Il Pensiero

Solitudes

By the end of modern times, the solitary man had become a destitute and infirm man, though curable with the balms of sociability; today, the "hyperconnected" condition of the contemporary men is quite the opposite: their infirmity a new and more dangerous one. The paradox of the solitude of the poet, who distances himself from everyone to be able to speak to everyone, is one of the myths par excellence of Italian literature. In Solitudes, Giorgio Ficara pens the stories of great solitary poets from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century: Petrarch, lost in an unattainable dream of inner peace and solitary life; Tasso, alone in the small circle of creation; Alfieri, who yearns to be alone amidst the voices of the world; Foscolo on his lonely way to the heliconic peaks; Leopardi, whose effective solitude of the poet-philosopher faces the divine solitude of nature; D'Annunzio, alone in front of a necklace that breaks. For all of them, solitude "in the end is destiny itself, the necessity to which one is subject at the acme of poetic expression". Over the centuries, this intellectual legacy of solitary life has become one of the many ways in which Italy deeply influenced European literature and culture at large.

Rivista di Estetica 86

The concept of speculative thinking is in many ways ambiguous. First, the concept of 'speculation' refers, on the one hand, to philosophical research, i.e., to the need for philosophy to remain committed to 'pure' thought and not to bend to instances allogenous to conceptual ones, while, on the other hand, it refers to financial transactions, aimed at profiting from fluctuations in market prices. Second, even within philosophical discourse, the term remains equivocal. At times, 'speculation' refers to an inquiry that - precisely by being merely speculative - seems detached from the practical concerns of the world, thereby indicating the essential theoretical element of philosophical inquiry; at others, the term marks the extreme experience of thinking in which ordinary discursiveness touches its limits. After a period of relative oblivion, the notion of the 'speculative' has returned today within contemporary philosophical debate. This special issue focuses on the notion of 'speculative thinking', both in its Hegelian and neo-Hegelian interpretations and in contexts that partially diverge from that tradition, aiming to philosophically explore the term's rich and varied meanings.

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