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Abyssal Thought: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Eternal Return

Published on: June 7 2020 Last updated on: 10 September 2020 Written by: Mariachiara Valentini Categorized into: Philosophy, Characters

Through the revelation of doctrines such as the eternal return, the death of God and the transvaluation of values, Nietzsche undertakes to show us how only by understanding history as something alive and which constitutes us insofar as we are already always inserted in a historical world, we can have before us a future that is a Future, therefore a future herald of History and not of mere random events.

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The Iranian rite of Ashura, between religion and politics

Published on: January 10 2020 Last updated on: December 2 2020 Written by: Gabriel Grieco Categorized into: Anthropology, Islam, Photo reportage, History of Religions

During the ashura ceremony, the Shiites mythically refer to the exemplary self-sacrifice of the third Imam Husayn by inserting him in the cosmological context of the cosmic war, of Madzeist derivation, among the principles of good against evil; then a continuous union between the political and religious spheres, the boundaries between the two are becoming more and more confused, and the religious dimension justifies the political sentiment, while the local sentiment leads to a global drama.

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