Truth and Interpretation
(August 2013)
Luigi Pareyson - Author Robert T. Valgenti - Translated and with an introduction by Silvia Benso - Revised and Edited by Gianni Vattimo - Foreword by
A resolute defense of philosophy and hermeneutics against the threats of dogmatism and relativism.
Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991) was one of the most important Italian philosophers to emerge after World War II and stands shoulder to shoulder with fellow hermeneutic thinkers Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. The product of a well-developed theory of interpretation that stretches back to the late 1940s, his 1971 ...(Read More)
Aesthetics of the Virtual
(December 2012)
Roberto Diodato - Author Justin L. Harmon - Translator Silvia Benso - Revised and Edited by John Protevi - Foreword by
Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies.
Arguing that the virtual body is something new—namely, an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the world—Roberto Diodato considers the implications of this kind of body for aesthetics. Virtual bodies insert themselves into the space opened up by the famous distinction in Ari...(Read More)
Weak Thought
(September 2012)
Gianni Vattimo - Editor Pier Aldo Rovatti - Editor Peter Carravetta - Translated and with an introduction by
Foundational collection on one of the most influential concepts to emerge from contemporary Italian philosophy.
Heralding the beginning of the philosophical dialogue on the concept for which Gianni Vattimo would become best known (and coining its name), this groundbreaking 1983 collection includes foundational essays by Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti, along with original contributions by nine other Italian philoso...(Read More)
The Possible Present
(October 2011)
Ugo Perone - Author Silvia Benso - Translator Brian Schroeder - Translator
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...(Read More)
Between Nihilism and Politics
(October 2010)
The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo Silvia Benso - Editor Brian Schroeder - Editor
Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy.
This is the first collection of essays in English that deals directly with the philosophy of Gianni Vattimo from a purely critical perspective, further establishing his rightful place in contemporary European philosophy. Vattimo, who first came to prominence as the translator of Gadamer’s Tr...(Read More)
An Unprecedented Deformation
(May 2010)
Marcel Proust and the Sensible Ideas Mauro Carbone - Author Niall Keane - Translator
Philosophical interpretation of Proust based on the work of Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.
French novelist Marcel Proust made famous “involuntary memory,” a peculiar kind of memory that works whether one is willing or not and that gives a transformed recollection of past experience. More than a century later, the Proustian notion of involuntary memory has not been fully explored nor its implications understo...(Read More)
Ethics of Writing
(October 2009)
Carlo Sini - Author Silvia Benso - Translator Brian Schroeder - Translator
First English translation of Sini’s important work on the influence of writing and the alphabet on Western rationality.
In this groundbreaking work, Carlo Sini, one of Italy’s leading contemporary philosophers, brings American pragmatism to the Milan school of phenomenology. Appearing in English for the first time, this book explores the constitutive role of alphabetic writing in the emergence of domina...(Read More)
Contemporary Italian Philosophy
(April 2007)
Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion Silvia Benso - Editor/translator Brian Schroeder - Editor
Leading Italian philosophers engage issues in ethics, politics, and religion.
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 are...(Read More)
