Gennaro Ascione
Biographic Data
| ID | 85686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gennaro Ascione |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gennaro |
| FAMILY NAME | Ascione |
| SIGNATURE | ASCIONE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Naples - L'Orientale |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8338-0800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts: New Spacetime Coordinates for the Sociological Analysis of the End of Capitalism
This essay introduces a sociological interpretation of Karl Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts . It argues that the mathematical manuscripts concern the problem of providing the theoretical bases to reconceive dynamics of capital accumulation according to new spacetime coordinates, by means of the unthought epistemological implications of the late Marx’s acquisitions on differential calculus. For the circumscribed purpose of this argument, different…
Concept Formation in Global Studies: Post-Western Approaches to Critical Human Knowledge
The book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Eurocentrism and specism. It elaborates a method enabling global epistemics to cope with multiplex challenges coming from geohistorical as well as epistemological standpoints whose methodological potential remains unexplored. It assumes monstrosity as the generative grammar of a new holistic approach to human knowledg…
Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century
Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors address the possibilities to reread Wallerstein's theoretical thoughts and ideas that are related to different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The presented interdisciplinary approach of this anthology thereby intends to highlight the broader value of Wallerstein's ideas, even almost five dec…
Concept Formation in Global Studies: Post-Western Approaches to Critical Human Knowledge
The Shifting Epistemological Horizon of the Pandemic
The reaction to the pandemic has put in place some profound transformations. These transformations do not come entirely anew. They are rooted in the long-term process of oscillation between scientism and relativism. Yet, the fallout of the pandemic promises to work as a new global social regulatory system, different from the ones that predate it. Thereby, it preludes to a paradigmatic epistemological shift. I sketch out four dimensions of such a …
Knowledge in an age of transition: Wallerstein and the future
Immanuel Wallerstein was one among those social scientists who constantly confront their analyses of the structures of injustice and inequality with the problem of the future. As a modern thinker, he provided rationalized forms of forecasting that proved correct previsions. He was right in anticipating the timing and configuration of the age of transition we are currently living, particularly as much as the pandemics informs global historical cha…
Dissonant Notes on the Post‐Secular: Unthinking Secularization in Global Historical Sociology
The article criticizes the assumption that modernity is a rupture in time and space conceivable in terms of the coming of a secular age. It tackles Habermas concept of ‘post‐secular’ and denotes it as an attempt to provide new foundations to modernization narratives, in postmodern terms; it discusses Blumenberg's idea of secularization and questions the historical ontogenesis of what Blumenberg thinks of in terms of the transition to the modern a…
UnthinkingCapital: Conceptual and Terminological Landmarks
In this article I take issues with some Eurocentric limits of the two contradictions of capital: capital/labour and capital/nature. These limits are exposed by elaborating on two theoretical insights from researches in critical race studies and indigenous political ecologies: respectively thingification and uncommon. These insights produce a tension between colonialism and capitalism, which calls for a post-Eurocentric process of concept formatio…
Modernity and Eurocentrism
Modernity continues to dominate the intellectual scene across disciplines and structures of knowledge production, as well as appearing to be the uncontested anthropological horizon for the majority of people within and outside the West. However, modernity is under scrutiny, its theoretical foundations radically contested and its spatiotemporal boundaries questioned (Adams et al. 2005; Bhambra 2007a; Chakrabarty 2008; Dirlik 2012; Fischer 2004; Qu…
Science and the Decolonization of Social Theory: Unthinking Modernity
This book addresses the ideological figure of modernity, its presumed historical significance as an era, and its theoretical adequacy as a frame. It shows how science is evoked to prevent the sociolog
Rethinking the absence of post-Western International Relations theory in India: Advaitic monism’ as an alternative epistemological resource
The transformation of the Eurocentric epistemological base of International Relations, without inadvertently generating a ‘derivative discourse’ of Western International Relations, requires an intellectual flight over rigid boundaries of Western scientism, thereby reorienting the discipline of International Relations itself towards a post-Western epoch. As such, post-Western International Relations theory can be largely viewed as an offspring of …
Decolonizing the 'Global: The Coloniality of Method and the Problem of the Unit of Analysis
What should 'global' stand for in order to qualify 'historical sociology' when it aspires to move beyond its Eurocentric foundations? The answer to this question lies in the ability to investigate the limits that Eurocentrism imposes on the possibility of reformulating the world as a unit of analysis, and simultaneously in tackling the centrality of the colonial question in methodological and epistemological terms, rather than exclusively in hist…
Global Historical Sociology: Theoretical and Methodological Issues - an Introduction
The ongoing collective effort to turn historical sociology into a globally oriented research programme implies a profound reconsideration of its conceptual and terminological premises, as well as a constant critical gaze over the colonial geopolitics of knowledge sociological thinking draws legitimation from. Three strategies are here discussed canonization, re-signification and re-conceptualization
