On Wednesday 15 December our live news returns AXIS mundi TV. Our guest this week will be Susanna Mati, with whom we will have the opportunity to dissect the essay of which she is the author "Nymph in the labyrinth: epiphanies of a divinity on the run", originally published in 2006 for Moretti & Vitali and just reprinted.
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NYMPH IN LABYRINTH: EPIPHANIES OF A RUNNING DIVINITY
THE NINFA. Its elusive character emerges in this book from an excursus in which philosophical moments and poetic places follow one another. The mysterious and showy figure of him is reflected in the narrative trend of the text. Invasive and manic, attracted to the bottom, extremely mobile and incurable, it is perhaps possible to find a 'philosophy' of this little semi-divinity thanks to the Platonic concepts of life and movement, attributed to the anima mundi. Crossing the expanse of her successive female incarnations (Kore, Clizia, Arianna ...), a lyrical voice will inevitably rise - sung by Porfirio, Nietzsche, Warburg, Montale ... - which will eventually lead to a glimpse of the dramatic reciprocity between Nymph and Labyrinth: between solitude of the soul and place of transit and loss. Always inclined to the cosmic descent, this creature is now going through an unquestionable material decay; but, as the emblem of the demonic nymph, she still manages to constitute herself as an inaudible, immanent music of the spheres: the song and the very motion of the world.
SUSANNA MATI
SUSANNA MATI, philosopher and writer, has taught Aesthetics for many years at the IUAV in Venice; she was also a teacher at the IRPA in Milan; you are part of the international research group โHypernietzscheโ (รcole Normale Supรฉrieure). She is the author of the volume Friedrich Nietzsche. Labyrinth attempt (Feltrinelli 2017). For Feltrinelli she is the editor of a re-edition of Nietzsche's works, of which the following volumes have been published so far: The birth of the tragedy (2015) Thus spoke Zarathustra (2017) The antichrist (2018) Poems (2109) beyond Good and Evil (2020). For the same publisher he edited F. Hรถlderlin, Selected poems (2010); Novalis, Hymns to the night (2012); Plato, Phaedrus (2013). You initially dealt with myth studies, publishing for Moretti & Vitali Nymph in labyrinth (2006); The golden apple. Myth and destiny (2009); Sex and the City: fable of the single woman (2011); Philosophy of sensitivity. For an aesthetic like mythological thought (2014) and, for the melangolo, Plato's decision. On the "condemnation of art" (2010). For Mimesis he wrote with F. Rella the research on Georges Bataille, philosopher (2007) and Nietzsche: art and truth (2008) and edited an edition by G. Bataille, Lascaux. The birth of art (2007). He also curated Novalis, Let the world be the kingdom of the poet (Pendragon 2005), The Muse by WF Otto (Fazi 2005), la History of eroticism by G. Bataille (Fazi 2006), The myths of Plato by K. Reinhardt (il melangolo 2015). Finally, for the Via del Vento editions, he edited about twenty volumes of rare or unpublished writings by great artists and writers of the twentieth century (Rilke, Proust, Kafka, Pessoa).
