di Flavia Monceri

Abstract: the idea that «fascism» should be considered kind of a «product of the past», which might emerge never again, seems to be not completely convincing, if that does not mean simply that it cannot emerge again in exactly the same form. As a matter of fact, if we indicate with the term «fascism» a model of political order characterized by specific assumptions, it can emerge in any time and place, in the presence of the contextual conditions allowing people to select and recombine again those assumptions in a different, and yet recognizable, way. In this article I consider two works by Ignazio Silone, Il fascismo (1934) and La scuola dei dittatori (1938), specifically devoted to fascism and dictator(ship) and their presuppositions, at the aim to show their relevance for rethinking «fascism» in current times.

Keywords: Ignazio Silone – fascism – dictatorship and dictators – (crisis of) democracy and fascism

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di Sante De Santis

Abstract: the work aims to relate Severino’s interpretative model of techno-science essence, consisting in the will of the apparatus to expand itself to infinity, whose roots are to be traced back to ancient Greek thought, to those who considers that the essence of techno-science is to be found in the calculating thought that emerged strongly during the modern scientific revolution. We will highlight, as well as emphasizing the points of contact, the repercussions of these two models on the lifeworld and on politics, and in particular on democracy. The latter, however one wants to interpret the essence of techno-science, seems destined to a radical crisis that not even the information revolution, considered salvific by some, may solve.

Keywords: Technoscience – Calculating Thought – Democracy – Lifeworld – Informatics

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