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    The Face of Things: A Different Side of Ethics.Silvia Benso - 2000 - State University of New York Press.
    Engages Levinas and Heidegger on the provocative issue of an ethics of things.
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  2. Luigi Pareyson: a master in Italian hermeneutics.Silvia Benso - 2018 - In Thinking the inexhaustible: art, interpretation, and freedom in the philosophy of Luigi Pareyson. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
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    (1 other version)The Face of Things.Silvia Benso - 1997 - Symposium 1 (1):5-15.
    Moving from Heidegger’s suggestion that philosophy has fallen into the Thaletian well because of its inadequate theorization of the essence of things, I retrace in Heidegger’s description of things as gathering elements that enable a discourse on things in terms of their alterity,· I explore the richness of such an alterity in its differing from Levinas’s otherness of the other person; I suggest the formulation of an ethics of things which, through a reciprocal exposure of Heidegger and Levinas, might rescue (...)
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    Levinas and the Ancients.Brian Schroeder & Silvia Benso (eds.) - 2008 - Indiana University Press.
    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 of how an engagement between Levinas and thinkers from (...)
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    Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion.Silvia Benso & Brian Schroeder (eds.) - 2007 - State University of New York Press.
    Leading Italian philosophers engage issues in ethics, politics, and religion.
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  6. SpazioFilosofico_14 Festival I.Silvia Benso, Alessandra Cislaghi, Enrico Guglielminetti & Luciana Regina - 2015 - Spazio Filosofico 2 (14):179-320.
    The current and the next issues of “Spazio Filosofico”, both devoted to Festival (Festival I and II respectively), are dedicated to Ugo Perone on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Perone’s friends and colleagues have chosen to celebrate his birthday in a philosophical way, namely, with a reflection on the concept of festival/holiday [festa] and its meaning for us today. Thrifty spirits might object that a journal issue is like a gift – one is enough. Are these not times of (...)
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    (1 other version)Levinas—Another Ascetic Priest?Silvia Benso - 1996 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 27 (2):137-156.
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    Of Things Face-to-Face with Levinas Face-to-Face with Heidegger: Prolegomena to a Metaphysical Ethics of Things.Silvia Benso - 1996 - Philosophy Today 40 (1):132-141.
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    Aesth-ethics.Silvia Benso - 2008 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (1):163-183.
    Levinas’s most important contribution to contemporary philosophy is his continual vindication of the primacy of the ethical. For the contemporary reader, educated in the shadow of the Nietzschean thought that existence as will to power is art, this claim comes as an uneasy surprise. What is the place of the aesthetic within the preeminence of the ethical in Levinas’s philosophy? Or, more specifically, what is, for Levinas, the place of art in relation to the ethical? Through a Levinasian reading of (...)
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    Luigi Pareyson’s Ontology of Freedom.Silvia Benso - 2021 - In Silvia Benso & Antonio Calcagno (eds.), _Open Borders: Encounters Between Italian Philosophy and Continental Thought_, eds. Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. pp. 21-43.
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  11. Earthly Morality and the Other.Silvia Benso - 2012 - In William Edelglass, James Hatley & Christian Diehm (eds.), Facing Nature: Levinas and Environmental Thought. Duquesne University Press. pp. 191-208.
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  12. Joy beyond Boredom : Totality and Infinity as a Work of Wonder.Silvia Benso - 2012 - In Scott Davidson & Diane Perpich (eds.), Totality and infinity at 50. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne University Press.
     
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    Vattimo's Hermeneutics as a Practice of Freedom.Silvia Benso & Brian Schroeder - 2010 - In Silvia Benso & Brian Schroeder (eds.), Between Nihilism and Politics: The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo. State University of New York Press. pp. 47-62.
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    Introduction.Silvia Benso & Antonio Calcagno - 2021 - In Silvia Benso & Antonio Calcagno (eds.), _Open Borders: Encounters Between Italian Philosophy and Continental Thought_, eds. Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. pp. 1-17.
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  15. Stella Sandford, The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas. Claire Elise Katz, Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine: The Silent Footsteps of Rebecca.Silvia Benso - 2004 - Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 14 (1):98-104.
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    A Politics of Witnessing: History, Memory, and the Third—Beyond Levinas.Silvia Benso - 2003 - Studies in Practical Philosophy 3 (2):5-12.
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    Between Nihilism and Politics: The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo.Silvia Benso & Brian Schroeder (eds.) - 2010 - State University of New York Press.
    Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy.
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    Contemporary Italian women philosophers: stretching the art of thinking.Silvia Benso & Elvira Roncalli (eds.) - 2021 - Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
    Gathering the contributions of eleven contemporary Italian women thinkers who share a philosophical practice, Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers embraces a general interrelationality, fluidity, and overlapping of concepts for a border-crossing that affects what it means to be subjects that are embodied and participants in the life of their communities, thereby shaping a sense of belonging. Common threads are revealed through the exploration of radically diverse themes (the body, subjectivity, power, freedom, equality, liberation, the emotions, symbolism and metaphors, maternity, reproduction, responsibility, (...)
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    Ethics of Writing.Silvia Benso & Brian Schroeder (eds.) - 2009 - Albany, USA: State University of New York Press.
    _First English translation of Sini’s important work on the influence of writing and the alphabet on Western rationality._.
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    From veritas to caritas, or how nihilism yields to democracy: Gianni Vattimo, Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, & Law. Ed. Santiago Zabala. Trans. William McCuaig. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 197 pp + xxiii.Silvia Benso - 2006 - Human Studies 29 (4):503-508.
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    Gardens: Philosophical Con/Texts, Environmental Practices.Silvia Benso - 2000 - Call to Earth 1 (2):10-14.
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  22. Introduction.Silvia Benso - 2009 - In Carlo Sini (ed.), Ethics of Writing. State University of New York Press.
     
