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Achille C. Varzi, Claudio Calosi, Le tribolazioni del filosofare, Laterza, Roma - Bari, pp. 269
Vaselli, Stefano
2016
Abstract
With an ironical, exuberant and almost goliardic "divertissement" the authors of «Le Tribolazioni del Filosofare» announces to have «discovered, compiled, edited and commented» from an original text by an anonymous medieval poet (dressing their inventio retorica up with a sort of "comedy of art" style) this philosophical poem, originally written in dantesque tercets. So, Achille Varzi and Claudio Calosi's book is a magnificent and very pleasant - never simply caricatural -fresco of more than 2800 years of history of western philosophy, this latter interpreted as the poetical narration of a long gallery of characters - philosophers and their schools - with all their theoretical idiosyncrasies, aversions, intolerances and peculiarities. The "invention retorica" clearly refers to the more famous "orationes obliquae" or "meta-narration" of J. L. Borges, Umberto Eco, or to the Manuscript trouvé à Saragosse by J. Potocky, and the same title of the work refers to the dantean "Comedia". On the other hand, the famous dantean work doesn't represent only a literary pretext in poetical form, but it furnishes an ambitious and very wise attempt to reconstruct and to reenact the intimate interconnection between every single philosophical theory and each other in all its nature of aporia. So, Varzi and Calosi individuate in a sort of dantesque infernal punishment of any respective philosopher, punishment which is eternalizing in a a-temporal and unchangeable "state of affairs" (in the wittgensteinian sense of the syntagma), conveniently opposed and correlated each with the others, the rhetorical and narrative mechanism to describe the path and the route of the philosophical adventure of historicistic view of history of philosophy, with all its cyclical flashback and - not less infrequent or rhapsodic - flashforward.
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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Stefano Vaselli, "Achille C. Varzi e Claudio Calosi, Le tribolazioni del filosofare, Laterza, Roma - Bari, pp. 269", in "APhEx 14", 2016, pp. 26
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