This article claims that the study of irregular migration may be a strategic research material for the development of an adequate understanding of contemporary society. The field, however, suffers not only from a lack of reliable empirical data, but also from endemic undertheorizing. The article shows how the attempt to develop an understanding of irregular migration from within a general theory of modern society has positive consequences both for the clarification of the problems and for the design of research programs (...) able to deal adequately with the phenomena. Particularly, it is argued that a theory of modern society centered on its form of differentiation may help to clarify both the political dimension of contemporary international mobility, the variety of irregular statuses existing in the foreign population of receiving countries, and the condition of inclusion and exclusion of irregular migrants. (shrink)

Porfirio constitutes an essencial tie in the transition of ancient thought into the Medieval. His writings (he takes in the Enneadas of Plotino and systematically comments the works of Plato and Aristotle), offer a unitary interpretation of both systems which have enormously influenced in the medieval philosophic tradition (Saint Augustine, Boecio, Thomas Aquinas, etc.), a tradition which may be presented as the different forms of Platonism aristotelized, or aristoteleanism platonized.

Este livro apresenta uma reconstrução histórica dessa extraordinária jornada filosófica, que começa com os ensinamentos do Buda Siddharta Gautama e é intrinsecamente marcada por eles. Com base em uma abordagem historiográfica original, o autor mostra como as teorias do Desperto contêm as sementes dos vários desenvolvimentos, bem como das marcadas divergências doutrinárias entre as várias linhas de pensamento, escolas e subescolas nas quais a filosofia budista se articula durante a sua permanência (quase bimilenar) no subcontinente indiano.

O caminho do meio entre “ser” e “não-ser” do filósofo budista Nāgārjuna (II d.C.) põe-se como um extraordinário desafio a qualquer metafísica afirmativa ou negativa. A presente obra avalia criticamente diferentes leituras, antigas e contemporâneas, do pensamento desse autor, e apresenta uma interpretação original de um dos seus aspectos mais cruciais: a doutrina das duas verdades.

raffaello caverni is a controversial figure among the scholars of galileo's work. almost entirely ignored for half a century, his research has been more attentively considered only after his major work was reprinted in 1970.