The volume »Environmental Ethics: Cross-cultural Explorations « places cross-cultural study at the center of inquiry. The cross-culturally rich explorations collected in this volume seek to critically examine some theoretical assumptions driving current debates in the...
The otherness of the other, considered as foreignness, is deeply intertwined with the problem of translation and with the one of morality. How can the two of them be brought together based on the work of Emmanuel Levinas? The main question which leads my analysis is...
This article aims to address, by means of a two-step analysis, the foundations of the relationship between history and psychoanalysis as "disciplinary practices" that deal with the past. In the first step, I examine the different relationships between history and...
What is the significance of our conceptual capacity in the constitution and articulation of meaning? The book pursues this question by bringing Hegel and Heidegger into conversation. The background is the conception of negativity shared by both authors, according to...
Immanuel Kant's work continues to be a main focus of attention in almost all areas of philosophy. The significance of Kant's work for the so-called continental philosophy cannot be exaggerated, although work in this area is relatively scant. The book includes eight...
This collective volume aims at contributing to an in depth understanding of the relationship between phenomenology and psychoanalysis, drawing on research that renews and complements the area of discussion opened by recent publications on this interdisciplinary...
Pre-theoretical experience and the lifeworld are traditionally seen as a key reference for phenomenology. In the present paper I intend to point out their relevance for critical theory as well. To this extent, I start off with a brief overview of phenomenological...
This article seeks to provide a phenomenological inquiry into schizophrenia through which I propose to bring to the fore the mental violence exercised against the self in the case of a psychotic patient. My main aim is to show that a phenomenological analysis of...
In the world we live in, the presence of violence is undeniable: its phenomenal field spreads from extreme forms of destruction, which often set the bloody milestones of our history, to expressions entangled in our everyday life. Equally undeniable is the...
How can phenomenology help address the problem of social violence? Can phenomenology provide an adequate description of its essence? Is the phenomenological method able to deepen and transform its comprehension? The paper is an attempt to answer these questions...
The aim of the present article is to offer a new interpretation of Heidegger's account of the unfolding of language by analyzing the notion of Gelí¤ut der Stille, "sounding gathering of silence." Taking as a starting point the experience of silence described by...
The paper aims to rectify the reception of Heidegger's so-called "hermeneutic violence," by addressing the under-investigated issue of its actual target and rationale. Since the publication of Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, his immediate readers, such as...