Le statue alzeranno la voce : filosofia dell'immagine e satira teologica nel Pasquillus Extaticus

I contributi editi in questo volume esplorano a vari livelli il contenuto di alcune opere comprese prevalentemente nel secondo tomo dei Pasquillorum tomi duo. Dopo il saggio introduttivo di Angelo Romano, una precisa ricognizione dei vari scritti che costituiscono il secondo tomo dei Pasquillorum, la raccolta prosegue con una invettiva antifarnesiana, falsamente attribuita a Bernardino Ochino e ora in modo egregio restituita a nuova luce da Marco Iacovella, procedendo inoltre con le efficaci ...

Il ‘tempo della bellezza’ e la legge della forza : l’epos omerico in Properzio

Through the opposition to Homer’s martial epic Propertius defines the ‘alternative’ identity of the elegy: while the former is a genre far in time, an abstract and futile representation of a fictitious world, elegy reflects the life of the poet-lover and his connected values. The polarity between the two genres and their respective worlds, however, progressively dissolves, and even in the Homeric epic Propertius traces the dominant presence of eros. Conversely, he sees in Homer’s Iliad, the ‘...

Progressive Soziale Bewegungen und europaeische Oeffentlichkeiten

Shrinking Spaces and Civil Society Contestation : An Introduction

In the context of both the financial crisis and the crisis of European migration politics, the notion of solidarity has gained renewed prominence and – as we argue in this book – its practice has become increasingly contentious. A series of intersecting crises have sharpened social and political polarization and have contracted simultaneously the space for migrant and minority rights as well as the rights around political dissent. This introduction builds upon social movement and migration st...