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    Hegel, Logic and Speculation (edited book)
    with Alessandro De Cesaris, Maurizio Pagano, and Hager Weslati
    Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
    This book offers new critical perspectives on the relationship between the notions of speculation, logic and reality in Hegel's thought as basis for his philosophical account of nature, history, spirit and human experience. The systematic functions of logic and pure thought are explored in their concrete forms and processual progression from subjective spirit to philosophy of right, society, the notion of habit, the idea of work, art, religion and science. Engaging the relation between the Logic…Read more
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    Christ as symbol in Kant¿s religion -- Hegel's conception of God -- The reality of religion in Hegel's idealist metaphysics -- Hegel's version of the ontological argument for the existence of God -- The trinity and the I -- The death of God and recognition of the self -- Beyond subjectivism -- The relevance of Hegel's philosophy of religion today.
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    The relationship of philosophy to religion today (edited book)
    Cambridge Scholars Press. 2011.
    The Relationship of Philosophy to Religion Today is a collection of texts authored by philosophers with an interest in contemporary philosophy of religion, its merits and its limitations. The collection has been stimulated by such questions as: "What ought philosophy of religion be?" and "How ought philosophy relate to religion today?" In pursuing such questions, the editors have asked the contributors to offer their insights and reflections on issues that they see as important to contemporary p…Read more
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    Metaphilosophical Reflections on Theism and Atheism in the Current Debate
    In Philip Andrew Quadrio & Carrol Besseling (eds.), Politics and Religion in the New Century: Philosophical Reflections, Sydney University Press. pp. 354-381. 2009.
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    Interpreting the World Is Transforming the World
    with Gianni Vattimo
    Journal of Continental Philosophy 1 (1): 77-84. 2020.
    Vattimo argues that the core of Gadamer’s hermeneutics resides in the identification of interpreting with changing the world, and analyzes the ontological turn in hermeneutics in light of such identification. Vattimo advocates for a radical reading of Gadamer’s claim “Being, which can be understood, is language” and maintains that hermeneutics requires a profound revolution in ontology, overcoming the idea of Being as a given object “out there”. In light of the dialogue that Gadamer’s Truth and …Read more
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    _An examination of the philosophical notion of sacrifice from Kant to Nietzsche._
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    Interpretation, Religion, Politics: A Conversation
    with Gianni Vattimo
    Journal of Continental Philosophy 2 (2): 333-347. 2021.
    In this 2017 conversation, Gianni Vattimo discusses with Paolo Diego Bubbio the core themes of his own philosophical journey. Vattimo first comments on the legacy of his mentor Luigi Pareyson and on the differences between Pareyson’s conception of the relation between truth and interpretation and his own. Vattimo and Bubbio then elaborate on the return to Hegel and the possibility of a “hermeneuticized” Hegelianism. The participants also discuss Vattimo’s view of religion and the role that the C…Read more
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    Mimetic theory and film (edited book)
    with Chris Fleming
    Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
    The interdisciplinary French-American thinker René Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the humanities in the last half-century. The title of René Girard's first book offered his own thesis in summary form: romantic lie and novelistic truth [mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque]. And yet, for a thinker whose career began by an engagement with literature, it came as a shock to some that, in La Conversion de l'art, Girard asserted that the novel may be an “outmoded” form …Read more
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    Male e redenzione: sofferenza e trascendenza in René Girard (edited book)
    with Silvio Morigi
    Edizioni camilliane. 2008.
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    Intellectual sacrifice and other mimetic paradoxes
    Michigan State University Press. 2018.
    Intellectual sacrifice -- Intellectual expulsion -- Historical forms of mystification -- The path of demystification -- Conclusion -- A brief letter from René Girard -- Other mimetic paradoxes -- Interlude: corrections and paradoxes -- Girard's ontological argument for the existence of God -- Mimetic theory's post-Kantian legacy -- Mimetic theory and hermeneutic Communism -- The self in crisis -- Hermeneutic mimetic theory.
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    The role of experience in Hegel's conception of the relation to nature
    Southern Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.
    This article explores Hegel's conception of experience, positing it as the entry point for grasping the implications of the philosophy of nature. The article briefly examines Hegel's view of nature, focusing on its transformative journey from externality to integration with the conscious I. Subsequently, the purpose of Hegel's philosophy of nature is discussed, and recent interpretations are compared. The article unfolds the notion of experience as a bridge between the subjective dimension explo…Read more
  • A sacrificial crisis not far away: Star wars as a genuinely modern mythology
    In Paolo Diego Bubbio & Chris Fleming (eds.), Mimetic theory and film, Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
  • Literary Aesthetics and Knowledge in René Girard’s Mimetic Theory
    Literature and Aesthetics 17 (1): 35-50. 2007.
    René Girard’s mimetic theory has significantly influenced the fields of comparative literature and cultural studies, as well as sociological anthropology and philosophy. Nevertheless, I argue that a somewhat different line of interpretation, an interdisciplinary one, has not been sufficiently investigated. This involves an interpretation which focuses on the vicissitudes of the mimetic and “victimage” circle not (or not only) in sociological terms, but by analysing their articulation on the lev…Read more
  • 1 6 AZ Glossary
    In Felicity Joseph, Jack Reynolds & Ashley Woodward (eds.), Continuum Companion to Existentialism, Continuum. 2011.