Marxismo ed esistenzialismo: due filosofie dell’Europa


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Nel settembre del 1946, in un tempo sospeso e fluido in cui si tenta di istituire la pace mentre all’orizzonte si profila il rischio di un nuovo conflitto, si tengono in Svizzera Les rencontres internationales de Géneve, incentrate su una riflessione intorno allo spirito europeo. Protagonisti indiscussi degli Incontri sono Karl Jaspers e György Lukács, intenti a delineare nell’esistenzialismo e nel marxismo due vere e proprie filosofie dell’Europa. Mentre Jaspers intravede il futuro dell’Europa nella creazione di un nuovo ordine mondiale in cui il vecchio continente mantenga la neutralità, Lukács crede che si possa “vincere la pace come si è vinta la guerra” solo attraverso un’alleanza fra democrazia formale e reale. Si tratta dell’ultimo sforzo per pensare un’Europa unita o del primo atto della Guerra fredda intellettuale? Il volume presenta la traduzione italiana del quarto entretien incentrato su un confronto intorno al concetto di totalità, ed è corredato da articoli di giornale, resoconti, bilanci e lettere. Testi di: Jaspers, Lukács, Wahl, Merleau-Ponty, de Salis, Starobinski, Goldmann, Baldacci, Flora, Contini, Ackermann.










The Myth of the Other


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Rella came of age as a philosopher in Italy during the period of the "crisis of reason" or more generally the exhaustion of classical rationality in its authority to structure experience. For Rella, unlike many others, the tensions of the crisis are productive. In The Myth of the Other, he presents a unique perspective on four seminal French thinkers: Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, and Bataille. Moe's masterful translation brings this remarkable Italian thinker to American readers for the first time. This slim book mayvery well change the way American scholars think about the crisis of the other and the self coming our of French poststructuralism.







Saggi Filosofici


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Singer and His Critics


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This is the first book devoted to the work of Peter Singer, one of the leaders of the practical ethics movement, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.




Shipwreck With Spectator


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This elegant essay exemplifies Blumenberg's ideas about the ability of the historical study of metaphor to illuminate essential aspects of being human. Originally published in the same year as his monumental Work on Myth, Shipwreck with Spectator traces the evolution of the complex of metaphors related to the sea, to shipwreck, and to the role of the spectator in human culture from ancient Greece to modern times. The sea is one of humanity's oldest metaphors for life, and a sea journey, Blumenberg observes, has often stood for our journey through life. We all know the role that shipwrecks can play in this journey, and at some level we have all played witness to others' wrecks, standing in safety and knowing that there is nothing we can do to help, yet fixed comfortably or uncomfortably in our ambiguous role as spectator. Through Blumenberg's seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of letters, from ancient texts through nineteenth-century reminiscences and modern speeches, we see layer upon layer revealed in the meanings humans have given to these metaphors; and in this way we begin to understand what metaphors can do that more straightforward modes of expression cannot. This edition of Shipwreck with Spectator also includes "Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality", an essay that recounts the evolution of Blumenberg's ideas about metaphorology in the years following his early manifesto "Paradigms for a Metaphorology".




One World


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Written by a religious historian, this is an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well-known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.




History of Hermeneutics


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In the following three chapters, Ferraris examines the universalization of the domain of interpretation with Heidegger, the development of Heideggerian philosophical hermeneutics with Gadamer and Derrida, and the relation between hermeneutics and epistemology, on the one hand, and the human sciences, on the other.