Genealogies of Modernity: critical perspectives

Raffaele Carbone; Luca Scafoglio

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-321-9

Genealogies of Modernity: critical perspectives

Authors

Raffaele Carbone

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4974-2315

Luca Scafoglio

University of Salerno

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-321-9

Keywords:

Genealogy, Modernity, Critique Horkheimer, Adorno, Weber

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers

Pages: 248

Language: Italian

Abstract: The essays collected in this volume provide investigations into the nodes of modernity and its representations from a critical-genealogical perspective. This approach is often in a complex relationship with the decolonial challenging of the great Eurocentric narratives and focusses on the potential uses of concepts and tools that have emerged in the tensions and anxieties of the processes of self-understanding within European cultural history. By doing so, it seeks to uncover the flaws in dominant paradigms, dwelling on uncertainties, criticalities and discrepancies. It is a work carried out in the interstices, through a philological engagement with the texts (as well as with the contexts), without any claim to definitiveness and with an awareness of the perspectival limits within which it operates. The contributions in this book, which gathers the proceedings of three seminar cycles held between Naples and Paris from 2019 to 2023, aim to address specific issues and figures connected to the debate on modernity. This includes thinkers such as Weber, Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger and Sartre, who questioned the specificities and the genealogy of the modernity, showing that it is constituted through a non-linear, polysemantic process, rooted in a plurality of factors.

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Author Biographies

Raffaele Carbone, University of Naples Federico II

Raffaele Carbone is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II. He also coordinates the HUMANISE laboratory and the PRIN project ‘Paradoxical Humanism and Environmentalism’. He has been a fellow at the Centre d'Histoire des Systèmes de Pensée Moderne (Paris), the Collegium de Lyon, the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin), the Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes, as well as an adjunct professor at the Université François Rabelais de Tours and the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3. His research focuses on modern philosophy, the reception of modern authors in the 20th century and critical theory.

Luca Scafoglio, University of Salerno

Luca Scafoglio, qualified as Associate Professor in Moral Philosophy, conducts research in collaboration with the University of Salerno. The main focus of his work is Critical Theory, to which he has devoted three monographs (Forms of Dialectics. Herbert Marcuse and the Idea of Critical Theory, Manifestolibri, 2009; La merce e il mito. Su Adorno e la teoria critica, Manifestolibri, 2013; Il disagio dell'astrazione. Una lettura a partire da Adorno, La Città del Sole, 2021) and several articles. Currently, his studies focus on a reinterpretation of the Frankfurt tradition in comparison with decolonial reflections.