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Table Of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contemporary Italian Philosophy: The Confrontation between Religious and Secular Thought
Maurizio Pagano
Part 1. Marking the Borders: Historical Legacies
1. The Desire for Eternal Life: The Platonic Roots of Western Political Science and Its Ethical and Theological Consequences
Carlo Sini
2. Philosophy, Poetry, and Dreaming
Sergio Givone
3. Christianity and Nihilism
Vincenzo Vitiello
4. Philosophy and Christian Theology Today: A Hermeneutic Circularity as Fact and Task
Giovanni Ferretti
5. Ontology of Actuality
Gianni Vattimo
Part 2. Crossing the Borders: Current Thematizations
6. Metaphysics of Thinking, Metaphysics of Being
Virgilio Melchiorre
7. The Truth of Existence and the Sacred (ethos anthropo daimon)
Mario Ruggenini
8. Transcendental without Illusion: Or, The Absence of the Third Person
Marco Maria Olivetti
9. Finitude and Responsibility: For an Ethics of the Finite in the Time of Risk
Salvatore Natoli
10. Praise of Modesty
Pier Aldo Rovatti
Part 3. Opening the Borders: The Appeal of the World
11. Logics of Delusion
Remo Bodei
12. Toward a Symbolic of Sexual Difference
Luisa Muraro
13. On Virtue
Emanuele Severino
14. Two Concepts of Utopia and the Idea of Global Justice
Salvatore Veca
15. The World and the West Today: The Problem of a Global Public Sphere
Giacomo Marramao
16. Names of Place: Border
Massimo Cacciari
Selected Bibliography
About the Editors
Contributors
Index
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