| Description |
xvii, 306 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy |
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SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Contemporary Italian philosophy: the confrontation between religious and secular thought / Maurizio Pagano -- PART 1. MARKING THE BORDERS: HISTORICAL LEGACIES. The desire for eternal life: the Platonic roots of Western political science and its ethical and theological consequences / Carlo Sini -- Philosophy, poetry, and dreaming / Sergio Givone -- Christianity and nihilism / Vincenzo Vitello -- Philosophy and Christian theology today: a hermeneutic circularity as fact and task / Giovanni Ferretti -- Ontology of actuality / Gianni Vattimo -- PART 2. CROSSING THE BORDERS: CURRENT THEMATIZATIONS. Metaphysics of thinking, metaphysics of being / Virgilio Melchiorre -- The truth of existence and the sacred (ethos anthropo daimon) / Maria Ruggenini -- Transcendental without illusion: or, the absence of the third person / Marco Maria Olivetti -- Finitude and responsibility: for an ethics of the finite in the time of risk / Salvatore Natoli -- Praise of modesty / Pier Aldo Rovatti -- PART 3. OPENING THE BORDERS: THE APPEAL OF THE WORLD. Logics of delusion / Remo Bodei -- Toward a symbolic of sexual difference / Luisa Muraro -- On virtue / Emanuele Severino -- Two concepts of utopia and the idea of global justice / Salvatore Veca -- The world and the West today: the problem of a global public sphere / Giacomo Marramao -- Names of place: border / Massimo Cacciari -- Selected bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Note |
Translated from the Italian. |
| Language |
Translated from the Italian. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Italian -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Benso, Silvia.
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Pushead.
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| ISBN |
0791471357 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780791471357 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0791471365 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780791471364 paperback alkaline paper |
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