The words of philosophy

Anna Motta; Lidia Palumbo

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-225-0

The words of philosophy: the historical metamorphosis of philosophical vocabulary

Authors

Anna Motta

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2787-259X

Lidia Palumbo

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7678-0707

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-225-0

Keywords:

Philosophy, Words, Metamorphosis, Thought, History

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers

Pages: 464

Language: italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-29907

Abstract: The book offers specialists, students and simple lovers of philosophy a critical reflection on some of the words that have been used over the centuries not to describe ourselves and the world in general, but to specifically describe our problematic relationship with certain domains of experience and certain intellectual practices. This book on the evolution of philosophical words reveals, from a fascinating new perspective, how the history of the convergence and divergence of meanings is the history of philosophy itself.

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Author Biographies

Anna Motta, University of Naples Federico II

Anna Motta is currently Senior Assistant Professor in History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II and Secretary of the Neapolitan “G. Vico” branch of the Italian Philosophical Society (SFI). Principal Investigator of prestigious European research projects, she works mainly on Plato, the Platonic tradition and isagogical issues. Her publications include: Anonimi Prolegomeni alla Filosofia di Platone (Rome 2014), λόγους ποιεῖν. L'eredità platonica e il superamento dell'aporia dei dialoghi (Naples 2018), and Isagogical Crossroads from the Early Imperial Age to the End of Antiquity (Leiden-Boston 2022).

Lidia Palumbo, University of Naples Federico II

Lidia Palumbo is Full Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II and President of the Neapolitan “G. Vico” branch of the Italian Philosophical Society (SFI). Her main interests are Plato, the Platonic tradition, and the literary and dramatic dimension of the Platonic dialogues. Her publications include: Il non essere e l’apparenza. Sul Sofista di Platone (Naples 1994), Rappresentazione, teatro e mondo nei dialoghi di Platone e nella Poetica di Aristotele (Naples 2008), and Su Platone e il linguaggio (Naples 2014).