First English translation of Sini’s important work on the influence of writing and the alphabet on Western rationality.
In this groundbreaking work, Carlo Sini, one of Italy’s leading contemporary philosophers, brings American pragmatism to the Milan school of phenomenology. Appearing in English for the first time, this book explores the constitutive role of alphabetic writing in the emergence of dominant forms of knowledge in the Western world (philosophy, mathematics, science, and historiography). Taking stock of the contingent nature of what are held as logical truths, he offers an ethical framework for considering different ways of thinking about writing, focusing on possibilities involving ‘practice’ as a basis for a renewal of theoretical philosophy. Such a framework, Sini argues, opens the door for more productive and ethical communication with non-Western cultures, and indeed for a reconsideration of forms of knowledge beyond mere writing.
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction by Silvia Benso
PART I. Logic and Writing: The Content of the Form
1. The Question
2. Writing
3. Archewriting
4. The Content of the Form PART II. The Tradition of Thought
5. The Tradition of Philosophy
6. The Task of Thinking Practices
7. The Ethics of Thinking
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Over de auteur
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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