Giorgio Baruchello
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 461239 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Giorgio Baruchello |
| NOMBRES | Giorgio |
| APELLIDO | Baruchello |
| FIRMA | BARUCHELLO G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Akureyri |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9933-5561 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Modern Studies in Its Twenties
Back in 2005, the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences (now “of Humanities and Social Sciences”) at the University of Akureyri (UNAK) graduated its first cohort in Modern Studies, namely the one and only BA-level degree line in the Humanities (especially Philosophy and History) ever to be offered—and currently still being offered—in the north of Iceland, as well as the sole undergraduate programme in “Modern Studies” (“Nútímafræði“) proper in the c…
Much A-be About No-thing
Review essay
Philosophical Fragments
Conference proceedings
“I confini del mio linguaggio significano i confini del mio mondo”. Riflessioni filosofiche sul tema del confine
The present paper addresses some intriguing conceptual and historical implications of the notion of border arising from ontology, mereology, topology, and logic. On such seemingly abstract bases, it proceeds to presenting some philosophical reflections on the ethical and political dimensions of the same notion, fostering the idea that extant national and international institutions, and human rights law in particular, ought to be utilised to their…
Pareto and Jung
At first glance, Vilfredo Pareto and Carl Gustav Jung sit at opposite sides of the modern socio-scientific table. The former was a self-styled "positivist" and an abrasively outspoken man of science who, in the name of "empirical observation," never missed a chance to vent scorn at all things mystical, mythical, and metaphysical. The latter was a keen student of the unconscious recesses of our psyche, as well as an avid explorer of all cultures' …
Edward H. Huijbens, Developing Earthly Attachments in the Anthropocene (London
Letting the proverbial genie out of the bottle is bad. Killing the genie after it has leaped out of the bottle is even worse. Now, and perhaps forever, the bottle is going to be empty. Our culture, to a significant extent, is a thoroughly disenchanted one. Apart from a passé and largely passing minority, notions of sacredness and divinity have mostly disappeared from the leading conceptual horizon. As Nietzsche famously asserted, God is dead—and …
Protecting Sacred Sites Is a Matter of Justice. Philosophical Remarks for Our Research Group
Any research group devoted to “sacred sites” presupposes, among other things, the recognition of sacredness, holiness, sanctity, inviolability, et similia, i.e., the logical and dialogical admissibility of spiritual and/or religious value, which is one among the many forms that value can have. Think, say, of ethical value (e.g., “war is wrong”), aesthetic value (e.g., “war is horrible”), existential value (e.g., “war dehumanises its victims”), se…
Industrial-Strength Denial
A Philosophical Exploration of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Humor has been praised by philosophers and poets as a balm to soothe the sorrows that outrageous fortune’s slings and arrows cause inevitably, if not incessantly, to each and every one of us. In mundane life, having a sense of humor is seen not only as a positive trait of character, but as a social prerequisite, without which a person’s career and mating prospects are severely diminished, if not annihilated. However, humor is much more than this,…
Good Prejudice. A Passing Foray in Intellectual History
It is difficult, if not impossible, to pinpoint the exact time when the pejoration of “prejudice” occurred. Nor can “prejudice” be understood once and for all as being exclusively a poorly formed opinion, an unreasonable belief, a false judgement, a sentiment, an assumption dictated or corrupted by sentiment, a bad behaviour, or an admixture of them, at least as far as intellectual history is concerned. Though assuming only one particular meaning…
Reflections on Castoriadis’ “The Crisis of Modern Society”
In this paper I outline Castoriadis’ 1965 talk entitled “The Crisis of Modern Society”, whereby he individuates two general critical elements of modernity and five specific ones. The two general elements are: (1) While human ingenuity gives rise to more and more complex technological applications of scientific knowledge, our capacity to steer human society towards a harmonious order decreases; (2) Progressive changes such as alleged prosperity an…
The Human Rights of Privileged Victims. A Marxist Satire on Shouting Matches
In contemporary Western nations, gender issues are being used to split the oppressed and make them fight among themselves. Men and women spend endless time and effort squabbling about the so-called “male privilege” and an alleged set of attendant disparities, rather than combining their efforts in order to pursue better wages, better working conditions, sensible monetary and fiscal policies by State authorities, true economic security and autonom…
