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 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.
Tabella dei contenuti
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
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Index
Circa l’autore
Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author and editor of many books, including coeditor (with Elvira Roncalli) of Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers: Stretching the Art of Thinking, also published by SUNY Press.
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