Il linguaggio come strumento di pace: voci femminili tra filosofia e semiotica

This work seeks to revisit and actualize the contribution of several major twentiethcentury women philosophers who devoted particular attention to the role of language within their reflections on peace. Based on the premise that war also arises from dehumanizing narratives, whereas peace requires authentic speech, silence, attentiveness, care, and beauty, language is here understood as possessing a performative and relational function: it does not merely describe reality, but transforms it, creating common spaces in which plurality can be expressed without annihilation. The aim is to explore new possible pathways and points of convergence for semiotic research on peace, identifying language as a privileged space of resistance and transformation. These philosophers for peace addressed not only armed conflict, but also its deep cultural roots - power as imposition, the separation between body and reason, the devaluation of care, the marginalization of otherness - and proposed an ethics of responsibility, shared vulnerability, and relationship. Returning to their texts does not mean engaging in a merely philological exercise; rather, it entails activating an interpretative framework capable of illuminating the contradictions of the present and deconstructing the logics of domination, violence, and oppression that still permeate international relations, social dynamics, and collective narratives.