Thinking of the Shadow. Conceptions of Cruelty in the History of Western Thought
As regards thinking of the shadow, I can contribute to the present discussion qua intellectual historian who, together with the theologian Michael Trice, has reconstructed in recent years the understanding of a particular manifestation of the shadow in the long life of Western philosophy: cruelty. Between 1998, when I started investigating Judith Shklar’s and Richard Rorty’s liberalism of fear, and 2017, when I completed a volume of collected ess…
The Moral Economists
In the history of Great Britain, the period from the 1880s to the 1970s was marked by unprecedented overall economic growth, especially in the thirty years following the end of the Second World War
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash. The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (New York
The Origins of Neoliberalism
Capitalism
The Money Mystique
The title of William Goetzmann’s book states: “Money changes everything.” This much rings true, and it probably is. Goetzmann’s volume offers compelling evidence in support of the thesis stated in
Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement
"Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement: Selective Borders, Unequal Mobility." The European Legacy, 22(3), pp. 352–353
The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History since 1789
Social Philosophy and Oncology
The Assumptions Economists Make
Who Are We?' On Rorty, Rhetoric, and Politics
It is not unusual to think of Rorty’s work as a success in rhetoric and a failure in political philosophy. In this article we re-evaluate this assessment by analyzing a typical feature of Rorty’s writing: his frequent use of “we so-and-so.” Taking stock of the existing literature on the subject we discuss how Rorty’s use of the “we” was received by peers and how he himself made sense of it. We then analyze Rorty’s oeuvre in order to show that a b…
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth
Comment on Rights and Value
Peer reviewed
Rights and Value
This article brings together the United Nations’ International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and John McMurtry’s theory of value. In this perspective, the ICESCR is construed as a prime example of “civil commons,” while McMurtry’s theory of value is proposed as a tool of interpretation of the covenant. In particular, McMurtry’s theory of value is a hermeneutical device capable of highlighting: (a) what alternative conc…
Cesare Beccaria and the Cruelty of Liberalism
In this paper I outline and criticize Judith Shklar’s and Richard Rorty’s ‘liberalism of fear’. Both political thinkers believe liberalism to be characterized by a fundamental opposition to cruelty , which they regard as the least liberal of the features that may distinguish any given human community. In order to demonstrate the limits of the Shklar–Rorty thesis, I make use, in the first place, of John Kekes’s critique of liberalism as to show th…
Rights and Value
This article brings together the United Nations’ International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and John McMurtry’s theory of value. In this perspective, the ICESCR is construed as a prime example of “civil commons,” while McMurtry’s theory of value is proposed as a tool of interpretation of the covenant. In particular, McMurtry’s theory of value is a hermeneutical device capable of highlighting: (a) what alternative conc…
Comment on Rights and Value
Peer reviewed
The Antitrust Revolution in Europe
The Antitrust Revolution in Europe: Exploring the European Commission's Cartel Policy. By Lee McGowan (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010), x + 228 pp. £65.00 cloth. It is probably impossible to wr
Economic Histories
The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History since 1789
Social Philosophy and Oncology
The Assumptions Economists Make
Who Are We?' On Rorty, Rhetoric, and Politics
It is not unusual to think of Rorty’s work as a success in rhetoric and a failure in political philosophy. In this article we re-evaluate this assessment by analyzing a typical feature of Rorty’s writing: his frequent use of “we so-and-so.” Taking stock of the existing literature on the subject we discuss how Rorty’s use of the “we” was received by peers and how he himself made sense of it. We then analyze Rorty’s oeuvre in order to show that a b…
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth
Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement
"Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement: Selective Borders, Unequal Mobility." The European Legacy, 22(3), pp. 352–353
The Money Mystique
