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  • Open Borders

    Encounters between Italian Philosophy and Continental Thought

    Edited by Silvia Benso, Antonio Calcagno ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.In order to create a greater dialogue between new and emerging Italian philosophy and established continental traditions of thought, Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno bring together the work of well-known figures in Italian philosophy such as ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Between Care and Justice

    The Passions as Social Resource

    by Elena Pulcini ...
    Translated by Silvia Benso, Antonio Calcagno ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.Elena Pulcini (1950–2021), an internationally renowned philosopher of care, was at the forefront of thinking and creating a new ethical framework to respond efficaciously to problems ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Rethinking Life

    Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times

    Edited by Silvia Benso ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    Fourteen Italian philosophers reflect on how the global experience of vulnerability and precariousness—of which the Covid-19 pandemic is but one example—compels us to rethink life and collective living.This volume gathers fourteen contributions written by Italian philosophers within the context of the precariousness and vulnerability revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic compels us to ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers

    Stretching the Art of Thinking

    Edited by Silvia Benso, Elvira Roncalli ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined.Gathering the contributions of eleven contemporary Italian women thinkers who share a philosophical practice, Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers embraces a general ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Viva Voce

    Conversations with Italian Philosophers

    by Silvia Benso ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    Firsthand perspectives on the past, present, and future of contemporary Italian philosophy.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 ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Truth and Interpretation

    by Luigi Pareyson, Silvia Benso ...
    Translated by Robert T. Valgenti ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    A resolute defense of philosophy and hermeneutics against the threats of dogmatism and relativism.Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991) was one of the most important Italian philosophers to emerge after World War II and stands shoulder to shoulder with fellow hermeneutic thinkers Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. The product of a well-developed theory of interpretation that stretches back to the late ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Aesthetics of the Virtual

    by Roberto Diodato, Silvia Benso ...
    Translated by Justin L. Harmon ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies.Arguing that the virtual body is something new-namely, an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the world-Roberto Diodato considers the implications of this kind of body for aesthetics. Virtual bodies insert themselves into the space opened up by the famous distinction in ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Thinking the Inexhaustible

    Art, Interpretation, and Freedom in the Philosophy of Luigi Pareyson

    Edited by Silvia Benso, Brian Schroeder ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    Essays address the major themes of Pareyson's hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.What if the inexhaustible were the only mode of self-revelation of truth? The question of the inexhaustibility of truth, and its relation to being and interpretation, is the challenge posed by the philosophy of the prominent Italian thinker Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991). ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Possible Present

    by Ugo Perone ...
    Translated by Silvia Benso, Brian Schroeder ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    A practical hermeneutics of time.The Possible Present unfolds from within a freely reinterpreted hermeneutic perspective and provides an original theoretical proposal on the topic of time. In dialogue especially with the philosophies of Husserl and Heidegger, but resorting also to suggestions coming from a theological background (Barth and Bonhoeffer), the work proposes a personal and original ... Read more

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  • Between Nihilism and Politics

    The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo

    Edited by Silvia Benso, Brian Schroeder ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo's unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy.This is the first collection of essays in English that deals directly with the philosophy of Gianni Vattimo from a purely critical perspective, further establishing his rightful place in contemporary European philosophy. Vattimo, who first came to prominence as the translator of Gadamer's Truth and ... Read more

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