Places and forms of power from antiquity to contemporary age

Publisher: BUP – Basilicata University Press

Series: Mediterranean Worlds

Pages: 440

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-25521

Abstract: Far from being a rigid designator, the term power takes on several meanings and forms, so much so that the history of mankind can be read as the history of power. The associations it triggers are actually multifaceted as they range from power as the monopoly of force and violence or as a legitimate form of political behaviour, to power as potentiality. What these meanings point to is that the notion of power is an inescapable feature of the history of human social life. Inevitably, human beings are subjected to power and exercise power; ultimately, their very existence has to be related to power conceived as potentiality.

The transversal nature of this complex topic is at the core of this volume that stems from the insights developed within the PhD program “History, Cultures and Knowledge of Mediterranean Europe from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age” held at the University of Basilicata. The different disciplinary backgrounds of the contributors (history, philosophy, philology, language history, literature and art history) have informed the different approaches adopted, all of them unveiling the multiple and changing faces of power, its places and developments.

Summary:

Aldo Corcella - Aurelio Musi, Introduction

     ANCIENT AGE

Ariel Samuel Lewin, Greek and Jewish intellectuals on Roman power. I century BCE - I century CE

Paolo Di Benedetto, Migration and power: ethnic dynamics and Aeolian legitimization of the power in Asia Minor

Marta Marucci, Encomiastic motifs in sepulchral epigrams for Ptolemaic Egypt soldiers (III-I cent. BC)

Roberta Carlesimo, The miles’ power and the amator’s weakness. Considerations about the miles amatorius in Menander’s Perikeiromene

Rosa Mauro, Atreus in Seneca: the character and the lexicon

Marialucia Nolè, Invitus, necessarius, parcus: echoes of the patria potestas in school exercises in Greece and Rome

Fabiana Micca, Reflexes of power in a cup of wine

Antonio Pecci, The sign of the power of Rome on the territory of ancient Lucania: the Via Herculia

Maurizio Castoldi, Architecture and marbles in the self-representation of power in Roman times: the Forum of Grumentum

     MEDIEVAL AGE

Fulvio Delle Donne, Exemplary forms in constructing legitimate power: Alfonso the Magnanimous (1394-1458)

Angela Brescia, The coronation in the literary representation by Petrus de Ebulo: legitimization and delegitimization of the king

Sara Crea, The narration of the power: the story of Henry VI in the Chronicon by Francesco Pipino

Lelio Camassa, The power of the saints in the Decameron: a note on st. Julian’s novella (II 2)

Mariarosa Libonati, The power of historiography in the Gestorum per Alfonsum libri quinque by Tommaso Chaula

Biagio Nuciforo, Bastards and bastardy in the Aragonese Kingdom of Naples: Ferrante’s «dignitissima prole»

     MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AGE

Gianfranco Borrelli, Foucault, Marx and the “conversion to the revolution”

Paolo Augusto Masullo, From situated and tangible to atopic and formless

Roberta Sassano, From ancien régime to the Napoleonic age in Capitanata: where and how power was exercised in Foggia and Cerignola

Michele Fasanella, “Halved” patriots for and in the italian unification. The case of Giacinto Albini

Clelia Tomasco, The “fourth estate” in the teaching press of Basilicata between the 19^th and the 20^th century: some examples of case studies

Cristiana Di Bonito, The diaphasic variation as a linguistic tool for the exercise of a “power”: surveys on the language of some characters of Salvatore Di Giacomo’s Teatro

Tiziana Trippetta, Architectural commissioning in the Liberty, season: two cases in Melfi

Concetta Vaglio, Hannah Arendt. The Power as an action

Rocco Riccio, The cognitive impotence of metaphysical sentences according to Rudolf Carnap

Nicolò Lorenzetto, The concept of “new Power” in Pasolini’s thought. Reflections starting from Scritti corsari

Carmen Caramuta, The subjection of the vital: process, models and power strategies

Alessia Araneo, A positive pharmacology for a proletarized mind