Ricerc@Sapienza

In the natural attitude, and in the ordinary language, religion is strictly bound to transcendence.
In this paper I ask whether the concept of “transcendence” is legitimate in the phenomenological
dimension, which is opened by the methodological operation of reduction
to the immanence of transcendental consciousness. By examining how “transcendence”
gains increasingly importance in Husserl’s thought, the necessity emerges to distinguish
three levels of it: intentional (or horizontal) transcendence, intersubjective transcendence

This article aims to reread the famous conference on Heidegger and Theology linking it with a still unpublished lecture on Being and Time Jonas held in 1967 at the New School for Social Research. From the reading of Heidegger’s masterwork, Jonas takes the idea of the ‘burdensome’ character of the existence, which he interprets in terms of a ‘polarity’ between man and its ‘other’ (other man, God, world). Such a polarity is for Jonas the very essence of ‘religion’ (as religamen) and of responsibility.

Notre époque est caractérisée par l'hégémonie du pouvoir économique, marquée par une rela-tion inédite entre les modalités d’existence des individus et la gestion économique planétaire. Les opé-rations économiques sont parvenues à un degré d’abstraction extrême et dépendent toujours plus étroi-tement de transactions financières qui semblent déterminer le cours mondial de manière autonome, indépendamment de l’économie réelle ou de l’existence des individus et des communautés.

Max Weber’s account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever-increasing consumption and debt as natural, almost essential, for maintaining the economic cycle of buying and selling.

Legal pluralism, as a way of thinking about law, is the seemingly straightforward idea that there is a range of normative orders, which are independent from the state and can be properly described as legal without committing any conceptual mistake. Without giving a full survey of the long and varied history of legal pluralism theory, this article will discuss some central moments in that history.

Overview on the Phoenician Tophet of Motya (TP, Sicily)

In the course of colonial rule, the Ho encountered crucial changes in various aspects of their lives: their former role in the power system, communal solidarity, control over territory and resources, and even, in some cases, their belief system. External influences thus naturally impacted Ho society and economy as well as their culture and religion.