Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author, editor, and translator of many books, including Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers; Aesthetics of the Virtual; and Thinking the Inexhaustible: Art, Interpretation, and Freedom in the Philosophy of Luigi Pareyson, all published by SUNY Press. Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King's University College at Western University, Canada. He is the author and editor of several books, including Roberto Esposito: Biopolitics and Philosophy (coedited with Inna Viriasova) and the translator of Lea Melandri's Love and Violence: The Vexatious Factors of Civilization, both also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsOpen Borders: IntroductionSilvia Benso and Antonio CalcagnoPart I: Being, Beings, Nothingness 1. Luigi Pareyson's Ontology of Freedom: Encounters with Martin Heidegger and F. W. J. SchellingSilvia Benso2. Emanuele Severino versus Western Nihilism (A Guide for the Perplexed)Alessandro Carrera3. Increase or Kenosis: Hermeneutic Ontology between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Gianni VattimoGaetano ChiurazziPart II: Temporality, Subjectivities, Performances 4. Lingering Gifts of Time: Ugo Perone, Edith Stein, and Martin Heidegger's Philosophical LegacyAntonio Calcagno5. Failing to Imagine the Lives of Others: Remo Bodei and Jean-Luc Nancy on Citizenship and Sancho PanzaAlexander U. Bertland6. A Political Gesture: The Performance of Carlo Sini and Michel FoucaultEnrico RedaelliPart III: Thinking, Estrangement, Ideologies 7. What Does It Mean to Think? Antonio Gramsci and Gilles DeleuzeRichard A. Lee Jr.8. Herbert Marcuse in ItalyMichael E. Gardiner9. Engaging Contemporary Ideology with Mario Perniola, Slavoj Žižek, and Robert PfallerErik M. VogtPart IV: Community, Apocalypse, the Political 10. Between the Inoperative and the Coming Community: Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben on the Task of OntologyMaría del Rosario Acosta López11. Who Can Hold the Apocalypse? Massimo Cacciari, Carl Schmitt, and the KatechonPietro Pirani12. Movements or Events? Antonio Negri versus Alain Badiou on PoliticsChristian LotzPart V: Voices of Difference 13. A Critique of the Forms of Political Action: Carla Lonzi and G. W. F. HegelMaria Luisa Boccia14. C'è Altro: Luisa Muraro on the Symbolic of Sexual Difference along and beyond Luce IrigarayElvira Roncalli15. Adriana Cavarero and Hannah Arendt: Singular Voices and Horrifying NarrativesPeg BirminghamPart VI: Topology, New Realism, Biopolitics 16. Topology at Play: Vincenzo Vitiello and the Word of PhilosophyGiulio Goria17. On the Question of the Face of Reality: Addressing the "Myths" of the New Realism and PostmodernityRita Šerpytyte18. Deconstruction or BiopoliticsRoberto EspositoContributorsIndex

Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author, editor, and translator of many books, including Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers; Aesthetics of the Virtual; and Thinking the Inexhaustible: Art, Interpretation, and Freedom in the Philosophy of Luigi Pareyson, all published by SUNY Press. Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King's University College at Western University, Canada. He is the author and editor of several books, including Roberto Esposito: Biopolitics and Philosophy (coedited with Inna Viriasova) and the translator of Lea Melandri's Love and Violence: The Vexatious Factors of Civilization, both also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsOpen Borders: IntroductionSilvia Benso and Antonio CalcagnoPart I: Being, Beings, Nothingness 1. Luigi Pareyson's Ontology of Freedom: Encounters with Martin Heidegger and F. W. J. SchellingSilvia Benso2. Emanuele Severino versus Western Nihilism (A Guide for the Perplexed)Alessandro Carrera3. Increase or Kenosis: Hermeneutic Ontology between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Gianni VattimoGaetano ChiurazziPart II: Temporality, Subjectivities, Performances 4. Lingering Gifts of Time: Ugo Perone, Edith Stein, and Martin Heidegger's Philosophical LegacyAntonio Calcagno5. Failing to Imagine the Lives of Others: Remo Bodei and Jean-Luc Nancy on Citizenship and Sancho