Written on the margins

Felice Ciro Papparo

Written on the margins

Authors

Felice Ciro Papparo

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3600-5028

Keywords:

body, flesh, moral philosophy, ethics, transcendental, possible, Nietzsche, Bruno, Heidegger

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 168

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-26371

Abstract: Are we made of spirit or body? Or are we a «third thing», as Nietzsche said almost 140 years ago? The question is not trivial. If, on the one hand, God’s death does not allow us to trust in the immortal soul that takes away from the torments of the flesh to be destined for final judgement, on the other hand, a mechanistic scientific vision reduces everything to the body, understood as a pure piece of matter, impoverishing our vital experience. Beyond these two moments, Nietzsche intuits a space that remains to be explored, which is both physical and moral, biological and social.

This book continues and deepens a research work on Nietzsche started by Papparo over 25 years ago, first with La passione senza nome (1995), then with Qualcosa del corpo (2016), taking in analysis not only the texts of the German philosopher, but his most recent interpretations. Not only Heidegger (and the French philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century: Bataille, Deleuze or Derrida), but some “friend” thinkers: Stiegler, Masullo, Giametta, Moroncini, Mazzarella, Vitiello, Giugliano... An incessant comparison that gives this book the peculiar physiognomy of a book written on the margins of the many texts examined.

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Author Biography

Felice Ciro Papparo, University of Naples Federico II

Felice Ciro Papparo is professor in Moral Philosophy at the University of Naples “Federico II”. He has dealt with questions concerning the constitution of subjectivity, also in relation to the problem of the body, and their anthropological and ethical implications, through phenomenology, psychoanalysis and literature.

He is the author of over 60 publications, including essays and monographs, on Nietzsche, Freud, Valéry, Bataille, Michel Henry. Among his latest books: In questo groviglio mortale. Due studi freudiani, Quodlibet 2020, Qualcosa del corpo. Nietzsche e la scena dell’anima, ETS 2016, Textura rerum. Parvenza apparenza appariscenza (con L. V. Distaso), ETS 2015, Sciogliere-legare. Esercizi di soggettivazione, ArtstudioPaparo2015.