Contemporary Italian Philosophy

Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at Siena College. She is the author of The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics, also published by SUNY Press. Brian Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Religious Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is coeditor (with Lissa McCullough) of Thinking through the Death of God: A Critical Companion to Thomas J. J. Altizer, also published by SUNY Press. Together they are coauthors of Pensare Ambientalista. Tra filosofia e ecologia.

"Benso and Schroeder's book is indispensable and a cause for celebration. There have lamentably been no collections that allow us entry into the Italian philosophical environment. This collection, in a way never done before in the English language, displays the majesty of the Italian philosophical scene. These philosophers are not epigones, but original and provocative thinkers. Contemporary Italian Philosophy single-handedly transforms one's sense of the continental philosophical terrain." — Jason M. Wirth, author of The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Contemporary Italian Philosophy: The Confrontation between Religious and Secular Thought Maurizio PaganoPart 1. Marking the Borders: Historical Legacies 1. The Desire for Eternal Life: The Platonic Roots of Western Political Science and Its Ethical and Theological ConsequencesCarlo Sini2. Philosophy, Poetry, and DreamingSergio Givone3. Christianity and NihilismVincenzo Vitiello4. Philosophy and Christian Theology Today: A Hermeneutic Circularity as Fact and TaskGiovanni Ferretti5.  Ontology of ActualityGianni VattimoPart 2. Crossing the Borders: Current Thematizations 6.  Metaphysics of Thinking, Metaphysics of BeingVirgilio Melchiorre7. The Truth of Existence and the Sacred (ethos anthropo daimon)Mario Ruggenini8. Transcendental without Illusion: Or, The Absence of the Third PersonMarco Maria Olivetti9. Finitude and Responsibility: For an Ethics of the Finite in the Time of RiskSalvatore Natoli10. Praise of ModestyPier Aldo RovattiPart 3. Opening the Borders: The Appeal of the World 11. Logics of DelusionRemo Bodei12. Toward a Symbolic of Sexual DifferenceLuisa Muraro13. On VirtueEmanuele Severino14. Two Concepts of Utopia and the Idea of Global JusticeSalvatore Veca15. The World and the West Today: The Problem of a Global Public SphereGiacomo Marramao16. Names of Place: BorderMassimo CacciariSelected BibliographyAbout the EditorsContributorsIndex