Azimuth 21/2022 | Philosophy and the Present. Critical Thinking at the Crossroads of Technology, Aesthetics and Politics, and The History Of Culture

Edited by C. Basili, F. Buongiorno, M. Carassai, S. Guidi, A. Lucci, I. Pelgreffi, L. Pisano, A. Romele

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ISSN (paper): 2282-4863
ISBN (paper): 978-88-5529-408-9
ISBN (e-book): 978-88-5529-465-2

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From its founding in 2013 to the present, Azimuth has played a role in mapping contemporary philosophical debate on a variety of topics, revolving around three key thematic areas: philosophy of technology, aesthetics & pol­itics, and the history of ideas and cultures. The overall research and editorial intent have been to investigate the way in which philosophical reflection in­tersected and confronted with those other forms of knowledge that, in each of these areas, are decisive for a critical understanding of phenomena. Ten years after the beginning of the publication, the critical landscape that Azimuth has drawn can be weighed and evaluated in relation to the present and the way philos­ophy continues to articulate itself in the thematic and institutional confron­tation with other forms of knowledge. What did the progressive hybridization with disciplines whose method­ologies are often radically different from the philosophical one mean for philosophy in the last ten years? Which methodological transformations have become necessary? With respect to which specific problems within the in­dicated macro-areas is the philosophical contribution recognized as pivotal by scholars of other disciplines? What does it mean to “do philosophy”, to “practice philosophy” in a historical and cultural horizon of growing com­plexity and interconnection like the present one?

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Azimuth 20/2022 | Immersivity. Philosophical Perspectives on Technologically Mediated Experience

Edited by Jacopo Bodini, Alessandro De Cesaris

ISSN (paper): 2282-4863
ISBN (paper): 978-88-5529-346-4
ISBN (e-book): 978-88-5529-347-1
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The notion of ‘immersivity’ is a pivotal element in the description of tech­nologically mediated experience, designating an inherent quality of objects, spaces and more generally situations able to produce an impression of im­mersion. Different from the notion of ‘immersion’ itself – which describes «a process of reception» focusing on sensations and feelings of the subject of experience – «immersivity designates a process of production» (Freitag et alii, 2020). The issue pays a special attention to the conditions of possibility, both material and immaterial, of immersive experiences: tech­nologies, environments, materials, practices, but also theoretical, ideological and political frames. At the same time, it aims at exploring some theoreti­cal questions that are still open in the debate on immersive experience, in the digital environments as well as in other contexts. In order to do so, different and complementary philosophical approaches to the question of immersivity are combined, coming from multiple philosophical disciplines, such as: aesthetics, material and critical historicism coupled with a genealogical approach, philosophical anthropology, phenomenology and post-phenomenology, cognitive science (4E cognition), and deconstructionism.

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Azimuth 19/2022 | Darwin’s Tangled Legacy. Evolutionary Perspectives in Contemporary Thought

Edited by Andrea Parravicini, Andra Meneganzin, Chiara Pertile
ISSN (paper): 2282-4863
ISBN (paper): 978-88-5529-286-3
ISBN (e-book): 978-88-5529-284-9

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The present issue discusses the uses, opportunities and misuses of the recent evolutionary research program when approaching key issues in contemporary philosophical thought. One aim of the current issue is to illustrate past and current avenues of productive dialogue between biology – evolutionary biology, in particular – and philosophy. Further, the issue investigates what the evolutionary conceptual and empirical repertoire can teach us about life and human nature conundrums and which interpretative paths, previously left unexplored by classic philosophical approaches, arise from such perspective. Never as in contemporary philosophical debates, the Darwinian perspective emerged as a vital tool or, in John Dewey’s words, as “the greatest dissolvent in contemporary thought of old questions, the greatest precipitant of new methods, new intentions, new problems”.

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