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Ovi Symposium Part II: 5 December 2013 - 5 June 2014 On the Nature of Art within Modernity & the Envisioning of a New Humanism Participants: Dr Alessandra Abis, Dr Maria Buccolo, Dr Lawrence Nannery, Dr Ernesto Paolozzi, Dr Emanuel Paparella, Mr Edwin Rywalt and Dr Michael Vena Ovi Symposium II 1 An Ovi Magazine Books Publication C 2017 Ovi Project Publication - All material is copyright of the Ovi magazine & the writer Ovi books are available in Ovi magazine pages and they are for free. If somebody tries to sell you an Ovi book please contact us immediately. For details, contact: [email protected] No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the writer or the above publisher of this book. 2 Ovi Symposium II Ovi Symposium: On the Nature of Art within Modernity and the Envisioning of a New Humanism Thirteen Bi-weekly Sessions: Part II: 5 December 2013 - 5 June 2014 Ovi Symposium II 3 An Ovi Magazine Books Publication C 2017 Ovi Project Publication - All material is copyright of the Ovi magazine & the writer Ovi books are available in Ovi magazine pages and they are for free. If somebody tries to sell you an Ovi book please contact us immediately. For details, contact: [email protected] No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the writer or the above publisher of this book. 4 Ovi Symposium II Ovi Symposium: On the Nature of Art within Modernity and the Envisioning of a New Humanism Participants: Dr Alessandra Abis, Dr Maria Buccolo, Dr Lawrence Nannery, Dr Ernesto Paolozzi, Dr Emanuel Paparella, Mr Edwin Rywalt and Dr Michael Vena Ovi Symposium II 5 6 Ovi Symposium II Ovi Symposium: On the Nature of Art within Modernity and the Envisioning of a New Humanism Thirteen Bi-weekly Sessions: 5 December 2013 - 5 June 2014 Overall View of the Table of Content Introduction by the Symposium’s Coordinator Emanuel L. Paparella……… p. 9 Meeting Fourteen.......................................................................................... p. 19 Meeting Fifteen............................................................................................. p. 39 Meeting Sixteen………………………………………………........................... p. 60 Meeting Seventeen....………………………………………............................. p. 105 Meeting Eighteen……………………………………........................................ p. 150 Meeting Nineteen …………………………..................................................... p. 186 Meeting Twentyeth……………………………………...................................... p. 214 Meeting Twenty-first.……………………......................................................... p. 239 Meeting Twenty-second..…………………….................................................. p. 282 Meeting Twenty-third....………………………………………………................. p. 318 Meeting Twenty-fourth...…………………………............................................. p. 334 Meeting Twenty-fifth……………………........................................................... p. 346 Meeting Twenth-sixth…………………............................................................. p. 359 Meeting Twenty-seventh................................................................................. p. 373 Ovi Symposium II 7 8 Ovi Symposium II Introduction for Volume 2 by the Symposium’s Coordinator Emanuel L. Paparella The Ovi Symposium has now been in existence for a total of three years and six months. The first six months (June to December 2013) were published as Volume 1 of the e-book by the same title of Ovi Symposium. The next six months, volume 2, covering 13 bi-monthly meetings (from 5 December 2013 to 5 June 2014) now see the light of day and are in your hands. At the risk of turning this introduction into an exercise in self-congratulations within a mutual admiration society (I’d rather leave that judgment to the readership) I’d like to sincerely thank Thanos Kalamidas, the editor in chief of the magazine, for his constant encouragement for this intellectual enterprise named Ovi Symposium, and for his labor of love in editing and publishing this volume 2 of its e-book. I would also like to thank my friends and colleagues who directly contributed to the various presentations and in- terventions in the above mentioned time-span. They are in alphabetical order by last name: Dr. Alessandra Abis, Dr. Maria Buccolo, Dr. Lawrence Nannery, Dr. Ernesto Paolozzi, Dr. Emanuel Paparella, Mr. Edwin Rywalt, Dr. Michael Vena. Without their invaluable cooperation and suggestions, the project would not have continued to flourish as a collegial universal international conversation. It made my role as coordinator so much more pleasur- able and worthwhile. Some