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Being with oneself. We who never were in Ithaca, 1986, n. 4, pp. 11-16
The author attempts an analysis of the philosophical meaning of "appartenersi" (belonging to oneself), beginning with a philological examination of the term in Italian, Latin and Greek, where it meant being with oneself in/through the logos - the word.
Man's modern thought is fraught with the separation being/word (logos) and the nostalgia born of the loss of the original unity between being and word. Women on the contrary are constitutionally lost and separated in the word, they have no origin where to dream or regret themselves as a whole. But they can dream of a space before logos came into being, or of a mythical space inhabited by the word of the mother. They can also dream of a time when man's word is silent, suspended.
Belonging to herself, "appartenersi", for a woman cannot be mastering man word; on the contrary such a mastery uncovers her distance and separation from herself. The act of deciding to search for herself, wanting to find herself in/with herself, looking at herself and other women, is for a woman a turning point. Accepting her distance from man's word is both a condition for founding her own word, and already the realization of her word. The paradox of wanting to find oneself without ever having lost oneself becomes the "image of the future", when distance won't be experience but memory of a past time.
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CAVARERO Adriana - AGORNI Mirella, Gulliver's women, 1993, n. 17, pp. 33-39
In this section of the journal, a feminist scholar of some standing introduces a younger scholar: here the philosopher Adriana Cavarero presents an article on Jonathan Swift's conception of women by Mirella Agorni, a student of English literature with whom she has a reciprocally fruitful intellectual relationship.
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CAVARERO Adriana - BRAIDOTTI Rosi, Debate [The decline of the subject and
the rise of female subjectivity], 1993, n. 20, pp. 69-90
In April 1993 the cultural association "Il filo di Arianna" organised a seminar in Verona with two well known feminist philosophers, Braidotti and Cavarero. The debate published here focuses upon some questions central to their work: such as, the relationship between feminist thought and the contemporary philosophical discussion on the crisis of the subject, or the meaning of new technologies in the coming into being of a female subjectivity.
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Books reviewed by DWF
CAVARERO Adriana, Nonostante Platone, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1990
rev. by Paola Masi, 1991, n. 15, pp. 60-61