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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “emanuele severino”
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  • Law and Chance

    by Emanuele Severino ...
    Translated by Damiano Sacco ...
    Series series The Works of Emanuele Severino
    Written by one of the foremost Italian philosophers of the 20th century, Emanuele Severino's Law and Chance (Legge e Caso) explores the metaphysical categories that underpin the theoretical and practical domination of contemporary science. According to Severino, it is only by tracing the origin of the power of science to the Greek meanings of being and nothingness that it becomes possible to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Originary Structure

    by Emanuele Severino ...
    Translated by Damiano Sacco ...
    Series series The Works of Emanuele Severino
    The Originary Structure (La struttura originaria) (1958) is the foundation of Italian philosopher Emanuele Severino's thought, the starting point that establishes and recognizes the essential tenets of the incontrovertibility and necessity of the 'truth of being'.The first book written by Severino, it lays out the logical structure that underlies the philosophical development of his thought for ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • War

    Violence and Technics in the West

    by Emanuele Severino ...
    Translated by Mr Federico Divino ...
    Series series The Works of Emanuele Severino
    The first English translation of Emanuele Severino's provocative analysis of the philosophy behind war in the West.Drawing on a broad range of sources, from Heraclitus to 20th-century grassroots movements, Italy's foremost philosopher calls for a new way of thinking that could lead the West to perpetual peace. War, for Severino, is not merely the manifestation of conflict through violence to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Tautótes

    On the Western Meaning of Identity

    by Emanuele Severino ...
    Translated by Mr Antimo Lucarelli ...
    Series series The Works of Emanuele Severino
    The first English translation of Emanuele Severino's radical critique of the notion of identity.Starting from his central intuition that Western culture is essentially nihilism, Emanuele Severino reflects anew on the problem of identity, abandoning the ambiguous (and ultimately contradictory) fashion in which being and becoming are grasped in the Western tradition. In this foundational work in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Fundamental Tendency of Our Time

    On the Technological Destiny of the West

    by Emanuele Severino ...
    Translated by Mr Antimo Lucarelli ...
    Series series The Works of Emanuele Severino
    The Fundamental Tendency of Our Times (Tendenza) is the Italian philosopher Emanuele Severino's crucial reflection on modern technology and science, in which he articulates his major contribution to the analysis of Western modernity: the claim that, beginning with Greek civilization, a nihilistic spirit of domination informs our conceptual and social systems.In this book Severino applies his ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Beyond Language

    by Emanuele Severino ...
    Translated by Damiano Sacco ...
    Series series The Works of Emanuele Severino
    Beyond Language (Oltre il Linguaggio) is one of Italian philosopher Emmanuele Severino's major works, wrestling with whether it's possible to think meaningfully outside of the restrictions of language. Increasingly recognised as a truly foundational thinker in the formation of contemporary theory, Severino's ideas around self-expression, forms of communication and the limitations of language ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Essence of Nihilism

    by Emanuele Severino ...
    Translated by Giacomo Donis ...
    A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translationBetween 1961 and 1970, Emanuele Severino was subjected to a thorough investigation by the Vatican Inquisition. The “fundamental incompatibility” identified between his thought and Christian doctrine ejected him from his position as Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan. The Essence of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Artificial Intelligence Versus Natural Intelligence

    by Roger Penrose, Emanuele Severino, Fabio Scardigli, Ines Testoni, Giuseppe Vitiello, Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano, Federico Faggin ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book centers around a dialogue between Roger Penrose and Emanuele Severino about one of most intriguing topics of our times, the comparison of artificial intelligence and natural intelligence, as well as its extension to the notions of human and machine consciousness.Additional insightful essays by Mauro D'Ariano, Federico Faggin, Ines Testoni, Giuseppe Vitiello and an introduction of Fabio ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Determinism and Free Will

    New Insights from Physics, Philosophy, and Theology

    by Fabio Scardigli, Gerard 't Hooft, Emanuele Severino, Piero Coda ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In this small book, theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel prize 1999), philosopher Emanuele Severino (Lincei Academician), and theologian Piero Coda (Pontifical Lateran University) confront one another on a topic that lies at the roots of quantum mechanics and at the origin of Western thought: Determinism and Free Will. "God does not play dice" said Einstein, a tenacious determinist. ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

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    Translated by Thomas Sheehan ...
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  • Kant’s Theory of Mental Activity

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  • The Basic Problems of Phenomenology

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    Translated by Albert Hofstadter ...
    An "excellent translation" of an essential text by the author of Being and Time, in which he continues his pioneering work in phenomenology ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).A lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave in 1927, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology continues and extends explorations begun in Being and Time. In this text, Heidegger provides the general outline of his thinking about the ... Read more

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