Diego Fusaro eBooks
eBooks di Diego Fusaro editi da Mimesis International
Epicuro's pharmacy: Philosophy as therapy for the soul. E-book. Formato EPUB Diego Fusaro - Mimesis International, 2019 -
Since antiquity, Epicurus’ thought has been compared to a powerful drug able to cure the pains of the soul that have always tormented man preventing him from living a peaceful existence: but we know that the Greek term pharmakon can be interpreted in its two opposite meanings of medicine and poison; and indeed, the same duplicity animates Epicurus’ philosophy which, by acting as a medicine for the human soul, also has the effect of a poison, destroying from within, philosophy traditionally conceived as a disinterested contemplation of truth. The philosophical revolution undertaken by Epicurus as a fracture with respect to all the previous tradition, from Thales to Aristotle, coincides with an inversion of the traditional relation between man and cosmos, between theory and practice: the classic question “what is reality made of?” is replaced by the Epicurean question that is at the basis of his philosophical anthropocentrism: “how must reality be made and how should one understand it in order to be happy?”. Each specific articulation of Epicurean philosophy is subordinate to the task of achieving a happy existence that is in no way inferior to any of the divine realities.
Philosophy and hope: Bloch and löwith interpreters of marx. E-book. Formato EPUB Diego Fusaro - Mimesis International, 2018 -
One of the greatest unsolved issues that Karl Marx bequeathed to his interpreters concerns the legitimacy of practical and theoretical hope, both in the frame of his thought and in the wider horizon of philosophy. The entire Marxian work seems to be enigmatically suspended between the opposite dimensions of science and hope. The interpretative lines chosen by Ernst Bloch and Karl Löwith see in Marx a philosopher of hope more than a philosopher of science; and these reflections recognise the inevitable utopian tension in relation to which science is a secondary and functional phenomenon. They both claim that hope is at the heart of Marx’s thought; however, given the antithetic views about this feeling held in their philosophical reflections, they end up with an opposite evaluation of hope.
Europe and Capitalism: Regaining the Future. E-book. Formato EPUB Diego Fusaro - Mimesis International, 2015 -
The current E?uropean Union is too often presented as the Europe of peoples and freedom.This essay overturns this common way of understanding our political reality. In fact, upon closer and unbiased analysis, Europe appears to be the result of a “passive revolution” (Gramsci) through which the dominant class, after 1989, has managed to stabilise capitalist relations of power. This happened at the expense of the force which had partly resisted it: the sovereign nation state, which gave primacy to the political over the economic and guaranteed social rights. Marking the absolute triumph ofcapitalism, the creation of the European Union has managed to deprive politics of any hegemony: it has paved the way to the unstoppable cycle of privatisations and cuts to public spending, to the enforced precarisation of work and to the ever sharper reduction of social rights, imposing economic violence to the detriment of the subaltern and the economically weakest peoples.For this reason, the only way to open up the future once again, to defend peoples and labour, and to carry on that struggle once fought by Marx and Gramsci, is a radical critique of the euro and contemporary finance.