Alessandro Cazzola
Università di Bologna, Philosophical Sciences, Graduate Student
- Scuola di Archivistica, Paleografia e Diplomatica, Archivio di Stato di Modena, UndergraduateUniversità di Bologna, Philosophy, Graduate Student, and 2 moreadd
- Philosophy, Philosophy Of Language, History of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Ancient History, and 17 morePhilosophy of Science, Social Sciences, History, Sociology, Humanities and Social Sciences, Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Philology, Classics, Latin Literature, Classical philology, Seneca, Tacitus, Library and Archival Science, Archival Studies, and Diplomaticsedit
La ‘Scanzia P’ della Libreria Grande dei Gesuiti, in M. Bonazza, E. Spinelli (eds.), Ars nova discoverta. Ballate di Francesco Landini nella Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea di Ferrara, Ferrara, Nautilus, 2022, pp. 33-47.
Research Interests: Library Science, Archival science, Jesuit history, Library and Information Science, Diplomatics, and 12 moreLatin Palaeography, History of Library and Information Science, Palaeography, Jesuit education, The Early Jesuits and Catholic Reform, Jesuits, Archival Theory, Manuscript studies, codicology, palaeography, medieval paper, Chaucer, circulation of texts and books, history of the book, electronic editing and digital humanities, Biblioteca, Biblioteconomia, Library and Archival Science, and Library and Archival Research and the Humanities
This paper draws a comparison between Theodor W. Adorno and Edmund Husserl according to a mended dialogue in the aesthetic field. In this regard, the essay does not ponder over the customary critique on the so-called idealistic phase of... more
This paper draws a comparison between Theodor W. Adorno and Edmund Husserl according to a mended dialogue in the aesthetic field. In this regard, the essay does not ponder over the customary critique on the so-called idealistic phase of phenomenology, embodied by Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and to a Phenomenological philosophy, and copes with the genetic stage of Husserl's thought, signified by Formal and transcendental logic and Cartesian meditations. The relevant influence of Husserl's philosophy on Adorno's aesthetics springs out of the last and mature phase of transcendental phenomenology. It results, notably , from a renewed notion of intentionality whereby a critical concern with sub-jectivity contributes reshaping the core on which artworks detect and conceal the rational purport of intentio so that their thingly feature reconfigures the status of the aesthetic subject. As a result, Adorno's aesthetics may earn a new perspective on the questioned relationship between subject and object through the comparison with Husserl's phenomenology.
Research Interests: Theodor Adorno, Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, Edmund Husserl, Phenomenological Research Methodology, and 13 moreAdorno, Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, Husserl, Phenomenology (Research Methodology), Phenomenology of the Body (Philosophy), Theodor W. Adorno, Husserlian phenomenology, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Philosophy: Husserl, Aesthetic Theory From Kant to Adorno, Adorno/Horkheimer, Continental Philosophy and Aesthetics, and Husserl Studies
Reflections upon artistic activities as technique require an exhaustive examination in aesthetics. This paper provides an attempt to sketch out a possible connection between skills related to making art and aesthetic thinking. By means of... more
Reflections upon artistic activities as technique require an exhaustive examination in aesthetics. This paper provides an attempt to sketch out a possible connection between skills related to making art and aesthetic thinking. By means of phenomenological insight, the function of technique is pursued consistently with the considerations of technique as subordinate to a global performative skill or as its development into a general principle. This framework ends in accounting for the notion of craft and its relationship with art. Further, craft encompasses the scope of technique in all its manifestations, since the boundaries of art are broadened to reach the most comprehensive outlook of human activities. While in Formaggio this task is accomplished through the idea of artistry, Pareyson expounds the features of an art theory within the unitary notion of formativity. Finally, the function of technique accounts for an ethical implication of human doing.
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The author argues that the aesthetic reflections of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno are mutually intertwined as they sketch out an aesthetic theory portrayed by the underlying notions of “play” and “sublime”. The essay shows the... more
The author argues that the aesthetic reflections of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno are mutually intertwined as they sketch out an aesthetic theory portrayed by the underlying notions of “play” and “sublime”. The essay shows the extent to which this relationship may be upheld by enquiring into the aesthetic end of Benjamin’s theory of experience and the personal reflections of Adorno on his oeuvre. Further, the essay examines, on the one hand, how play may dialogue both with the modern experience of the XIX century, as Benjamin expounds, and with the aesthetic experience of artworks, as Adorno elucidates, and, on the other hand, establishes that the sublime acts as objective facet by shortening the distance between subject and otherness. By their fruitful encounter, the author claims that Benjamin and Adorno agree on a framework of aesthetic theory encompassing the decadence of aura, renewed by play, and the recovery of appearance, ascertained by the feeling of the sublime, by acknowledging their common purport. This framework is set within a critical reshaping of the interplay between aesthetic subject and objectivity as it hinges on the relationship between play, i.e. the setting of subjective reflection, and the feeling of the sublime, which endorses the intertwinement of sensibility and reason.
