Pier Giuseppe Monateri

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Is the "American sublime" different from the "European sublime"?

We all know that Burke revitalised the aesthetic of the sublime, having a strong impact on European romanticism. In his works Harold Bloom refers many times to an "American sublime", especially...

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Do you think that the Waste Land may have a deeper Theological Political meaning more than a mere existential one ?

TS Eliot's The Waste Land is ending in the form of an Upanishad: Shantih Shantih Shantih. The Upanishad are not only a religious book, but also a legal code. So the final formula could concern the...

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Has anyone thought about an ontology of the state of exception ?

I mean: in a state of exception all legal categories collapse, and at the end of day the same act can deserve a medal or be deemed high treason. In this way it represents, according to me, a pure...

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