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Luigi Pareyson (1918-1991) was a seminal Italian philosopher. As a professor at the University of Turin he had many subsequently famous students, including Gianni Vattimo and Umberto Eco. The author of more than twenty ground-breaking books, Pareyson’s work first focused on Existentialism and then on the notion of interpretation. Together with Gadamer and Ricoeur, he can be considered one of the fathers of Hermeneutics This anthology represents the first English translation of his writings.

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…the first thorough study of the relationship between nihilism and the postmodern condition. While the nihilism of postmodernity is often gestured towards, it is rarely examined in detail. Moreover, postmodern thinkers are often dismissed as nihilists themselves. This book challenges this received notion -  which shapes much contemporary theory - by uncovering the diagnosis of, and critical response to, nihilism in three major postmodern thinkers: Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Vattimo.

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In Faith, Reason and the Natural Sciences: The Challenge of the Natural Sciences in the Work of Theologians the author attempts to go beyond Non-overlapping Magisteria, showing why the sciences constitute a fruitful challenge for theologians’ work, and the insights of Judaeo-Christian Revelation constitute a source of understanding for scientists’ ultimate questions.

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Impossible Reading compares polemics against idols in both the Hebrew Bible and the Apostle Paul to argue that to welcome diversity requires shunning idolatry. The author explores how these polemics inform the approach to diversity in works by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Herman Melville, and Alfredo Véa.

 

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The End of Literature is an essay in originary thinking. It argues that the starting point for all fundamental reflection on the human, whether scientific, mythical, aesthetic, or philosophical, is the hypothetical event of human origin. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Eric Gans, the author compares the latter’s idea of the “originary hypothesis” to rival research strategies in the humanities and human sciences.

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Of the many available books that celebrate the Bible, Shakespeare, and Charles Darwin, The Evolutionary Sequence is the first study to show their continuity....

 

 

 

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Opening Doors begins with a polemical introduction in which Watson explains where he agrees with—also, more importantly, where he differs from—the currently popular New Atheism (Dawkins, Hitchens etc.). Opening Doors may be the most provocative intervention yet made in the context of the recent philosophical turn to religion. Reviving the case made by the now largely forgotten literary critic, F.R.Leavis, for the novelists D.H.Lawrence and Joseph Conrad, Watson brings these writers into a conversation about religion with Derrida, Levinas and Agamben, arguing that when read together these most unlikely bedfellows help us revitalize our thinking. 

 

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New in 2010

 

 

Beyond Sovereignty

D. G. Leahy (Spring, 2010)

 

Romanesque Signs

Stephen Nichols (Spring, 2010)

 

Nihilism in Postmodernity

Ashley Woodward (January, 2010)

 

Existence, Interpretation, Freedom

Luigi Pareyson (January, 2010)

 

Reviving Antigone

Kathrin H. Rosenfield (Spring, 2010)

 

The Sciences and the Fullness of Rationality

Alberto Strumia (Spring, 2010)

 

Dynamics of Legitimation

Flavio Cassinari (Spring, 2010)

 

Mathias Carvalho's Louis Riel: Religion, Writing, and Colonial Resistance

Jennifer Reid (Spring, 2010)

 

 
         
 

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