After teaching at Boston University, Alfredo Ferrarin is now professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Pisa. His work on Greek philosophy, modern philosophy, classical German thought, and phenomenology includes some seventy essays as well as the following volumes: Hegel and Aristotle (2001); Artificio, desiderio, considerazione di sé. Hobbes e i fondamenti antropologici della politica (2001); Saggezza, immaginazione e giudizio pratico. Studio su Aristotele e Kant (2004); Galilei e la matematica della natura (2014); The Powers of Pure Reason. Kant and the Idea of Cosmic Philosophy (2015); Thinking and the I. Hegel and the Critique of Kant (2019).
Elisa Magrì is currently a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UCD School of Philosophy, as well as the awardee of a Humboldt Fellowship for Senior Researchers at the University of Cologne, Germany. She specialises in post-Kantian philosophy, phenomenology, and history of philosophy. She authored Hegel e la genesi del concetto. Autoriferimento, memoria, incarnazione (2017), while she dedicated a number of papers to the philosophical relation between Hegel and Merleau-Ponty, as well as to phenomenological issues concerning habit, affectivity, and intersubjectivity. After completing a Newman funded post-doctoral research project on Edith Stein's theory of empathy, she is currently working on a monograph that explores the concept of social sensitivity in the phenomenological tradition, revising contemporary debates on attention, habit, and empathy. She co-edited Empathy, Sociality, and Personhood. Essays on Edith Stein's Phenomenology (2018) with Dermot Moran, and Hegel e la fenomenologia trascendentale (2015) with Alfredo Ferrarin and Danilo Manca.
Danilo Manca received his doctorate from the University of Pisa, where he now teaches Hermeneutics and Phenomenology. The dissertation he defended was entitled The Awakening of Reason. Hegel and Husserl. He was visiting scholar at the University College Dublin, Hegel-Archiv in Bochum and Husserl-Archiv in Freiburg i.Br. He works on classical German philosophy, phenomenology, the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns, aesthetics and philosophy of literature. He published two volumes, Esperienza della ragione. Hegel e Husserl in dialogo (2016), La disputa su ispirazione e composizione. Valéry fra Poe e Borges (2018), and several essays including The phenomenologizing subject as an active power: An Aristotelian model for Husserl's theory of subjectivity (2017), Hegel e Husserl sull'intelligibilità della filosofia (2015). He is the editor in chief of the International Journal "Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories".
Part I. Hegel, Husserl, and the History of Philosophy.- Chapter 1. Husserl's Phenomenology of Spirit (Dermot Moran).- Chapter 2. Phenomenology of Historical Worlds: Possibilities and Problems (Tanja Staehler).- Chapter Chapter 3. Hegel and Husserl on the History of Reason (Danilo Manca).- Chapter 4. Hegel, Husserl and the Philosophy as Rigorous Science (Luca Illetterati).- Part II. Hegel and Phenomenology: Methodological Questions.- Chapter 5. Phenomenology and Dialectic (Stepháne Finetti).- Chapter 6. Hegel's Critique of Foundationalism and its Implications for Husserl's Dream of Rigorous Science (Chong-Fuk Lau).- Chapter 7. Hegelian Apperance and Husserlian Phenomenon (Romain Dufêtre).- Chapter 8. Méditations Hégéliennes vs. Méditations Cartésiennes. Edmund Husserl and Wilfrid Sellars on the Given (Daniele de Santis).- Chapter 9. Abstractness, Universality and Effectual Emptiness. Some Considerations on Hegel's and Husserl's Observations Concerning the Nature, the Meaning and the Function of «reines Ich» (Andrea Altobrando).- Chapter 10. Adorno and the Hegelian Criticism of Husserl's Phenomenology (Giovanni Zanotti).- Part III. Questions of Ontology and Hermeneutics.- Chapter 11. Archèo-logos. Hegel and Heidegger on Finding the Principle in Heraclitus' Saying (Antoine Cantin-Brault).- Chapter 12. Ricoeur as a Reader of Hegel: Between Defiance and Nostalgia (Gilles Marmasse).- Chapter 13. From the Night to the Night. Hegel and Heidegger (Joseph Cohen).- Part IV. Phenomenology of Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity.- Chapter 14. Husserl, Hegel, and Imagination (Alfredo Ferrarin).- Chapter 15. Dialectic and Reversibility. Hegel and Merleau-Ponty (Elisa Magrì.- Chapter 16. Two Approaches to Intersubjectivity. The Meaning of Death in Hegel and Levinas (Guillaume Lejeune).