The great convergence: Science, Modernity and the Dilemmas of Ethnocentrism
This article registers a theroetical dilemma. On the one hand, the adequacy of the notion of modernity articulated by means of tradition/modernity comes to be profoundly destabilized by non-Eurocentric anti-essentialistic narratives of science; on the other hand, in spite of this instability, the idea of modernity remains the epistemological frame to provide an explanation of this same instability, by reformulating, extending and eluding it. The …
Unthinking Modernity: Historical-Sociological, Epistemological and Logical Pathways
Modernity remains the privileged theoretical frame and narrative for long term processes at the global scale, notwithstanding the heterogeneously contested definition of its spatiotemporal coordinates, the irreconcilability of contradictions inherent to its alleged emancipatory power and the accusations of complicity with Eurocentrism. This article explores some logical, epistemological and historical-sociological contradictions inherent in the e…
Rethinking the absence of post-Western International Relations theory in India: Advaitic monism’ as an alternative epistemological resource
The transformation of the Eurocentric epistemological base of International Relations, without inadvertently generating a ‘derivative discourse’ of Western International Relations, requires an intellectual flight over rigid boundaries of Western scientism, thereby reorienting the discipline of International Relations itself towards a post-Western epoch. As such, post-Western International Relations theory can be largely viewed as an offspring of …
Decolonizing the 'Global: The Coloniality of Method and the Problem of the Unit of Analysis
What should 'global' stand for in order to qualify 'historical sociology' when it aspires to move beyond its Eurocentric foundations? The answer to this question lies in the ability to investigate the limits that Eurocentrism imposes on the possibility of reformulating the world as a unit of analysis, and simultaneously in tackling the centrality of the colonial question in methodological and epistemological terms, rather than exclusively in hist…
Science and the Decolonization of Social Theory: Unthinking Modernity
This book addresses the ideological figure of modernity, its presumed historical significance as an era, and its theoretical adequacy as a frame. It shows how science is evoked to prevent the sociolog
Global Historical Sociology: Theoretical and Methodological Issues - an Introduction
The ongoing collective effort to turn historical sociology into a globally oriented research programme implies a profound reconsideration of its conceptual and terminological premises, as well as a constant critical gaze over the colonial geopolitics of knowledge sociological thinking draws legitimation from. Three strategies are here discussed canonization, re-signification and re-conceptualization
Unthinking Modernity: Historical-Sociological, Epistemological and Logical Pathways
Modernity remains the privileged theoretical frame and narrative for long term processes at the global scale, notwithstanding the heterogeneously contested definition of its spatiotemporal coordinates, the irreconcilability of contradictions inherent to its alleged emancipatory power and the accusations of complicity with Eurocentrism. This article explores some logical, epistemological and historical-sociological contradictions inherent in the e…
Dissonant Notes on the Post‐Secular: Unthinking Secularization in Global Historical Sociology
The article criticizes the assumption that modernity is a rupture in time and space conceivable in terms of the coming of a secular age. It tackles Habermas concept of ‘post‐secular’ and denotes it as an attempt to provide new foundations to modernization narratives, in postmodern terms; it discusses Blumenberg's idea of secularization and questions the historical ontogenesis of what Blumenberg thinks of in terms of the transition to the modern a…
Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century
Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors address the possibilities to reread Wallerstein's theoretical thoughts and ideas that are related to different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The presented interdisciplinary approach of this anthology thereby intends to highlight the broader value of Wallerstein's ideas, even almost five dec…
The great convergence: Science, Modernity and the Dilemmas of Ethnocentrism
This article registers a theroetical dilemma. On the one hand, the adequacy of the notion of modernity articulated by means of tradition/modernity comes to be profoundly destabilized by non-Eurocentric anti-essentialistic narratives of science; on the other hand, in spite of this instability, the idea of modernity remains the epistemological frame to provide an explanation of this same instability, by reformulating, extending and eluding it. The …
Unthinking Modernity: Historical-Sociological, Epistemological and Logical Pathways
Modernity remains the privileged theoretical frame and narrative for long term processes at the global scale, notwithstanding the heterogeneously contested definition of its spatiotemporal coordinates, the irreconcilability of contradictions inherent to its alleged emancipatory power and the accusations of complicity with Eurocentrism. This article explores some logical, epistemological and historical-sociological contradictions inherent in the e…
The great convergence: Science, Modernity and the Dilemmas of Ethnocentrism
This article registers a theroetical dilemma. On the one hand, the adequacy of the notion of modernity articulated by means of tradition/modernity comes to be profoundly destabilized by non-Eurocentric anti-essentialistic narratives of science; on the other hand, in spite of this instability, the idea of modernity remains the epistemological frame to provide an explanation of this same instability, by reformulating, extending and eluding it. The …
