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.
11 Ebooks by Silvia Benso
Brian Schroeder & Silvia Benso: Between Nihilism and Politics
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 Vat …
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Luigi Pareyson: Truth and Interpretation
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 …
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Silvia Benso & Antonio Calcagno: Open Borders
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 …
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Carlo Sini: Ethics of Writing
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 ph …
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Roberto Diodato: Aesthetics of the Virtual
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 …
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Silvia Benso: Viva Voce
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 co …
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Brian Schroeder & Silvia Benso: Thinking the Inexhaustible
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 tr …
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Ugo Perone: The Possible Present
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 dialog …
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Silvia Benso & Elvira Roncalli: Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers
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 st …
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Silvia Benso: Rethinking Life
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 livi …
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Elena Pulcini: Between Care and Justice
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 enviro …
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