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7Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian PhilosophersState University of New York Press. 2017.Firsthand perspectives on the past, present, and future of contemporary Italian philosophy.
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7Between Nihilism and Politics: The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2010.Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy
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5Contemporary Italian women philosophers: stretching the art of thinking (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2021.Gathering the contributions of eleven contemporary Italian women thinkers who share a philosophical practice, Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers embraces a general interrelationality, fluidity, and overlapping of concepts for a border-crossing that affects what it means to be subjects that are embodied and participants in the life of their communities, thereby shaping a sense of belonging. Common threads are revealed through the exploration of radically diverse themes (the body, subjectivit…Read more
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5The Possible PresentState University of New York Press. 2011.A practical hermeneutics of time. The Possible Present unfolds from within a freely reinterpreted hermeneutic perspective and provides an original theoretical proposal on the topic of time. In dialogue especially with the philosophies of Husserl and Heidegger, but resorting also to suggestions coming from a theological background (Barth and Bonhoeffer), the work proposes a personal and original theory of time centered on a conception of the present that does not reduce temporality to a successio…Read more
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4The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (3): 605-605. 1994.Two waves mark the appropriation of Derrida in English: an earlier, literary and a later, philosophical reception. Both readings neglect the relation between deconstruction and ethics, leaving unanswered the question: "why bother with deconstruction?". Critchley's book, written in an elegant, concise, clear and yet--despite its scholarly rigor--pleasant style, admittedly locates itself at the origin of a third way of reception, "one in which ethical--not to mention political--questions are upper…Read more
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3IntroductionIn Silvia Benso & Antonio Calcagno (eds.), Open borders: encounters between Italian philosophy and continental thought, State University of New York Press. pp. 1-17. 2021.
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3Luigi Pareyson’s Ontology of FreedomIn Silvia Benso & Antonio Calcagno (eds.), Open borders: encounters between Italian philosophy and continental thought, State University of New York Press. pp. 21-43. 2021.
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2Ethics of Writing (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2009._First English translation of Sini’s important work on the influence of writing and the alphabet on Western rationality._
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1Earthly Morality and the OtherIn William Edelglass, James Hatley & Christian Diehm (eds.), Facing Nature: Levinas and Environmental Thought, Duquesne University Press. pp. 191-208. 2012.
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1Discusses the impact of the Holocaust on modern philosophy as a rupture. Analyzes the contribution of Christianity to antisemitism, as well as philosophical trends prior to the Holocaust, showing how the Jew was perceived as the incarnation of all that was negative and different, whose elimination became the only way the Western world could acquire an identity. also discusses Jewish theology after Auschwitz, and the question of God's presence and man's faith in the face of such tremendous traged…Read more
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The Other Ground: The Sense of the EarthIn Jason Wirth, Michael Schwartz & David Jones (eds.), On the True Sense of Art: A Critical Companion to the Transfigurements of John Sallis, Nothwestern University Press. pp. 54-116. 2016.
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On an Ethics of Things: Levinas and Heidegger RevisitedDissertation, The Pennsylvania State University. 1993.Traditional ethics has ignored the metaphysics of things, reduced the relation to things to a relation to objects in opposition to subjects, and consequently legitimized the subject's domination over the objects. My dissertation provides a metaphysical and ethical foundation for reappraising the value of things by both challenging and retrieving different aspects of Levinas's and Heidegger's philosophies. ;Levinas considers the Other as the authority capable of suspending the subject's tendency …Read more
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Lost in translation: Luigi Pareyson e gli studi pareysoniani in ambito anglosassoneAnnuario Filosofico 33 195-207. 2017.By exploring various semantic possibilities contained in the expression “lost in translation”, this essay addresses various difficulties entailed in the work of translation in general and as they apply to the translation into English of the works of Luigi Pareyson specifically. The essay also surveys the status of the Pareyson scholarship in the Anglophone world and suggests possible ways to foster a more congenial milieu for the appreciation of this important Italian philosopher whose thought i…Read more
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Krzysztof Ziarek, Inflected Language: Toward a Hermeneutic of Nearness―Heidegger, Levinas, Stevens, CelanPhilosophy in Review 15 (4): 301-302. 1995.
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Joy beyond Boredom : Totality and Infinity as a Work of WonderIn Scott Davidson & Diane Perpich (eds.), Totality and infinity at 50, Duquesne University Press. 2012.
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Playing with shadows in Heidegger's reading of Greek tragedy : encountering Oedipus, Antigone, and (absent) MedeaIn Andrew Benjamin (ed.), Heidegger and literary studies, Cambridge University Press. 2023.
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