Research Interests: Aesthetics, Walter Benjamin, Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, Benjamin, Walter, Adorno, Benjamin and Bloch, and 9 moreTheodor W. Adorno, Philosophy of history, Philosophy of political action, Walter Benjamin, Walter Benjamin, 'The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility', Kantian Sublime, Walter Benjamin and Judaism, Aesthetic Theory From Kant to Adorno, Theory of Sublime, The Aura Walter Benjamin, and Continental Philosophy and Aesthetics
The present work wants to establish a comparison between Theodor W. Adorno’s dialectical thought and Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology; moreover it focuses on a somehow unusual field – aesthetics – which has been so far overlooked in studies... more
The present work wants to establish a comparison between Theodor W. Adorno’s dialectical thought and Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology; moreover it focuses on a somehow unusual field – aesthetics – which has been so far overlooked in studies on this issue and hastens the enquiry on the arrangement of experience merged with a genetic outlook of conceptual construction. Furthermore, the Husserlian influence is understood here as providing a fruitful understanding of the harshness of the object, blended, nonetheless, by changes occurring both in expression and form of cogitatum.
The distinctive feature of Adorno’s reading of Husserl lies in the outcome of phenomenological reflections revised in the aesthetic field of experience and in the issue of expression unfolded in the comparison between form and mimesis, reckoned in their intertwinement.
Thus, the influence of phenomenology is disclosed by a recovery of the subjective endeavour even in the Adornian concept of the primacy of the object. Finally, the paper attempts to scrutinize Husserl’s most prominent contributions on the design of thought
shaped by the occurrence of the question of the object as acknowledged in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory (1970), where the experience of the wholeness of object-artwork is framed by the effort of the subject to break its muteness.
The distinctive feature of Adorno’s reading of Husserl lies in the outcome of phenomenological reflections revised in the aesthetic field of experience and in the issue of expression unfolded in the comparison between form and mimesis, reckoned in their intertwinement.
Thus, the influence of phenomenology is disclosed by a recovery of the subjective endeavour even in the Adornian concept of the primacy of the object. Finally, the paper attempts to scrutinize Husserl’s most prominent contributions on the design of thought
shaped by the occurrence of the question of the object as acknowledged in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory (1970), where the experience of the wholeness of object-artwork is framed by the effort of the subject to break its muteness.
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Presentation given on 21st July 2022 on the occasion of “Art & Truth - Kunst und Wahrheit” Summer School, Kloster Mariastein, Klosterplatz, 1–4, 4115 Mariastein, Schweiz, 19th-24th July 2022.
Research Interests: Frankfurt School (Philosophy), Literary Theory, Walter Benjamin, Adorno's Philosophy of Music, Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, and 13 moreFrankfurt School, Adorno, Benjamin and Bloch, Theodor W. Adorno, Literary studies, Philosophy of history, Philosophy of political action, Walter Benjamin, Phenomenology/Post-Phenomenology, Philosophical Hermeneutics, Early Frankfurt School and Walter Benjamin, Marx and Western Marxism, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Literatureocial and, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Critical theory and Frankfurt school - Marx, Aesthetic Theory From Kant to Adorno, Critical Theory/Frankfurt School, Adorno/Horkheimer, Adorno and Horkheimer, and Adorno and Hegel
Presentation held on 5th April 2022, Biblioteca Ariostea, via Scienze, 17 - 44121, Ferrara (FE), Italy. It aimed at reconstructing the history of the library collections, examined from a codicological perspective, pertaining to the... more
Presentation held on 5th April 2022, Biblioteca Ariostea, via Scienze, 17 - 44121, Ferrara (FE), Italy.
It aimed at reconstructing the history of the library collections, examined from a codicological perspective, pertaining to the Jesuit House in Ferrara at the time of the Company’s suppression and correlating it to the archival documents, e.g. inventories, finding aids, indexes, that were issued as soon as these collections were entrusted to the Clerics Regular of Somasca and the local university library. The main outcome of the research accounts for the relationship between the bibliographic descriptions retrievable in the archival documents and the books stored in the library repositories.
