Dancing with Sophia
(November 2019)
Integral Philosophy on the Verge Michael Schwartz - Editor Sean Esbjörn-Hargens - Editor Brian Schroeder - Foreword by Ken Wilber - Afterword
Explores the philosophical dimensions and implications of integral theory.
Dancing with Sophia is the first book of essays to focus on the philosophical dimensions and implications of integral theory. A metatheory that organizes first order theories and disciplines into higher order modes of knowing and insight needed to address the complexity of today’s world, integral theory has already impacted a wide range of d...(Read More)
Thinking the Inexhaustible
(September 2018)
Art, Interpretation, and Freedom in the Philosophy of Luigi Pareyson Silvia Benso - Editor Brian Schroeder - Editor Dennis J. Schmidt - Foreword by
Essays address the major themes of Pareyson’s hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.
What if the inexhaustible were the only mode of self-revelation of truth? The question of the inexhaustibility of truth, and its relation to being and interpretation, is the challenge posed by the philosophy of the prominent Italian thinker Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991). Art, the inter...(Read More)
Nihilism and Metaphysics
(May 2014)
The Third Voyage Vittorio Possenti - Author Daniel B. Gallagher - Translator Brian Schroeder - Foreword by
An assessment and reevaluation of nihilism’s ascendency over metaphysics.
Challenging the idea that nihilism has supplanted metaphysics, Vittorio Possenti finds in this philosophical turn the grounds for a mature renewal of metaphysics. Possenti takes the reader on a “third voyage” that goes beyond the “second voyage” indicated by Plato in the Phaedo. He traces the as...(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)
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)
Thinking through the Death of God
(October 2004)
A Critical Companion to Thomas J. J. Altizer Lissa McCullough - Editor Brian Schroeder - Editor
A critical exploration of the thought of radical theologian Thomas J. J. Altizer, including a response from Altizer and a comprehensive bibliography of his work.
The leading exponent of the "death of God" theology of the 1960s, Thomas J. J. Altizer created a media sensation at the time and defined a major new direction in philosophical theology. Altizer has continued to refine his thought throughout his care...(Read More)
