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A Philosophical Exploration of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Author: Giorgio Baruchello
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2022-11-07
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, and so much else. In particular, humor can accompany cruelty, inform it, sustain it, and exemplify it. Therefore, in this book, we provide a comprehensive, reasoned exploration of the vast literature on the concepts of humor and cruelty, as these have been tackled in Western philosophy, humanities, and social sciences, especially psychology. Also, the apparent cacophony of extant interpretations of these two concepts is explained as the inevitable and even useful result of the polysemy inherent to all common-sense concepts, in line with the understanding of concepts developed by M. Polanyi in the 20th century. Thus, a thorough, nuanced grasp of their complex mutual relationship is established, and many platitudes affecting today's received views, and scholarship, are cast aside. "Like Aristotle and Dewey, Arnarsson and Baruchello do not define their terms at the outset, but instead they relentlessly pursue the meanings of two ordinary words that everyone vaguely understads to arrive at a critical insight into the concepts these words represent, which are both disparate and interrelated." - Richard Marc Rubin, President, George Santayana Society
C’era ancora tempo
In questo racconto, l’autrice mette in risalto una famiglia una come tante, in un piccolo paese, il destino gli è avverso e fa sì che questa famigliola composta da otto persone; i genitori e sei figli vanno incontro ad una serie di peripezie. Ma essi non si deprimono mai, anzi si rimboccano le maniche e sono pronti a rialzarsi più volte, per cui fino alla fine anche dopo una brutta epidemia dovuta ad un virus, che porta alla morte molte persone anziane in presenza di alcune patologie particolari, come respiratorie. Non si fanno sopraffare da un destino crudele, perché il loro motto è “c’è ancora tempo”, per la famiglia Sally.
The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel, 1859-1925
This book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italy’s unification (1861) and the rise of fascism, many writers gave voice to anxieties connected with the ideas of evolution and progress. This study shows how Italian authors borrowed and reworked a scientific vocabulary to write about the contradictions and the contrasting tensions of Italy’s cultural and political-economic modernization. It focuses, above all, on novels by Italo Svevo, Federico De Roberto and Luigi Pirandello. The analysis centers on such topics as the struggle against adverse social conditions in capitalistic society, the risk of failing to survive the struggle itself, the adaptive issues of individuals uprooted from their family and work environments, the concerns about the heredity of maladapted characters. Accordingly, the book also argues that the hybridization and variation of both narrative forms and collective mindsets describes the modernist awareness of the cultural complexity experienced in Italy and Europe at this time.