https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/joglar/activity/ Activity feed for Sabrina Ferri. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:32:29 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6f71588c0e4142fdd910ebd178c63f2f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1674513/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 04:26:58 +0000 This essay places Giacomo Leopardi’s ideas on the relationship between nature and culture in dialogue with Michel Serres’s reflection on the bond between the natural world and humanity as discussed in The Natural Contract. It argues that, in Serresian terms, the social contract for Leopardi coincides initially with a destabilizing break from nat…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb024583bf683a87555e2a524c0f6ab7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1668843/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:57:00 +0000 Giambattista Vico’s answer to the constraints of extreme enlightened rationalism lies in the epistemological method of “explication,” or "spiegazione," as he calls it in the New Science. Explication connects “inventively” the different logoi of human eras enabling us to understand the past comprehensively, but it also extends a bridge between t…[Read more]

]]> 0 fbeace6f3a6cd8b90a3abe6dd65803bd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1668842/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:43:01 +0000 In this essay, I read Pietro Verri’s "Discorso sull’indole del piacere e del dolore" (1781) in the context of eighteenth-century theories of the mind and by placing it in dialogue with Verri’s accounts of his experiences in his autobiographical writings and letters. I aim to demonstrate how Verri, working within Enlightenment epistemological categ…[Read more]

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