Tullio Viola (T.)

In 2026 I will be working on a NWO "Open Competitie XS" project titled "Folk Narratives and Social Critique: Recovering an Epistemological Paradigm at the Turn of the Twentieth Century".

This project contributes to current debates on the relationship between knowledge and social marginalization by examining how early twentieth-century American thinkers Jane Addams and W.E.B. Du Bois viewed folk narratives (such as myths, songs, and legends) from disenfranchised communities as tools for sense-making and social critique. Through an innovative combination of history of philosophy and the emerging field of the history of knowledge, the project shows how the work of Addams and Du Bois helped redefine what counts as knowledge beyond official or academic domains. In doing so, the project offers fresh insights into the epistemic value of vernacular culture.

• Viola, T. (2022). Courant de conscience et philosophie de la culture: Les Principles of Psychology lus par Ernst Cassirer. Revue Philosophique de la France et de La Etranger, 147, 509-524. https://doi.org/10.3917/rphi.224.0509

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• Viola, T. (2022). Artikulierte Vernunft und ihr schwer fassbarer Hintergrund: Bemerkungen über Josiah Royce’ späte Auseinandersetzung mit Peirce. In M. Schlette, B. Hollstein, M. Jung, & W. Knöbl (Eds.), Idealbildung, Sakralisierung, Religion: Beiträge zu Hans Joas' "Die Macht des Heiligen (pp. 331-349). Campus Verlag.

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• Viola, T. (2023). Memory, Folk Narratives, and Social Critique: Notes on Jane Addams and the “Devil Baby” Legend. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 17(2), 328-348. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341503

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• Viola, T. (2022). Routine/Gewohnheit. In M. Berek, K. Chmelar, O. Dimbath, H. Haag, M. Heinlein, N. Leonhard, V. Rauer, & G. Sebald (Eds.), Handbuch Sozialwissenschaftliche Gedächtnisforschung Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26593-9_24-1

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• Viola, T. (2024). Philosophy of Culture: Naturalistic or Transcendental? A Dialogue between Edgar Wind and Ernst Cassirer. In J. Anderson, B. Branca, & F. Tononi (Eds.), Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment (pp. 101-123). Peter Lang Publishing Group.

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