Through conversations with twenty-three leading Italian philosophers representing a variety of scholarly concerns and methodologies, this volume offers an informal overview of the background, breadth, and distinctiveness of contemporary Italian philosophy as a tradition. The conversations begin with general questions addressing issues of provenance, domestic and foreign influences, and lineages. Next, each scholar discusses the main tenets, theoretical originality, and timeliness of their work. The interviews conclude with thoughts about what directions each philosopher sees the discipline heading in the future. Every conversation is a testimony to the differences that characterize each thinker as unique and that invigorate the Italian philosophical landscape as a whole. The individual replies differ widely in tone, focus, and style. What emerges is a broad, deep, lively, and even witty picture of the Italian philosophical landscape in the voices of its protagonists.
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Firsthand perspectives on the past, present, and future of contemporary Italian philosophy.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Italian Philosophy—Threshold between Cultures Part I. Ethics, Passions, Practices Logics of Delusion, Passions, and Time A Conversation with Remo Bodei Ethics, Bioethics, and Ethical Sentimentalism A Conversation with Eugenio Lecaldano Life, Suffering, Happiness, and Virtue A Conversation with Salvatore Natoli Truth, Figures of Truth, and Practices of Life A Conversation with Carlo Sini Metaphysics, Ethics, and Applied Ethics A Conversation with Carmelo Vigna Part II. History, Justice, Communities Sexual Difference, Relational Space, and Embodied Singularities A Conversation with Adriana Cavarero Ontology of Contingency, Power, and Historical Space-Time A Conversation with Giacomo Marramao Philosophy of Right, Historiography, and Individuality A Conversation with Fulvio Tessitore Interpretation, History, and Politics A Conversation with Gianni Vattimo Global Justice, Democracy, Uncertainty, and Incompleteness A Conversation with Salvatore Veca Part III. Imagination, Art, Technology Technology, Communication, and Aesthetics of the Sublime A Conversation with Mario Costa Freedom, Guilt, Nihilism, and Tragic Thought A Conversation with Sergio Givone Imagination, Rituality, and Transit A Conversation with Mario Perniola Part IV. Rationality, Sciences, Experience Mathematics, Sciences, Objectivity, and System Theory A Conversation with Evandro Agazzi Mathematics, Freedom, and Conflictual Democracy A Conversation with Giulio Giorello Science, Knowledge, Rationality, and Empirical Realism A Conversation with Paolo Parrini Part V. Being, Nothing, Temporality, Place Metaphysics, Experience, and Transcendence A Conversation with Enrico Berti The Absolute, Finite Beings, and Symbolic Language A Conversation with Virgilio Melchiorre Being, Memory, and the Present A Conversation with Ugo Perone Being, Becoming, and the Destiny of Truth A Conversation with Emanuele Severino Topology, Nothingness, and the Possible God A Conversation with Vincenzo Vitiello Part VI. Human Beings, Evil, Transcendence Religious Experience, Philosophy, and Theology A Conversation with Giovanni Ferretti Person, Evil, and Eschatology A Conversation with Giuseppe Riconda Select Bibliography Index
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9781438463797
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2017-04-15
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State University of New York Press
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227 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
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25 mm
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G, 01
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Engelsk
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Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author, editor, and translator of several books, including Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion (coedited with Brian Schroeder) and The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics, both also published by SUNY Press.