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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Italian Philosophy-Threshold between Cultures -- An Increasing Recognition -- The Italian Difference -- A Linguistic Event -- Threshold of Encounters -- Narrating the Story -- Setting the Parameters -- Structuring the Volume -- Notes -- One: Ethics, Passions, Practices -- Logics of Delusion, Passions, and Time -- Ethics, Bioethics, and Ethical Sentimentalism -- Life, Suffering, Happiness, and Virtue -- Truth, Figures of Truth, and Practices of Life -- Metaphysics, Ethics, and Applied Ethics -- Two: History, Justice, Communities -- Sexual Difference, Relational Space, and Embodied Singularities -- Ontology of Contingency, Power, and Historical Space-Time -- Philosophy of Right, Historiography, and Individuality -- Interpretation, History, and Politics -- Global Justice, Democracy, Uncertainty, and Incompleteness -- Three: Imagination, Art, Technology -- Technology, Communication, and Aesthetics of the Sublime -- Freedom, Guilt, Nihilism, and Tragic Thought -- Imagination, Rituality, and Transit -- Four: Rationality, Sciences, Experience -- Mathematics, Sciences, Objectivity, and System Theory -- Mathematics, Freedom, and Conflictual Democracy -- Science, Knowledge, Rationality, and Empirical Realism -- Five: Being, Nothing, Temporality, Place -- Metaphysics, Experience, and Transcendence -- The Absolute, Finite Beings, and Symbolic Language -- Being, Memory, and the Present -- Being, Becoming, and the Destiny of Truth -- Topology, Nothingness, and the Possible God -- Six: Human Beings, Evil, Transcendence -- Religious Experience, Philosophy, and Theology -- Person, Evil, and Eschatology -- Select Bibliography -- Index

The relation between the Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions is "the great problem" of Western philosophy, according to Emmanuel Levinas. In this book Brian Schroeder, Silvia Benso, and an international group of philosophers address the relationship between Levinas and the world of ancient thought. In addition to philosophy, themes touching on religion, mythology, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, ethics, and politics are also explored. The volume as a whole provides a unified and extended discussion