Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author, editor, and translator of several books, including Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion (coedited with Brian Schroeder) and The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics, both also published by SUNY Press.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Italian Philosophy-Threshold between Cultures
Part I. Ethics, Passions, Practices
Logics of Delusion, Passions, and Time
A Conversation with Remo Bodei
Ethics, Bioethics, and Ethical Sentimentalism
A Conversation with Eugenio Lecaldano
Life, Suffering, Happiness, and Virtue
A Conversation with Salvatore Natoli
Truth, Figures of Truth, and Practices of Life
A Conversation with Carlo Sini
Metaphysics, Ethics, and Applied Ethics
A Conversation with Carmelo Vigna
Part II. History, Justice, Communities
Sexual Difference, Relational Space, and Embodied Singularities
A Conversation with Adriana Cavarero
Ontology of Contingency, Power, and Historical Space-Time
A Conversation with Giacomo Marramao
Philosophy of Right, Historiography, and Individuality
A Conversation with Fulvio Tessitore
Interpretation, History, and Politics
A Conversation with Gianni Vattimo
Global Justice, Democracy, Uncertainty, and Incompleteness
A Conversation with Salvatore Veca
Part III. Imagination, Art, Technology
Technology, Communication, and Aesthetics of the Sublime
A Conversation with Mario Costa
Freedom, Guilt, Nihilism, and Tragic Thought
A Conversation with Sergio Givone
Imagination, Rituality, and Transit
A Conversation with Mario Perniola

Part IV. Rationality, Sciences, Experience
Mathematics, Sciences, Objectivity, and System Theory
A Conversation with Evandro Agazzi
Mathematics, Freedom, and Conflictual Democracy
A Conversation with Giulio Giorello
Science, Knowledge, Rationality, and Empirical Realism
A Conversation with Paolo Parrini
Part V. Being, Nothing, Temporality, Place
Metaphysics, Experience, and Transcendence
A Conversation with Enrico Berti
The Absolute, Finite Beings, and Symbolic Language
A Conversation with Virgilio Melchiorre
Being, Memory, and the Present
A Conversation with Ugo Perone
Being, Becoming, and the Destiny of Truth
A Conversation with Emanuele Severino
Topology, Nothingness, and the Possible God
A Conversation with Vincenzo Vitiello
Part VI. Human Beings, Evil, Transcendence
Religious Experience, Philosophy, and Theology
A Conversation with Giovanni Ferretti
Person, Evil, and Eschatology
A Conversation with Giuseppe Riconda
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Index