Modernity and Eurocentrism
Modernity continues to dominate the intellectual scene across disciplines and structures of knowledge production, as well as appearing to be the uncontested anthropological horizon for the majority of people within and outside the West. However, modernity is under scrutiny, its theoretical foundations radically contested and its spatiotemporal boundaries questioned (Adams et al. 2005; Bhambra 2007a; Chakrabarty 2008; Dirlik 2012; Fischer 2004; Qu…
Science and the Decolonization of Social Theory: Unthinking Modernity
This book addresses the ideological figure of modernity, its presumed historical significance as an era, and its theoretical adequacy as a frame. It shows how science is evoked to prevent the sociolog
Rethinking the absence of post-Western International Relations theory in India: Advaitic monism’ as an alternative epistemological resource
The transformation of the Eurocentric epistemological base of International Relations, without inadvertently generating a ‘derivative discourse’ of Western International Relations, requires an intellectual flight over rigid boundaries of Western scientism, thereby reorienting the discipline of International Relations itself towards a post-Western epoch. As such, post-Western International Relations theory can be largely viewed as an offspring of …
Decolonizing the 'Global: The Coloniality of Method and the Problem of the Unit of Analysis
What should 'global' stand for in order to qualify 'historical sociology' when it aspires to move beyond its Eurocentric foundations? The answer to this question lies in the ability to investigate the limits that Eurocentrism imposes on the possibility of reformulating the world as a unit of analysis, and simultaneously in tackling the centrality of the colonial question in methodological and epistemological terms, rather than exclusively in hist…
Global Historical Sociology: Theoretical and Methodological Issues - an Introduction
The ongoing collective effort to turn historical sociology into a globally oriented research programme implies a profound reconsideration of its conceptual and terminological premises, as well as a constant critical gaze over the colonial geopolitics of knowledge sociological thinking draws legitimation from. Three strategies are here discussed canonization, re-signification and re-conceptualization
Dissonant Notes on the Post‐Secular: Unthinking Secularization in Global Historical Sociology
The article criticizes the assumption that modernity is a rupture in time and space conceivable in terms of the coming of a secular age. It tackles Habermas concept of ‘post‐secular’ and denotes it as an attempt to provide new foundations to modernization narratives, in postmodern terms; it discusses Blumenberg's idea of secularization and questions the historical ontogenesis of what Blumenberg thinks of in terms of the transition to the modern a…
UnthinkingCapital: Conceptual and Terminological Landmarks
In this article I take issues with some Eurocentric limits of the two contradictions of capital: capital/labour and capital/nature. These limits are exposed by elaborating on two theoretical insights from researches in critical race studies and indigenous political ecologies: respectively thingification and uncommon. These insights produce a tension between colonialism and capitalism, which calls for a post-Eurocentric process of concept formatio…
Knowledge in an age of transition: Wallerstein and the future
Immanuel Wallerstein was one among those social scientists who constantly confront their analyses of the structures of injustice and inequality with the problem of the future. As a modern thinker, he provided rationalized forms of forecasting that proved correct previsions. He was right in anticipating the timing and configuration of the age of transition we are currently living, particularly as much as the pandemics informs global historical cha…
The Shifting Epistemological Horizon of the Pandemic
The reaction to the pandemic has put in place some profound transformations. These transformations do not come entirely anew. They are rooted in the long-term process of oscillation between scientism and relativism. Yet, the fallout of the pandemic promises to work as a new global social regulatory system, different from the ones that predate it. Thereby, it preludes to a paradigmatic epistemological shift. I sketch out four dimensions of such a …
Concept Formation in Global Studies: Post-Western Approaches to Critical Human Knowledge
The book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Eurocentrism and specism. It elaborates a method enabling global epistemics to cope with multiplex challenges coming from geohistorical as well as epistemological standpoints whose methodological potential remains unexplored. It assumes monstrosity as the generative grammar of a new holistic approach to human knowledg…
Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century
Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors address the possibilities to reread Wallerstein's theoretical thoughts and ideas that are related to different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The presented interdisciplinary approach of this anthology thereby intends to highlight the broader value of Wallerstein's ideas, even almost five dec…
Concept Formation in Global Studies: Post-Western Approaches to Critical Human Knowledge
Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts: New Spacetime Coordinates for the Sociological Analysis of the End of Capitalism
This essay introduces a sociological interpretation of Karl Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts . It argues that the mathematical manuscripts concern the problem of providing the theoretical bases to reconceive dynamics of capital accumulation according to new spacetime coordinates, by means of the unthought epistemological implications of the late Marx’s acquisitions on differential calculus. For the circumscribed purpose of this argument, different…
Epistemology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Social science (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Modernity (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works)