The "Upside-Down World". Sketch of a Political-Phenomenological Theory of the Escape

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https://doi.org/10.13135/2704-8195/9227

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structures of escaping, phenomenology, spatial theory, political philosophy

Abstract

The discourse on escaping is primarily directed towards the who of escape. The question of how of escaping in its philosophical significance is normally neglected. For this purpose, it is necessary to rethink escape as a triple articulated phenomenological topology based on three vectors: escape as a start, as a transition and as a destination / refuge. By examining its political and spatial-philosophical characteristics (escape as a separation, as a non-place and as a fugue) as well its topological dimensions (earth as exile, see and desert, earth as asylum), escape emerges as a dynamic phenomenon that is due to reshape essential concepts and inverse traditional categories of politics. 

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Giovanni Tidona, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Giovanni Tidona, born in Scicli (1982). 2013 Ph.D. in Practical Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz. Professor of Philosophy at the universities of Mainz, Heidelberg, Koblenz. Senior Fellow at the ZIS – Center for Intercultural Studies of the University of Mainz. Author of numerous publications on themes and issues in Phenomenology, Social Ontology and History of Philosophy. His current research interests focus on the Philosophy of the Other and the Stranger and the Philosophy of Nature in the mythical-philosophical thought. Main publications: Das Fremde. Ein Wegweiser durch die Xenologie (Königshausen & Neumann 2024); Internatura (Mimesis 2023); Gemeinschaften. Figuren der Lebensteiligkeit (Alber 2019); Fremdheit (Mattes 2018); Ding und Begegnung (Alber 2014). He is editor of the italian translation of the correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Karl Löwith (Carteggio 1919-1973, ETS Edizioni 2017).

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2023-12-28

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Tidona, G. (2023). The "Upside-Down World". Sketch of a Political-Phenomenological Theory of the Escape. Filosofia, (68), 285–300. https://doi.org/10.13135/2704-8195/9227

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No. 68 (2023): War and Peace

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