Abstract

Simona Forti, Tonino Griffero and Davide Sparti discuss Barbara Carnevali's "Le apparenze sociali" ("Social Appearances"). Forti emphasizes the socio-political relevance of the book, based on a rehabilitation of self-images, as unavoidable structures in any encounter with the other. Griffero retraces Carnevali's philosophical premises, which move from a claim to aesthetics as a doctrine of sensibility. Sparti discusses the fundamental role of a phenomenology of appearance and argues for the universality of techniques which build up one's own intersubjective presence.