The title of William Goetzmann’s book states: “Money changes everything.” This much rings true, and it probably is. Goetzmann’s volume offers compelling evidence in support of the thesis stated in
The Moral Economists
In the history of Great Britain, the period from the 1880s to the 1970s was marked by unprecedented overall economic growth, especially in the thirty years following the end of the Second World War
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash. The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (New York
The Origins of Neoliberalism
Capitalism
Good Prejudice. A Passing Foray in Intellectual History
It is difficult, if not impossible, to pinpoint the exact time when the pejoration of “prejudice” occurred. Nor can “prejudice” be understood once and for all as being exclusively a poorly formed opinion, an unreasonable belief, a false judgement, a sentiment, an assumption dictated or corrupted by sentiment, a bad behaviour, or an admixture of them, at least as far as intellectual history is concerned. Though assuming only one particular meaning…
Reflections on Castoriadis’ “The Crisis of Modern Society”
In this paper I outline Castoriadis’ 1965 talk entitled “The Crisis of Modern Society”, whereby he individuates two general critical elements of modernity and five specific ones. The two general elements are: (1) While human ingenuity gives rise to more and more complex technological applications of scientific knowledge, our capacity to steer human society towards a harmonious order decreases; (2) Progressive changes such as alleged prosperity an…
The Human Rights of Privileged Victims. A Marxist Satire on Shouting Matches
In contemporary Western nations, gender issues are being used to split the oppressed and make them fight among themselves. Men and women spend endless time and effort squabbling about the so-called “male privilege” and an alleged set of attendant disparities, rather than combining their efforts in order to pursue better wages, better working conditions, sensible monetary and fiscal policies by State authorities, true economic security and autonom…
Thinking of the Shadow. Conceptions of Cruelty in the History of Western Thought
As regards thinking of the shadow, I can contribute to the present discussion qua intellectual historian who, together with the theologian Michael Trice, has reconstructed in recent years the understanding of a particular manifestation of the shadow in the long life of Western philosophy: cruelty. Between 1998, when I started investigating Judith Shklar’s and Richard Rorty’s liberalism of fear, and 2017, when I completed a volume of collected ess…
Edward H. Huijbens, Developing Earthly Attachments in the Anthropocene (London
Letting the proverbial genie out of the bottle is bad. Killing the genie after it has leaped out of the bottle is even worse. Now, and perhaps forever, the bottle is going to be empty. Our culture, to a significant extent, is a thoroughly disenchanted one. Apart from a passé and largely passing minority, notions of sacredness and divinity have mostly disappeared from the leading conceptual horizon. As Nietzsche famously asserted, God is dead—and …
Protecting Sacred Sites Is a Matter of Justice. Philosophical Remarks for Our Research Group
Any research group devoted to “sacred sites” presupposes, among other things, the recognition of sacredness, holiness, sanctity, inviolability, et similia, i.e., the logical and dialogical admissibility of spiritual and/or religious value, which is one among the many forms that value can have. Think, say, of ethical value (e.g., “war is wrong”), aesthetic value (e.g., “war is horrible”), existential value (e.g., “war dehumanises its victims”), se…
Industrial-Strength Denial
A Philosophical Exploration of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Humor has been praised by philosophers and poets as a balm to soothe the sorrows that outrageous fortune’s slings and arrows cause inevitably, if not incessantly, to each and every one of us. In mundane life, having a sense of humor is seen not only as a positive trait of character, but as a social prerequisite, without which a person’s career and mating prospects are severely diminished, if not annihilated. However, humor is much more than this,…
Pareto and Jung
At first glance, Vilfredo Pareto and Carl Gustav Jung sit at opposite sides of the modern socio-scientific table. The former was a self-styled "positivist" and an abrasively outspoken man of science who, in the name of "empirical observation," never missed a chance to vent scorn at all things mystical, mythical, and metaphysical. The latter was a keen student of the unconscious recesses of our psyche, as well as an avid explorer of all cultures' …
Sociology (15 obras) · Philosophy (14 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Economics (11 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Epistemology (6 obras) · Political Economy and Marxism (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · History (5 obras)