The topic of this essay is the work of the reflection. After having focused on the «rift» between reflection and its working in Valéry’s thought, Vitiello focuses on the process which Hegel described in The Phenomenology of Spirit, namely the process of the experience of the consciousness, which elevates itself to the consciousness of the experience. The conclusion is strongly critical: Hegel misses the aim at the very point in which he achieves it. Indeed, in the absolute knowledge, in the (...) complete and perfect view of itself, of the light which sees the light, the experience of the consciousness itself fails, its becoming, its «imperfection» fail. The critique of Hegel, passing through Nietzsche, expands to a critique of language, in particular of the language of «being» and of «is», and of the Heideggerian tautologies, such as «das Ereignis ereignet», «das Ding dingt», «die Welt weltet». An important passage of the text concerns the theatrical language, in which the word seems to regain the original bond between voice and gesture, which remains divided nevertheless, because the medium itself which connects them – i.e., the «color» of the word – is «outside» the word and «outside» the gesture. Only the word of the act, of the pragmata, remains. In such a word, doing exhibits its most appropriate modality, namely the immediacy of being-affected: the cry of pain; or the reflexive mediacy of the moral imperative: Handle! The two opposite «colours» of the things. (shrink)

L'Ora e l'attimo narra--attraverso il confronto di Vico con Platone e Kant, Hegel e Nietzsche, Gadamer e, infine, Benjamin - la storia discontinua di un passaggio epocale nella concezione del mondo storico: il passaggio dal primato dell'orizzonte universale eterno, l''Ora', in cui si inquadrano le diverse età della storia, al primato dell'attimo, in cui sono parimenti possibili sia l'inizio di una 'nuova Ora' che la fine della storia dell'uomo ad opera dell'uomo. In Vico questo 'passaggio,' variamente contrastato e sofferto, ma (...) alla fine vincente, assume la figura del transito dalla 'mathesis universalis' della storia alla visione morale del mondo umano--Back cover. (shrink)

Lo ʻreligiosoʼ como doble relación: vertical con Dios, horizontal con el mundo. La crisis del mundo antiguo causada por el venir a menos de la primera relación: los dioses no se ocupan del mundo humano (Epicuro). El mundo ʻsalvadoʼ por el Dios de amor de la buena nueva cristiana. Sólo un Dios omnipotente puede ʻsalvarʼ(guardar) el mundo; pero la omnipotencia, ni siquiera delimitable por el amor, no es garantía de salvación más de cuanto no sea peligro de abanadono. El mundo (...) moderno busca en el sujeto el fundamento absoluto de sí (Descartes). Pero el sujeto, en cuanto fundamento absoluto, es como el Dios omnipotente, no es un ente, definible, sino una pura X (Kant). Kénosis del logos y nihilismo: el misterio horizonte último de la religión cristiana. Ninguna petición de garantía: ser en el mundo, no del mundo. (shrink)