Perone The Possible Present

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3747-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

A practical hermeneutics of time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perone, Ugo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Benso, Silvia

Schroeder, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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: Naiveté 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

Über Autor(innen)

Ugo Perone is Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Università 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.