La regola di Archimede

The essay rereads Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “Archimedean point” as a metaphor for the Western desire to ground a universal principle of domination and control over the world. This point proves to be an artifice that conceals its own arbitrary origin, producing a linear geometry of knowledge that is intrinsically phallogocentric. Through a critique of Hegel and a dialogue with feminist theories of sexual difference, the text deconstructs the patriarchal symbolic order and its neutralization of the feminine. Negativity is rethought not as lack, but as a generative force of thought and of new symbolic orders. The figure of Medea emerges as a paradigm of the subversion of androcentric order and metaphysical linearity. The volume thus proposes a rereading of the maternal and the feminine from antiquity to the present, oriented toward a symbolic and political transformation of gender inequalities.