Matteo J Stettler
Biographic Data
| ID | 6249906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matteo J Stettler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matteo J |
| FAMILY NAME | Stettler |
| SIGNATURE | STETTLER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7287-6739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond Agamben’s bare life
Recent scholarship has repeatedly highlighted a significant flaw in Giorgio Agamben’s Remnants of Auschwitz : its inability to account for acts of resistance in the Lager, or its aprioristic closure to the very possibility of such acts. As a result, instead of clarifying ‘the sense and reasons’ behind the behaviour of both executioners and victims of the Shoah, as his work initially sets out to do, Agamben’s analysis ends up rendering their condu…
Hadot Among the Medievalists
The reception of Hadot's work on the tradition of spiritual exercises among historians of medieval philosophy has rarely produced the results one might reasonably have expected.In this revisitation of the historiography on the notion of "intellectual felicity," I thus hope to be able first to provide a corrective to the faulty understanding that some medievalists still seem to have of Hadot's contribution to the study of philosophy as a way of li…
Philosophy, Theory or Way of Life? Controversies in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Beyond the Rhetoric of the Octavius
Studies of the sources and structure of the Octavius have for long concluded that there lays no authorial intention that is not merely rhetorical behind the “mosaistic” mode of composition of Minucius Felix’s apologetic dialogue, its borrowings from Cicero (especially his De natura deorum ) being a mere tribute to the dialogic tradition and its bipartite framework mindlessly reproducing the rhetorical exercise of the controversia ( thesis - antit…
Of Cartesianism and Spiritual Exercises
This article challenges the recurrent critique that Pierre Hadot’s identification of ancient philosophy with the practice of spiritual exercises introduces a non- or irrational dimension into metaphilosophy. The occasion to do this is provided by Kerem Eksen’s recent reading of Descartes’s Meditations as consisting of solely intellectual, rather than spiritual, exercises—since the latter, Eksen claims, involve extrarational means and ends. Part 2…
The Late Foucault
The Use and Misuse of Pleasure
Chapter II of Foucault's The Care of the Self, 'The Cultivation of the Self,' is arguably one of the most controversial sections of the entire History of Sexuality. The diatribe over this chapter was initially mounted by Pierre Hadot's critical essay 'Reflections on the Idea of the 'Cultivation of the Self." Therein, Hadot objects to Foucault’s dissolution of the Stoic doctrinal antinomy between voluptas ('pleasure') and gaudium ('joy') and, ther…
Beyond Agamben’s bare life
Recent scholarship has repeatedly highlighted a significant flaw in Giorgio Agamben’s Remnants of Auschwitz : its inability to account for acts of resistance in the Lager, or its aprioristic closure to the very possibility of such acts. As a result, instead of clarifying ‘the sense and reasons’ behind the behaviour of both executioners and victims of the Shoah, as his work initially sets out to do, Agamben’s analysis ends up rendering their condu…
Of Cartesianism and Spiritual Exercises
This article challenges the recurrent critique that Pierre Hadot’s identification of ancient philosophy with the practice of spiritual exercises introduces a non- or irrational dimension into metaphilosophy. The occasion to do this is provided by Kerem Eksen’s recent reading of Descartes’s Meditations as consisting of solely intellectual, rather than spiritual, exercises—since the latter, Eksen claims, involve extrarational means and ends. Part 2…
The Late Foucault
The Use and Misuse of Pleasure
Chapter II of Foucault's The Care of the Self, 'The Cultivation of the Self,' is arguably one of the most controversial sections of the entire History of Sexuality. The diatribe over this chapter was initially mounted by Pierre Hadot's critical essay 'Reflections on the Idea of the 'Cultivation of the Self." Therein, Hadot objects to Foucault’s dissolution of the Stoic doctrinal antinomy between voluptas ('pleasure') and gaudium ('joy') and, ther…
Beyond the Rhetoric of the Octavius
Studies of the sources and structure of the Octavius have for long concluded that there lays no authorial intention that is not merely rhetorical behind the “mosaistic” mode of composition of Minucius Felix’s apologetic dialogue, its borrowings from Cicero (especially his De natura deorum ) being a mere tribute to the dialogic tradition and its bipartite framework mindlessly reproducing the rhetorical exercise of the controversia ( thesis - antit…
Hadot Among the Medievalists
The reception of Hadot's work on the tradition of spiritual exercises among historians of medieval philosophy has rarely produced the results one might reasonably have expected.In this revisitation of the historiography on the notion of "intellectual felicity," I thus hope to be able first to provide a corrective to the faulty understanding that some medievalists still seem to have of Hadot's contribution to the study of philosophy as a way of li…
Philosophy, Theory or Way of Life? Controversies in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Beyond Agamben’s bare life
Recent scholarship has repeatedly highlighted a significant flaw in Giorgio Agamben’s Remnants of Auschwitz : its inability to account for acts of resistance in the Lager, or its aprioristic closure to the very possibility of such acts. As a result, instead of clarifying ‘the sense and reasons’ behind the behaviour of both executioners and victims of the Shoah, as his work initially sets out to do, Agamben’s analysis ends up rendering their condu…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (2 works)