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Note e recensioni

Aisthesis, 2012
Volumi C. Vassallo, La dimensione estetica nel pensiero di Plotino. Proposte per una nuova lettura dei trattati Sul bello e Sul bello intelligibile [Silvia Ferretti] • G. Gurisatti, Costellazioni.
Autori Vari
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 271-297, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
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Carta à posteridade

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No ano de 2012, Arthur C. Danto escrevera uma carta de retrospectiva de sua vida na filosofia e na arte. Inicialmente, publicada no volume 81 do The American Scholar, e postumamente republicado em um livro dedicado ao seu pensamento e filosofia, em 2022,
Anderson Bogéa
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Revisiting Ontology to Reshape Transgenerational Justice

Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue 2, Page 402-410, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article develops a philosophical framework for understanding transgenerationality as a foundational concept for intergenerational justice. Drawing on social ontology and the philosophy of action, it introduces the notion of transgenerational civitas—a temporally extended community composed of past, present and future generations.
Tiziana Andina
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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 338-358, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
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Nietzsche and Schiller on Aesthetic Distance

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 562-576, June 2025.
Abstract A key contention of Nietzsche's philosophy is that art helps us affirm life. A common reading holds that it does so by paving over, concealing, or beautifying life's undesirable features. This interpretation is unsatisfactory for two main reasons: Nietzsche suggests that art should foreground what is ‘ugly’ about existence, and he sees ...
Timothy Stoll
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Our Statues of Wrongdoers

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 564-580, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Many of those memorialized around us in statues are wrongdoers, and so we are often called to consider whether we should take down those statues. Some of those statutes are memorialized for reasons now taken to be wrong; others are memorialized not for but rather despite their wrongdoing. How should we consider those latter cases? One tempting
Craig K. Agule
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“TESTIMONY STOPS WHERE HISTORY BEGINS”: UNDERSTANDING AND ETHICS IN RELATION TO HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL PASTS

History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 23-42, December 2024.
ABSTRACT This article explores the relation between testimony and history by considering the recent “ethical turn” toward experience and memory in historical research. By way of a brief history of the concept of testimony in historical research, the article pinpoints current discussions as being about historical understanding rather than factual ...
JONAS AHLSKOG
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY

History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 403-431, September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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Art, History, Representation, and Consciousness in Early Danto Philosophy

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Arthur C. Danto’s seminal work, Analytical Philosophy of History, was published in 1965 and aimed to defend historical knowledge against arguments that deemed it impossible because of the lack of direct experience of the past.
Stefano Ferrando
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