Looking from within. On the concept of neuronal aesthetics

The essay discusses a new type of neuronal aesthetics in order to envisage a new phenomenology, which does not divide nature and culture into two fields, nor reduces one side to the other. On this ground it is possible to demonstrate that our concepts according to which we are interpreting mind functions are older than our ideas about brain tissue functionality. The main scientific objective is consequently to present a new ontogenesis of representation, imagination and perceptionThe essay discusses a new type of neuronal aesthetics in order to envisage a new phenomenology, which does not divide nature and culture into two fields, nor reduces one side to the other. On this ground it is possible to demonstrate that our concepts according to which we are interpreting mind functions are older than our ideas about brain tissue functionality. The main scientific objective is consequently to present a new ontogenesis of representation, imagination and perceptio

"Die Juden müssen ihre Sonderart aufgeben". Ernst Haeckel und der Antisemitismus

Die Autoren untersuchen die Stellung des Jenaer Biologen zum Antisemitismus in Deutschland. (DIPF/Orig.

Das Ich als Gegenwelt. Anmerkungen zur Dichtung Jean Pauls (con una Nota al testo di Federico Vercellone)

Jean Paul’s style of writing is both multifarious and self-reflexive in its being crowded with authorial critical comments and metaliterary digressions, which, according to this essay, aim at portraying a fragmented and complex subject who has by now lost any empathic and “romantic” connection with nature.  Starting from a survey of the cultural and philosophical background of Jean Paul’s formative years, this essay delves into the themes of the shattered idyll and the ambiguous relationship between the “I” and the “other” by analysing the main characters of two short narratives, Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterlein Maria Wutz in Auenthal and Leben des Quintus Fixlein.Jean Paul’s style of writing is both multifarious and self-reflexive in its being crowded with authorial critical comments and metaliterary digressions, which, according to this essay, aim at portraying a fragmented and complex subject who has by now lost any empathic and “romantic” connection with nature.  Starting from a survey of the cultural and philosophical background of Jean Paul’s formative years, this essay delves into the themes of the shattered idyll and the ambiguous relationship between the “I” and the “other” by analysing the main characters of two short narratives, Leben des vergnügten Schulmeisterlein Maria Wutz in Auenthal and Leben des Quintus Fixlein