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There is a widespread belief that philology is a scholarly discipline, useful for the past and only marginally for the present.
This volume argues the opposite thesis, namely, that philology is a natural discipline for all men who want to account for themselves and reality, who want, therefore, to practice the intelligence of things.
Centuries of tradition have placed the discipline in the reanimation wards of history, that is, in the places where the past is dissected, classified, rearranged, only sometimes understood, but nevertheless placed in a reassuring catalog.
The spaces, on the other hand, of the questions and challenges of the present would be forbidden or inaccessible to her. In this framework of standardized immobilism, the social utility of philology, not only as a place for the apprenticeship of the critical spirit, but also as a tool for answering questions of meaning, origin, and freedom, is felt as heresy or as a useless and misguided petition of principle.
This book ventures into the present; searching for and finding in medieval love poetry one of the roots of the European conception of freedom, all the more relevant today, the more we realize the importance of an anthropology of the person rather than of the individual gender; demonstrating what philology is capable of doing by scrutinizing the 'evil papers,' that is, the documentation of heinous crimes of great social and political relevance (the Moro case, the Mafia, etc. ); addressing, and not avoiding, the dramatic theme of truth, with its corollary of the relationship between those who investigate and defend it, on the one hand, and power on the other.
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- Philology
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics
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DOI: 10.13125/unicapress.978-88-3312-148-2Editions