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Humanities, Volume 14, Issue 6

June 2025 - 23 articles

Cover Story: This article explores how the dominant format of academic philosophical writing—the journal article—has narrowed the stylistic range of philosophical expression. Rather than a mere esthetic concern, this stylistic homogenization risks impeding the development of thought itself. By engaging with different forms of critique and drawing on Plato’s dialogues as a case study, the paper shows how style shapes the philosophical sense of truth, not just its content. The paper also includes a thought experiment inspired by media theory, suggesting that Plato, today, might have composed video-dialogues rather than written ones to better convey his philosophical message. In response to the current mono-stylism, the paper invites us to rethink the ethics of philosophical research and explore alternative, more diverse practices of writing and inquiry. View this paper

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Beatrice, Laura, and the Others: The Fin de Siècle Debate on Female Inspirers and the Popularising Turn of Giovanni Federzoni and Eugenia Codronchi (Sfinge)

Arianna De Gasperis

Humanities2025, 14(6), 114;https://doi.org/10.3390/h14060114

27 May 2025

Between the late-nineteenth and the early-twentieth centuries, Beatrice and Laura, as literary characters and beloved women of Dante and Petrarch, were at the centre of a vigorous scholarly debate, which gained traction in Romagna’s literary ci...

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Zenchiku’s Mekari: Staging Ambiguous and Hollow Worlds

Daryl Jamieson

Humanities2025, 14(6), 113;https://doi.org/10.3390/h14060113

26 May 2025

Konparu Zenchiku (1405–c. 1470) was the son-in-law of Zeami Motokiyo. Zeami is the most famous nō actor–writer–composer–showman–impressario, but Zenchiku brought nō back from the shōgun’s court to th...

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Fictional Characters as Story-Free Denoting Concepts

Francesco Orilia

Humanities2025, 14(6), 112;https://doi.org/10.3390/h14060112

22 May 2025

Some realist views about fiction are non-objectual in that they see fictional characters not as objects but rather as properties or the like; notably, kinds, roles, or denoting concepts. The view centered on denoting concepts proposed in Orilia&rsquo...

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