Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion

by Benso, Silvia

• ISBN13: 9780791471364
• ISBN10: 0791471365
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PRESS

Summary

Italian philosophy provides a long-overdue and much-needed supplement to continental thinking. This book offers some living and lively examples, some for the first time in English, of original thought from the Italian philosophical scene. The contributors-seventeen leading Italian philosophers-offer perspectives from many areas, particularly ethics, politics, and religion. Contemporary Italian Philosophy includes a primarily historical introduction and is composed of three parts, corresponding with the unfolding of past, present, and futural thinking. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction: Contemporary Italian Philosophy: The Confrontation between Religious and Secular Thought	p. 1
Marking the Borders: Historical Legacies	p. 15
The Desire for Eternal Life: The Platonic Roots of Western Political Science and Its Ethical and Theological Consequences	p. 21
Philosophy, Poetry, and Dreaming	p. 33
Christianity and Nihilism	p. 47
Philosophy and Christian Theology Today: A Hermeneutic Circularity as Fact and Task	p. 69
Ontology of Actuality	p. 89
Crossing the Borders: Current Thematizations	p. 109
Metaphysics of Thinking, Metaphysics of Being	p. 113
The Truth of Existence and the Sacred (ethos anthropo daimon)	p. 127
Transcendental without Illusion: Or, The Absence of the Third Person	p. 149
Finitude and Responsibility: For an Ethics of the Finite in the Time of Risk	p. 161
Praise of Modesty	p. 173
Opening the Borders: The Appeal of the World	p. 193
Logics of Delusion	p. 199
Toward a Symbolic of Sexual Difference	p. 211
On Virtue	p. 227
Two Concepts of Utopia and the Idea of Global Justice	p. 245
The World and the West Today: The Problem of a Global Public Sphere	p. 259
Names of Place: Border	p. 277
Selected Bibliography	p. 285
Contributors	p. 289
Index	p. 299
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