Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary Italian philosophy : crossing the borders of ethics, politics, and religion / edited by Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder ; translated from the Italian by Silvia Benso.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Benso, Silvia.
• Schroeder, Brian.

Description

xvii, 306 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy

Uniform Title

SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy.

Subject

Philosophy, Italian > 20th century

Note

• Translated from the Italian.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-287) and index.

Contents

Introduction : contemporary Italian philosophy : the confrontation between religious and secular thought / Maurizio Pagano -- Pt. 1. Marking the borders : historical legacies -- 1. The desire for eternal life : the Platonic roots of Western political science and its ethical and theological consequences / Carlo Sini -- 2. Philosophy, poetry, and dreaming / Sergio Givone -- 3. Christianity and nihilism / Vincenzo Vitiello -- 4. Philosophy and Christian theology today : a hermeneutic circularity as fact and task / Giovanni Ferretti -- 5. Ontology of actuality / Gianni Vattimo -- Pt. 2. Crossing the borders : current thematizations -- 6. Metaphysics of thinking, metaphysics of being / Virgilio Melchiorre -- 7. The truth of existence and the sacred (ethos anthropo daimon) / Mario Ruggenini -- 8. Transcendental without illusion : or, the absence of the third person / Marco Maria Olivetti -- 9. Finitude and responsibility : for an ethics of the finite in the time of risk / Salvatore Natoli -- 10. Praise of modesty / Pier Aldo Rovatti -- Pt. 3. Opening the borders : the appeal of the world -- 11. Logics of delusion / Remo Bodei -- 12. Toward a symbolic of sexual difference / Luisa Muraro -- 13. On virtue / Emanuele Severino -- 14. Two concepts of utopia and the idea of global justice / Salvatore Veca -- 15. The world and the West today : the problem of a global public sphere / Giacomo Marramao -- 16. Names of place : border / Massimo Cacciari.

ISBN

• 0791471357 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780791471357 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0791471365 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780791471364 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006024605

OCLC

• OCM70823145
• SCSB-5333255

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries