Ricerc@Sapienza

Sul significato di questo breve frammento che Walter Benjamin presentò all’amico Adorno nei tardi anni Trenta ma che l’amico Scholem classificò come un prodotto dei primi anni Venti, hanno riflettuto legioni di critici. Adorno gli diede il titolo redazionale di Frammento teologico-politico, perché in quelle scarse due pagine Benjamin rifletteva sulla relazione tesa e paradossale tra piano teologico e piano politico, tra avvento del Messia e felicità dell’uomo, tra felicità e nichilismo.

In Walter Benjamin. The Story of a Friendship (1975) Gershom Scholem recalls how he and Benjamin used to have intense discussions about politics and religion during and after the First World War which both spent in Switzerland. During a 1919 night-walk they talked about what they claimed to be ‘the most sensible response to politics’. Both agreed that it could be traced back to a notion of ‘theocratic anarchism’ − undoubtedly a highly ambiguous definition. The meaning of this paradoxical subsuming of anarchism, politics and theocracy doesn’t seem easy to grasp.

The issue of debt and how it effects our lives is becoming more and more urgent. The "Austerity" model has been the prevalent European economic policies of recent years led by the "German model". Elettra Stimilli draws upon contemporary philosophy, psychology and theology to argue that austerity is built on the idea that we somehow deserve to be punished and need to experience guilt in order to take full account of our economic sins.

Seconda edizione aggiornata del volume pubblicato nel 2004, questo lavoro offre una sintesi e un'interpretazione di uno degli esponenti più brillanti del pensiero ebraico tedesco del Novecento.

The focus of this text is not so much the revolution itself, but rather the possibility of reworking the effects of a revolution. More precisely, the problem at stake is if it is possible a revolutionary reworking of the counter-revolutionary effects of a revolution. In this sense, the aim of this contribution is to demonstrate the philosophical centrality of the point of view of an observer of the facts.

il saggio ricostruisce il rapporto personale e scientifico tra Jacob Taubes e Gershom Scholem. Il messianesimo è la questione al centro di questa complicata relazione, che in particolare coinvolge un'interpretazione di Paolo di Tarso e di Walter Benjamin.

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.