It aimed at reconstructing the history of the library collections, examined from a codicological perspective, pertaining to the Jesuit House in Ferrara at the time of the Company’s suppression and correlating it to the archival documents, e.g. inventories, finding aids, indexes, that were issued as soon as these collections were entrusted to the Clerics Regular of Somasca and the local university library. The main outcome of the research accounts for the relationship between the bibliographic descriptions retrievable in the archival documents and the books stored in the library repositories.
Research Interests: Archival Studies, Library Science, Book History, Archival science, Jesuit history, and 15 moreCodicology, Library and Information Science, Diplomatics, History of Archives, Latin Palaeography, Rare Books And Manuscripts (Library Science), Library history, Latin codicology, Palaeography, Jesuit education, The Early Jesuits and Catholic Reform, Paleography and Codicology, Archival Research, Library and Archival Science, and Christian codicology
Talk given on 26th July on the occasion of the Summer Module Course “Affective Intentionality in Medieval Philosophy and Phenomenology” (Forschungsfragen der Philosophie II, 06-Ph-B-P6/2-152-m01), University of Würzburg, 26th-30th July... more
Talk given on 26th July on the occasion of the Summer Module Course “Affective Intentionality in Medieval Philosophy and Phenomenology” (Forschungsfragen der Philosophie II, 06-Ph-B-P6/2-152-m01), University of Würzburg, 26th-30th July 2021 (held online via Zoom)
Research Interests: Medieval Philosophy, Phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, Intentionality, Phenomenology of the body, and 13 morePhilosophy (Medieval Studies), Intentionality and interpretation in art, Husserl, Phenomenology (Research Methodology), Phenomenology of Space and Place, Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Intentional Action, Affectivity and the Emotions, La philosophie médiévale, History of Medieval Philosophy, French Phenomenology, Later Medieval Philosophy, and Intentional object
Presentation given on 29th November 2019 on the occasion of the LYNX Winter School hosted by IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca and entitled Being on the Border. History and Theory of Cut in Humanities and Social Sciences, Lucca... more
Presentation given on 29th November 2019 on the occasion of the LYNX Winter School hosted by IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca and entitled Being on the Border. History and Theory of Cut in Humanities and Social Sciences, Lucca (LU), Italy, 26th-29th November 2019.
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Presentation given on 14th June 2019 on the occasion of the International Conference "Heidegger nel pensiero di Severino: Metafisica, Religione, Politica, Economia, Arte, Tecnica", Brescia, 13th-15th June 2019. Relazione presentata il 14... more
Presentation given on 14th June 2019 on the occasion of the International Conference "Heidegger nel pensiero di Severino: Metafisica, Religione, Politica, Economia, Arte, Tecnica", Brescia, 13th-15th June 2019.
Relazione presentata il 14 giugno 2019 al Congresso Internazionale "Heidegger nel pensiero di Severino: Metafisica, Religione, Politica, Economia, Arte, Tecnica", Brescia, 13-15 giugno 2019.
Relazione presentata il 14 giugno 2019 al Congresso Internazionale "Heidegger nel pensiero di Severino: Metafisica, Religione, Politica, Economia, Arte, Tecnica", Brescia, 13-15 giugno 2019.
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Presentation made on 2nd November 2018 on the occasion of the conference Engaging the Contemporary 2018: Reconfiguring the Aesthetic, University of Malta, Valletta Campus, 1st-2nd November 2018.
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Tesi di laurea magistrale in Scienze Filosofiche, Scuola di Lettere e Beni Culturali, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 21.03.2018.
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Tesi di laurea di primo livello in Filosofia, Scuola di Lettere e Beni Culturali, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 13.11.2015.
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Book review of “Mario Farina, Ontologia naturale e storia. La genesi della Dialettica Negativa di Adorno”, Napoli-Salerno, Orthotes, 2019”, «Dissonância: Revista de Teoria Crítica», vol. 6, Campinas, 2022, pp. 17-26
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Frankfurt School (Philosophy), Theodor Adorno, Adorno's Philosophy of Music, Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, and 10 moreFrankfurt School, Adorno, Benjamin and Bloch, Theodor W. Adorno, Critical theory and Frankfurt school - Marx, Aesthetics From Kant to Adorno, Aesthetic Theory From Kant to Adorno, Critical Theory/Frankfurt School, Adorno/Horkheimer, Adorno and Hegel, and Kritische Theorie (Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Kracauer, Bloch, Lukacs, u. a.)
META: RESEARCH IN HERMENEUTICS, PHENOMENOLOGY, AND PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY, Vol. XIII, nr. 1, pp. 263-271. Jun 15, 2021.