PanzaAlexander U. Bertland6. A Political Gesture: The Performance of Carlo Sini and Michel FoucaultEnrico RedaelliPart III: Thinking, Estrangement, Ideologies 7. What Does It Mean to Think? Antonio Gramsci and Gilles DeleuzeRichard A. Lee Jr.8. Herbert Marcuse in ItalyMichael E. Gardiner9. Engaging Contemporary Ideology with Mario Perniola, Slavoj Žižek, and Robert PfallerErik M. VogtPart IV: Community, Apocalypse, the Political 10. Between the Inoperative and the Coming Community: Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben on the Task of OntologyMaría del Rosario Acosta López11. Who Can Hold the Apocalypse? Massimo Cacciari, Carl Schmitt, and the KatechonPietro Pirani12. Movements or Events? Antonio Negri versus Alain Badiou on PoliticsChristian LotzPart V: Voices of Difference 13. A Critique of the Forms of Political Action: Carla Lonzi and G. W. F. HegelMaria Luisa Boccia14. C'è Altro: Luisa Muraro on the Symbolic of Sexual Difference along and beyond Luce IrigarayElvira Roncalli15. Adriana Cavarero and Hannah Arendt: Singular Voices and Horrifying NarrativesPeg BirminghamPart VI: Topology, New Realism, Biopolitics 16. Topology at Play: Vincenzo Vitiello and the Word of PhilosophyGiulio Goria17. On the Question of the Face of Reality: Addressing the "Myths" of the New Realism and PostmodernityRita Šerpytyte18. Deconstruction or BiopoliticsRoberto EspositoContributorsIndex

Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author, editor, and translator of many books, including Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers; Aesthetics of the Virtual; and Thinking the Inexhaustible: Art, Interpretation, and Freedom in the Philosophy of Luigi Pareyson, all published by SUNY Press. Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King's University College at Western University, Canada. He is the author and editor of several books, including Roberto Esposito: Biopolitics and Philosophy (coedited with Inna Viriasova) and the translator of Lea Melandri's Love and Violence: The Vexatious Factors of Civilization, both also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsOpen Borders: IntroductionSilvia Benso and Antonio CalcagnoPart I: Being, Beings, Nothingness 1. Luigi Pareyson's Ontology of Freedom: Encounters with Martin Heidegger and F. W. J. SchellingSilvia Benso2. Emanuele Severino versus Western Nihilism (A Guide for the Perplexed)Alessandro Carrera3. Increase or Kenosis: Hermeneutic Ontology between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Gianni VattimoGaetano ChiurazziPart II: Temporality, Subjectivities, Performances 4. Lingering Gifts of Time: Ugo Perone, Edith Stein, and Martin Heidegger's Philosophical LegacyAntonio Calcagno5. Failing to Imagine the Lives of Others: Remo Bodei and Jean-Luc Nancy on Citizenship and Sancho PanzaAlexander U. Bertland6. A Political Gesture: The Performance of Carlo Sini and Michel FoucaultEnrico RedaelliPart III: Thinking, Estrangement, Ideologies 7. What Does It Mean to Think? Antonio Gramsci and Gilles DeleuzeRichard A. Lee Jr.8. Herbert Marcuse in ItalyMichael E. Gardiner9. Engaging Contemporary Ideology with Mario Perniola, Slavoj Žižek, and Robert PfallerErik M. VogtPart IV: Community, Apocalypse, the Political 10. Between the Inoperative and the Coming Community: Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben on the Task of OntologyMaría del Rosario Acosta López11. Who Can Hold the Apocalypse? Massimo Cacciari, Carl Schmitt, and the KatechonPietro Pirani12. Movements or Events? Antonio Negri versus Alain Badiou on PoliticsChristian LotzPart V: Voices of Difference 13. A Critique of the Forms of Political Action: Carla Lonzi and G. W. F. HegelMaria Luisa Boccia14. C'è Altro: Luisa Muraro on the Symbolic of Sexual Difference along and beyond Luce IrigarayElvira Roncalli15. Adriana Cavarero and Hannah Arendt: Singular Voices and Horrifying NarrativesPeg BirminghamPart VI: Topology, New Realism, Biopolitics 16. Topology at Play: Vincenzo Vitiello and the Word of PhilosophyGiulio Goria17. On the Question of the Face of Reality: Addressing the "Myths" of the New Realism and PostmodernityRita Šerpytyte18. Deconstruction or BiopoliticsRoberto EspositoContributorsIndex