Utopia is a privileged form of imagining the impossible and one of the central themes of Olaf Stapledon's literary and philosophical production. In Last and First Men he doesn't restrict himself to develop alternative socio-political models but he imagines a radical changing of the human nature, starting from its biological basis. The aim of the present work is to analyze the metaphorical use of biology emerging from the succession of different human species.Through the ‘close reading’ technique guided by Jameson's hermeneutic model of utopia, it will be showed how biological concepts and organic metaphors permeate crosswise the allegorical levels of body, time and collectivity. The focus will be on the theme of telepathy. As a symbolic dev...
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Paul Alsberg’s anthropology could support the reform of Husserlian phenomenology conducted by Carmin...
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A partire dal secolo XIX la produzione di diversi scrittori si orienta verso racconti di fantasia sc...
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Le recenti scoperte nell’ambito della psicologia evoluzionistica potrebbero offrire una risposta al ...
Nicola Vitale walks a side path to the smooth march of technocratic rationalism. A rationalism dried...
Bio-capitalism expresses an athropho-genetic model, i.e. of “the production of man through man”, whi...
This article investigates the conquests of the utopian and the current spaces of possibility. This m...
The famous utopia imagined by René Etiemble (Comparaison n'est pas raison, 1963: 29) is today even m...
Il contributo propone letture mirate di testi di Herbert G. Wells (The Time Machine, The Island of D...
In its extensive meaning, ‘biopoetics’ is a meta-discursive structure intent at signalling, in the H...
Il famoso formicaio E.O. Wilson è sempre stato uno dei miei eroi -- non solo un biologo eccezionale,...
I argue that Malthus’s Essay on Population is more a treatise in applied ethics than the first treat...
La teoria dell’Evoluzione biologica alla luce delle conoscenze acquisite dalla biologia molecolare, ...
The defeat of the twentieth century revolutionary movements leaves a gigantic void. The space of hop...
Paul Alsberg’s anthropology could support the reform of Husserlian phenomenology conducted by Carmin...
Partendo da una rilettura del mito dell’immortalità nel racconto omerico dedicato alla dea Eos e all...
A partire dal secolo XIX la produzione di diversi scrittori si orienta verso racconti di fantasia sc...
In Diderot’s philosophy, the nature of the eighteenth-century, Isis veiled, is constituted of the sa...
Le recenti scoperte nell’ambito della psicologia evoluzionistica potrebbero offrire una risposta al ...
Nicola Vitale walks a side path to the smooth march of technocratic rationalism. A rationalism dried...
Bio-capitalism expresses an athropho-genetic model, i.e. of “the production of man through man”, whi...