Recognition scenes: Milton, Hegel, Camus

Abstract

Fiorinda Li Vigni

Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (IISF)

I.

The Disobedience

In Paradise lost John Milton outlines two different patterns of rebellion and disobedience, intended as attempts – destined for defeat – of a misleading self-affirmation in front of a Sovereign, at the same time God and Father. The recognition acquires thus a vertical and asymmetrical structure. With Satan, one of the great protagonists of the interior conflict that leads to evil, the rebellion makes use of a republican political lexicon; with Adam and Eve it focuses on the search for a reconciliation between divine will and free will.

II.

The Fight

On the background of Milton's work, Hegel appears to move away from the vertical dimension of the political theology: subjectivity is not the starting point, but the result of the progressive acquisition of a spiritual and universal nature, through the horizontal encounter/clash between self-consciousnesses, in the figures of love, struggle and experience of “the doing of each and all”.

Rosario Diana

Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISPF-CNR)

I.

The Archetypes

Paradise lost by John Milton

This text is the first stage of the trilogy of readings Scene del riconoscimento: Milton, Hegel, Camus. In this work – freely inspired by Paradise Lost by John Milton – Satan and Eve suffer because Father-God doesn’t recognize their aspirations.

II.

Branches from Hegel

From the Autobiografia di un servo

This text is the second stage of the trilogy of readings Scene del riconoscimento: Milton, Hegel, Camus. In this work – freely inspired by the theme of recognition in Hegelian philosophy – an imaginary servant tells the story of his renunciations and indicates in the struggle for recognition a method for the social claim.

Rosalba Quindici

Hochschule der Künste Bern

I.

The Archetypes

Paradise lost by John Milton

musical score

The musical score of the opera-reading The Archetypes “Paradise Lost” by John Milton is published here. Music is the result of an in-depth timbre research of the composer about the nature of percussion, but also of her specific investigation into the text of the opera-reading to obtain a full adhesion of sound to the word.

 II.

Branches from Hegel

From the Autobiografia di un servo

musical score

The musical score of the reading Branches from Hegel. From the “Autobiografia di un servo” is published here. Music is the result of an in-depth timbre research of the composer  about the nature of the piano and its possible preparations, but also of her specific investigation into the text of the opera-reading to obtain e full adhesion of the sound to the word.

Nera Prota

Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli

Designing as a Flight of Ideas

In many creative operations the final result is not the visible and legible sum of the elements that inspired it, on the contrary, they are no longer traceable in the object we observe, they are lost and only with a careful rereading of the design path is possible to bring than back to surface and tell them. In this essay the Author reconstructs and documents the process of elaborating the scenography for the trilogy of readings about the recognition.