Silvia Benso (Rochester Institute of Technology): Publications

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Rochester Institute of Technology
Department of Philosophy

Professor

Pennsylvania State University

Department of Philosophy

PhD

Homepage

Henrietta, New York, United States of America

Areas of Interest

Continental Philosophy

European Philosophy

History of Western Philosophy

Feminist Philosophy

Joy beyond Boredom : Totality and Infinity as a Work of Wonder
In Scott Davidson & Diane Perpich (eds.), Totality and infinity at 50, Duquesne University Press. 2012.

Mereology
126

From veritas to caritas, or how nihilism yields to democracy: Gianni Vattimo, Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, & Law. Ed. Santiago Zabala. Trans. William McCuaig. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 197 pp + xxiii
Human Studies 29 (4): 503-508. 2006.

Democracy
79

Ethics of Writing
State University of New York Press. 2009.

In this groundbreaking work, Carlo Sini, one of Italy's leading contemporary philosophers, brings American pragmatism to the Milan school of phenomenology.

Ethics 20th Century Philosophy
82

François Raffoul, The Origins of Responsibility, Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2010. 360 pp., ISBN: 978–0-2532–2173-5 (review)
Derrida Today 7 (2): 236-244. 2014.

Jacques Derrida
70

Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion (edited book)
with Brian Schroeder

State University of New York Press. 2007.

Leading Italian philosophers engage issues in ethics, politics, and religion.
104

Aesth-ethics
Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (1): 163-183. 2008.

Levinas’s most important contribution to contemporary philosophy is his continual vindication of the primacy of the ethical. For the contemporary reader, educated in the shadow of the Nietzschean thought that existence as will to power is art, this claim comes as an uneasy surprise. What is the place of the aesthetic within the preeminence of the ethical in Levinas’s philosophy? Or, more specifically, what is, for Levinas, the place of art in relation to the ethical? Through a Levinasian reading…Read more
Levinas’s most important contribution to contemporary philosophy is his continual vindication of the primacy of the ethical. For the contemporary reader, educated in the shadow of the Nietzschean thought that existence as will to power is art, this claim comes as an uneasy surprise. What is the place of the aesthetic within the preeminence of the ethical in Levinas’s philosophy? Or, more specifically, what is, for Levinas, the place of art in relation to the ethical? Through a Levinasian reading of Plato, and a Platonic reading of Levinas, the paper argues in favor of Paul Celan’s statement that there is not “any basic difference... between a handshake and a poem.”
155

A Politics of Witnessing: History, Memory, and the Third—Beyond Levinas
Studies in Practical Philosophy 3 (2): 5-12. 2003.

Emmanuel Levinas Social and Cultural Memory
20

Between Nihilism and Politics: The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo (edited book)
with Brian Schroeder

State University of New York Press. 2010.

Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy.

20th Century Philosophy

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Silvia Benso

Joy beyond Boredom : Totality and Infinity as a Work of Wonder
In Scott Davidson & Diane Perpich (eds.), Totality and infinity at 50, Duquesne University Press. 2012.

From veritas to caritas, or how nihilism yields to democracy: Gianni Vattimo, Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, & Law. Ed. Santiago Zabala. Trans. William McCuaig. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 197 pp + xxiii
Human Studies 29 (4): 503-508. 2006.

Ethics of Writing
State University of New York Press. 2009.

François Raffoul, The Origins of Responsibility, Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2010. 360 pp., ISBN: 978–0-2532–2173-5 (review)
Derrida Today 7 (2): 236-244. 2014.

Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion (edited book)
with Brian Schroeder

State University of New York Press. 2007.

Aesth-ethics
Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (1): 163-183. 2008.

A Politics of Witnessing: History, Memory, and the Third—Beyond Levinas
Studies in Practical Philosophy 3 (2): 5-12. 2003.

Between Nihilism and Politics: The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo (edited book)
with Brian Schroeder

State University of New York Press. 2010.

Silvia Benso

Joy beyond Boredom : Totality and Infinity as a Work of Wonder In Scott Davidson & Diane Perpich (eds.), Totality and infinity at 50, Duquesne University Press. 2012.

From veritas to caritas, or how nihilism yields to democracy: Gianni Vattimo, Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, & Law. Ed. Santiago Zabala. Trans. William McCuaig. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 197 pp + xxiii Human Studies 29 (4): 503-508. 2006.

Ethics of Writing State University of New York Press. 2009.

François Raffoul, The Origins of Responsibility, Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2010. 360 pp., ISBN: 978–0-2532–2173-5 (review) Derrida Today 7 (2): 236-244. 2014.

Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion (edited book) with Brian Schroeder State University of New York Press. 2007.

Aesth-ethics Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (1): 163-183. 2008.

A Politics of Witnessing: History, Memory, and the Third—Beyond Levinas Studies in Practical Philosophy 3 (2): 5-12. 2003.

Between Nihilism and Politics: The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo (edited book) with Brian Schroeder State University of New York Press. 2010.

Joy beyond Boredom : Totality and Infinity as a Work of Wonder
In Scott Davidson & Diane Perpich (eds.), Totality and infinity at 50, Duquesne University Press. 2012.

From veritas to caritas, or how nihilism yields to democracy: Gianni Vattimo, Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, & Law. Ed. Santiago Zabala. Trans. William McCuaig. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 197 pp + xxiii
Human Studies 29 (4): 503-508. 2006.

Ethics of Writing
State University of New York Press. 2009.

François Raffoul, The Origins of Responsibility, Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2010. 360 pp., ISBN: 978–0-2532–2173-5 (review)
Derrida Today 7 (2): 236-244. 2014.

Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion (edited book)
with Brian Schroeder

State University of New York Press. 2007.

Aesth-ethics
Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (1): 163-183. 2008.

A Politics of Witnessing: History, Memory, and the Third—Beyond Levinas
Studies in Practical Philosophy 3 (2): 5-12. 2003.

Between Nihilism and Politics: The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo (edited book)
with Brian Schroeder

State University of New York Press. 2010.