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This is a practical hermeneutics of time.

Table of Contents:
Introduction by Silvia Benso Preface 1. Dramaturgy of Thought Warning for the Non-Philosopher The Ice Sheet Time under the Microscope Finite Time Present and Presence 2. The Present as Threshold The Present Is Not Presence, but Divide, Condition of Temporality The Features of the Threshold Spatiality of the Threshold: Outside/Inside Temporality of the Threshold: Past/Future After Modernity: The Rediscovery of the Present Complexity and Consistency of the Present 3. Ethics of the Present Education as Accumulation of Present The Present of the Institution For an Ethics of the Present Beyond Virtues: The Reasons of Tenderness 4. Tale without Author The Tale of Philosophy Tales and Distensio Temporis Tale without Author The Ontological Proof: Existence That Has Always Already Been There 5. The Tale of the I The Tale of the I The I as a Me The Vicissitudes of the I The Coordinates of the I's Journey 6. The Tale of Finitude The Tale of Finitude Finite Existence Infinite Existence Praise of Lingering 7. The Great Tale of Time The Tale as Diction of the Present The Beyond as the Already-Been, that is: Naivete in Front of Us Before the End and After the Beginning: Philosophy Praise of Philosophy 8. Hermeneutics of the Positive Almost a Conclusion Positivity of Philosophy Praise of Dangerous Meditation Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Ugo Perone is Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universita Del Piemonte Orientale in Vercelli, Italy. He is the author of several books, including The Truth of Feeling and Despite the Subject. Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics; translator and coeditor (with Brian Schroeder) of Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion; coeditor (with Brian Schroeder) of Between Nihilism and Politics: The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo; and cotranslator (with Brian Schroeder) of Carlo Sini's Ethics of Writing, all published by SUNY Press. Brian Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the coeditor (with Lissa McCullough) of Thinking through the Death of God: A Critical Companion to Thomas J. J. Altizer, also published by SUNY Press.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781438437453
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 150
  • Series Title: SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
  • Weight: 340 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1438437455
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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