Carlo Sini 
Ethics of Writing [PDF ebook] 

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.

Содержание

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

Об авторе

Carlo Sini is Professor of Philosophy at Milan State University and the author of many books, including
Images of Truth: From Sign to Symbol.
Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author of
The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics and translator and coeditor (with Brian Schroeder) of
Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion, both also published by SUNY Press.
Brian Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the coeditor (with Lissa Mc Cullough) of
Thinking through the Death of God: A Critical Companion to Thomas J. J. Altizer, also published by SUNY Press.