two years after the appearance of volume 1, perhaps it’s time to reassess the success of our efforts and renew a vision of our dialogic journey. In the first place we’d like to stress once again that our initial impetus was the idea of a convivial friendly dialogue (a symposium, as the ancient Greeks called it) on important relevant ideas of our times in the context of Vico’s and Croce’s aesthetics which in effect is also modern aesthetics. From that gener- al theme would then flow other sub-themes presented and discussed on a by-monthly and then later on a monthly basis. The head logos, so to speak, of the Symposium remains “A Philosophical Conversation on the Nature of Art within Modernity and the Envisioning of a new Humanism.” As the reader will surely observe, we have remained faithful to that initial vision not only in its content but even in its form. The project is ongoing and we continue to improve and perfect it. Our dialogue has remained colloquial, convivial, informative, always respectful of others’ opinions and of free speech, reverential toward truth and reason, relevant to our times, devoid of excessive academic jargon so as to remain comprehensible throughout. Thus, as our editor in chief informs us, it has managed to appeal to the vast majority of the Ovi readership; those who are not specialized scholars in the fields we touch upon. We hope it has also become an ongoing dialogue or conver- sation which, come to think of it, could be the very definition of philosophy: a conversation throughout the ages. Undoubtedly we have a vision to share and a story to tell, the story of Humanism; but, as Plato observed, no story can be told if no one is listening. We are not sleeping on our laurels either. Greater, more ambitious intellectual horizons and goals lie ahead. The envisioning of greater visions and goals is also in the Greek and Renaissance tradition of the Symposium carried on in the Greek agora, the Roman forum, the court of Urbino in the Renaissance. We, with our readers, look for- ward to the publication of the next volumes and the continuation of our intellectual enterprise offered pro bono for intangible reward such as the Good, the True, the Beautiful. Therefore our motto remains ad majorem. Emanuel L. Paparella Ph.D. February 2017 Ovi Symposium II 9 List of all the Scholars who have contributed and participated in the Sympoium in its First Year (in alphabetical order) Alessandra Abis is a graduate of the Department of Foreign and Clas- sical Languages and Literatures at the University of Bari. She, with her husband Arcangelo, founded the Adriani Teatro in 1992 in Italy. She has performed in Greek-Latin plays, among others: “Voyage in the Greek World” (Andromaca), “Miles Gloriosus” (Plauto), “The Last Temptation of Socrates (from Plato’s Ione Minor). Also from the Commedia dell’Arte: “Harlequin Doctor Flyer,” and “Without Makeup” (Chechov), “Four Portraits of Mothers,” Lady Madness (Erasmus’ In Praise of Folly). Maria Buccolo teaches theater at the University of Roma Tre in Rome, Italy. She is a graduate of the University of Bari and has participated in various projects aiming at establishing cultural bridges among nations and people, one of which is the Project for the Integration of Immigrants via the theater “Leonardo da Vinci Transfert Multilaterale dell’Innovazi- one” with the participation of four EU nations: France, Italy. Belgium and Rοmania). Lawrence Nannery has studied at Boston College, Columbia University and at The New School for Social Research where he obtained his Ph.D. He founded The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal and authored The Esoteric Composition of Kafka’s Corpus. Devising Nihilistic Literature, 2 vols. Mellen Press. 10 Ovi Symposium II Ernesto Paolozzi teaches history of contemporary philosophy at the Uni- versity Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples. A Croce scholar and an expert on historicism, he has written widely and published several books, espe- cially on aesthetics and liberalism vis a vis science. His book Benedetto Croce: The Philosophy of History and the Duty of Freedom was printed as an e-book in Ovi magazine in June 2013. Emanuel Paparella has a Ph.D. in Italian Humanism with a dissertation on Giambattista Vico from Yale University. He currently teaches philosophy at Barry University and Broward College in Florida, USA. One of his books is titled Hermeneutics in the Philosophy of G. Vico, Mellen Press. His latest e-book Aesthetic Theories of Great Western Philosophers was printed in Ovi magazine in June 2013. Edwin Rywalt is a computer specialist living in Pennsylvania