Digital Icons: Memes, Martyrs and Avatars di Yasmin Ibrahim è un libro pubblicato nel 2020 per Taylor & Francis Ltd nella collana Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture. In appena centocinquanta pagine il libro propone un’articolata disamina del concetto di “iconico” e di come la sua declinazione all’interno dell’ambiente digitale abbia innescato una trasformazione […]

In this paper a controversy is reconstructed, which is based on an essay of Fabian Freyenhagen, Was ist orthodoxe Kritische Theorie? (2017). He proceeds from Horkheimers’ essay Traditionelle und Kritische Theorie (1937a/1988).  By distancing himself from Habermas and his request for a “program stating reasons” he pleads at the same time for a specific research

In this essay I aim to make a brief examination of some of the considerations made by Max Scheler in a short paper – entitled The Exclusion of Philosophy in Max Weber. On the psychology and sociology of nominal thinking (1921-1923) – in which Scheler sketches the portrait of a Weber “almost nihilistic”, centered on