Silvia Benso 
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Conversations with Italian Philosophers

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.

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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

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Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author, editor, and translator of several books, including
Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion (coedited with Brian Schroeder) and
The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics, both also published by SUNY Press.