Miseria della critica. Spengler redivivo

Fortunato Maria Cacciatore

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-184-0

Miseria della critica. Spengler redivivo

Authors

Fortunato Maria Cacciatore

University of Calabria

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9080-9396

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-184-0

Keywords:

History of Philosophy, Oswald Spengler, West, Crisis, Democracy

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA Press (Federico II University Press)

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers

Pages: 51

Languages: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-29251

Abstract: A spectral and haunting figure, Oswald Spengler, with his main work (The Decline of the West) reappears on the scene every time the present is experienced as a moment of crisis or political, ideological, cultural transition. Even in our own time, there are references, researches, and articles that, although in different ways, all seem to be connected by a worried regard for his diagnoses. In the two parts of this study, is made an attempt to show, however, why Spengler cannot be evoked (or dismissed) as the anti-West. Rather, it is a matter of pointing out how the mimetic blurring with the positions of the alleged prophet of doom, in the name of the West's self-love and its exceptionalism, risks confirming the prognosis of the decline, testifying to the misery, or impotence, of the critique aimed at opposing its fulfilment.

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Author Biography

Fortunato Maria Cacciatore, University of Calabria

Fortunato Maria Cacciatore is Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities, University of Calabria. His research focuses, in particular, on the investigation and reconstruction of philosophy's relations with the challenges and problems posed by different historical, political, ethical and ideological conjunctures. Besides Spengler, he has written books and essays on Hegel, on Marx and on Marxisms (Gramsci), on democracy in relation to the question of migration, on contemporary political philosophy in relation to the question of 'populism' (especially with reference to E. Laclau, of whom he has also edited some Italian translations).