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The essence of nihilism / Emanuele Severino ; translated by Giacomo Donis ; edited by Ines Testoni and Alessandro Carrera.
Author
Severino, Emanuele
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Uniform title
Essenza del nichilismo.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
English-language edition.
Published/Created
London ; New York : Verso, 2016.
©2016
Description
xxvi, 358 pages ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
B828.3 .S4813 2016
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Subject(s)
Nihilism (Philosophy)
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Translator
Donis, Giacomo
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Writer of introduction
Testoni, Ines
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Carrera, Alessandro, 1954-
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Summary note
Between 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 Nihilism, published in 1972, was the first book to follow his expulsion, and it established Severino's preeminent position within the the constellation of contemporary philosophy. In this groundbreaking and classic book, now for the first time available in English, Severino reinterprets the history of Western philosophy as the unfolding of "the greatest folly," that is, of the belief that "things come out of nothing and fall back into nothing." According to Severino, such a typically Western understanding of reality has resulted in a conviction that there is a radical "nothingness" to existence. In turn, this justifies the treatment of the world as an object of exploitation, degradation and destruction. To move beyond Western nihilism, suggests Severino, we must first of all "return to Parmenides." Joining forces with the most venerable of Greek philosophers, Severino confutes nihilism's "path of night", and develops a new philosophy grounded on the principle of the eternity of reality and of every single existent thing. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes
"Originally published in Italian by Paideia as Essenza del nichilismo ... ©1982"--Title page verso.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
Translated from the Italian.
Contents
Foreword: Severino's magical castle / by Alessandro Carrera
Fear of death? What about eternity ... / by Ines Testoni
Introduction: The structure of Western history and the supersession of the alienated critique of alienation
Part one: Returning to Parmenides
Returning to Parmenides (postscript)
Part two: The path of day
The earth and the essence of man
On the meaning of the "death of God"
Alienation and the salvation of truth
Part three: Aletheia
Concluding remark (1982).
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ISBN
9781784786113 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
178478611X ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
9781784786106 ((hardcover))
1784786101 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016033164
OCLC
953918938
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