I will point to the dynamics o…
Gustav Landauer's Judaism
This essay examines Gustav Landauer’s original conception of Judaism, his redemptive conception of community, his theory of revolution, and the influence of his writings on the voluntary organizing of settlements in the pre-state community of Mandatory Palestine—all of which are relevant in accounting for the impact of Landauer’s work upon German Jewry in the 1920’s, as well as upon the Yishuv, the emerging body of Jewish settlements in the Land …
The Tragedy of Messianic Politics
Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) was a German-Jewish anarchist and radical thinker who was brutally murdered in the Munich Soviet Republic. Paul Mendes-Flohr has contributed enormously to the rediscovery of this long-neglected figure, who nonetheless played a crucial role in the intellectual debates of his time. Mendes-Flohr emphasizes the impact that Landauer's death had on Martin Buber's conception of politics at a time when Jewish revolutionaries w…
Farewell to Revolution! Gustav Landauer’s Death and the Funerary Shaping of His Legacy
The violent death of Landauer in May 1919 at the end of the Räterepublik of Munich left several of his best friends with a terrible feeling: a sense of tension between the unique hopes incarnated by Landauer and the spiritual and political void his passing left behind. This article is an attempt to capture the tragic shift from a living revolutionary who projected his unique anarchist views onto the failed Munich Revolution to the efforts of a gr…
The Disappearence of Presence
In this contribution I would like to investigate the conjunction between technology, media, language and aletheia – according to Heidegger’s understanding of this term – , while also shedding light on its connection to magic. Martin Heidegger is the German philosopher who offers the most rigorous reflection on the question of technology. In his famous conference The Question Concerning Technology [Die Frage nach der Technik] given in Munich in No…
Skepsis and Antipolitics
Gustav Landauer was an unconventional anarchist who aspired to a return to a communal life. His antipolitical rejection of authoritarian assumptions is based on a radical linguistic scepticism that could be considered the theoretical premise of his anarchism. The present volume aims to add to the existing scholarship on Landauer by shedding new light on his work, focussing on the two interrelated notions of skepsis and antipolitics. In a time mar…
Gustav Landauer's Judaism
This essay examines Gustav Landauer’s original conception of Judaism, his redemptive conception of community, his theory of revolution, and the influence of his writings on the voluntary organizing of settlements in the pre-state community of Mandatory Palestine—all of which are relevant in accounting for the impact of Landauer’s work upon German Jewry in the 1920’s, as well as upon the Yishuv, the emerging body of Jewish settlements in the Land …
The Tragedy of Messianic Politics
Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) was a German-Jewish anarchist and radical thinker who was brutally murdered in the Munich Soviet Republic. Paul Mendes-Flohr has contributed enormously to the rediscovery of this long-neglected figure, who nonetheless played a crucial role in the intellectual debates of his time. Mendes-Flohr emphasizes the impact that Landauer's death had on Martin Buber's conception of politics at a time when Jewish revolutionaries w…
The Disappearence of Presence
In this contribution I would like to investigate the conjunction between technology, media, language and aletheia – according to Heidegger’s understanding of this term – , while also shedding light on its connection to magic. Martin Heidegger is the German philosopher who offers the most rigorous reflection on the question of technology. In his famous conference The Question Concerning Technology [Die Frage nach der Technik] given in Munich in No…
Farewell to Revolution! Gustav Landauer’s Death and the Funerary Shaping of His Legacy
The violent death of Landauer in May 1919 at the end of the Räterepublik of Munich left several of his best friends with a terrible feeling: a sense of tension between the unique hopes incarnated by Landauer and the spiritual and political void his passing left behind. This article is an attempt to capture the tragic shift from a living revolutionary who projected his unique anarchist views onto the failed Munich Revolution to the efforts of a gr…
Wohnwort
One aspect of Elazar Benyoëtz’s poetry is his bold attempt to treat the catastrophe of Auschwitz through a linguistic prism. In this essay, I would like to shed light on his way of inhabiting the German language as an outsider by considering the ethical implications of his bifurcated linguistic soul. To do so, I will first analyze the general representation of language that appears in Benyoëtz’s work. In particular, I will point to the dynamics o…
Gustav Landauer's Judaism
This essay examines Gustav Landauer’s original conception of Judaism, his redemptive conception of community, his theory of revolution, and the influence of his writings on the voluntary organizing of settlements in the pre-state community of Mandatory Palestine—all of which are relevant in accounting for the impact of Landauer’s work upon German Jewry in the 1920’s, as well as upon the Yishuv, the emerging body of Jewish settlements in the Land …
The Tragedy of Messianic Politics
Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) was a German-Jewish anarchist and radical thinker who was brutally murdered in the Munich Soviet Republic. Paul Mendes-Flohr has contributed enormously to the rediscovery of this long-neglected figure, who nonetheless played a crucial role in the intellectual debates of his time. Mendes-Flohr emphasizes the impact that Landauer's death had on Martin Buber's conception of politics at a time when Jewish revolutionaries w…
Embracing Life
This paper examines Gustav Landauer's mystical anarchism, focusing on the concept of overcoming death as a core element of his thought. It explores Landauer's rejection of death as both a linguistic superstition and a limited worldview, emphasizing the collective whole over individualism. The essay suggests that Landauer's representation of revolution moving from space to time includes his account of mystical anarchy, which fosters a deep connect…
Skepsis and Antipolitics
Gustav Landauer was an unconventional anarchist who aspired to a return to a communal life. His antipolitical rejection of authoritarian assumptions is based on a radical linguistic scepticism that could be considered the theoretical premise of his anarchism. The present volume aims to add to the existing scholarship on Landauer by shedding new light on his work, focussing on the two interrelated notions of skepsis and antipolitics. In a time mar…
"Forever Strange in This World." Susan Taubes' Diasporic Thinking
This essay explores the philosophical core of Susan Taubes' thought through her diasporic ontology-a philosophy of becoming that does not derive from statics but precedes and reconfigures them. Instead of treating exile as loss or as a deviation from origin, Taubes roots her thinking in displacement, challenging fixed identities, theological certainties, and static notions of belonging. Although overshadowed by her husband Jacob and, due to the f…
Outside the Ivory Tower in advance
In this paper, I analyze Vattimo’s advancement of hermeneutics beyond its classical boundaries. Building on his interpretations of Heidegger and Gadamer, Vattimo highlights the emancipatory potential of hermeneutics while critiquing traditional metaphysical frameworks. He advocates for “weak thought” (), a flexible and non-violent approach to truth and interpretation. I argue that Vattimo’s hermeneutics is not merely a theoretical pursuit but a p…
Chosen Heimat , Unsettled Home
Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (4 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · German (3 works)