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  23. Introduction: thinking and the inexhaustible.Silvia Benso & Brian Schroeder - 2018 - In Thinking the inexhaustible: art, interpretation, and freedom in the philosophy of Luigi Pareyson. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
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  24. Krzysztof Ziarek, Inflected Language: Toward a Hermeneutic of Nearness―Heidegger, Levinas, Stevens, Celan.Silvia Benso - 1995 - Philosophy in Review 15 (4):301-302.
     
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  25. Lost in translation: Luigi Pareyson e gli studi pareysoniani in ambito anglosassone.Silvia Benso - 2017 - Annuario Filosofico 33:195-207.
    By exploring various semantic possibilities contained in the expression “lost in translation”, this essay addresses various difficulties entailed in the work of translation in general and as they apply to the translation into English of the works of Luigi Pareyson specifically. The essay also surveys the status of the Pareyson scholarship in the Anglophone world and suggests possible ways to foster a more congenial milieu for the appreciation of this important Italian philosopher whose thought is rarely recognized by Anglophone thinkers, (...)
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    Marramao’s Kairós: The Space of “Our” Time in the Time of Cosmic Disorientation.Silvia Benso - 2008 - Human Studies 31 (2):223-228.
  27. On an Ethics of Things: Levinas and Heidegger Revisited.Silvia Benso - 1993 - Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University
    Traditional ethics has ignored the metaphysics of things, reduced the relation to things to a relation to objects in opposition to subjects, and consequently legitimized the subject's domination over the objects. My dissertation provides a metaphysical and ethical foundation for reappraising the value of things by both challenging and retrieving different aspects of Levinas's and Heidegger's philosophies. ;Levinas considers the Other as the authority capable of suspending the subject's tendency to unlimited power and domination, mistakenly understood as freedom. Ethics is (...)
     
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    Open Borders: Encounters Between Italian Philosophy and Continental Thought, eds. Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno.Silvia Benso & Antonio Calcagno (eds.) - 2021 - Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
    Puts leading Italian thinkers into conversation with established Continental philosophers concerning the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.
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    On Luigi Pareyson.Silvia Benso - 2005 - Philosophy Today 49 (4):381-390.
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    On the way to an ontological ethics: Ethical suggestions in reading Heidegger.Silvia Benso - 1994 - Research in Phenomenology 24 (1):159-188.
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    Pensare ambientalista. Tra filosofia e ecologia [Environmental Thinking: Between Philosophy and Ecology].Silvia Benso - 2000 - Turin, Italy: Paravia.
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    Pensare dopo Auschwitz. Etica filosofica e teodicea ebraica [Thinking After Auschwitz: Philosophical Ethics and Jewish Theodicy].Silvia Benso - 1992 - Naples: ESI.
    Discusses the impact of the Holocaust on modern philosophy as a rupture. Analyzes the contribution of Christianity to antisemitism, as well as philosophical trends prior to the Holocaust, showing how the Jew was perceived as the incarnation of all that was negative and different, whose elimination became the only way the Western world could acquire an identity. also discusses Jewish theology after Auschwitz, and the question of God's presence and man's faith in the face of such tremendous tragedy.
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  33. Playing with shadows in Heidegger's reading of Greek tragedy : encountering Oedipus, Antigone, and (absent) Medea.Silvia Benso - 2023 - In Andrew E. Benjamin (ed.), Heidegger and literary studies. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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  34. The Other Ground: The Sense of the Earth.Silvia Benso - 2016 - In Jason M. Wirth, Michael Schwartz & David Edward Jones (eds.), On the True Sense of Art: A Critical Companion to the Transfigurements of John Sallis. Evanston, Illinois: Nothwestern University Press. pp. 54-116.
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    Thinking the inexhaustible: art, interpretation, and freedom in the philosophy of Luigi Pareyson.Silvia Benso (ed.) - 2018 - Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
    Essays address the major themes of Pareyson’s hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood. What if the inexhaustible were the only mode of self-revelation of truth? The question of the inexhaustibility of truth, and its relation to being and interpretation, is the challenge posed by the philosophy of the prominent Italian thinker Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991). Art, the interpretation of truth, and the theory of being as the ontology of both inexhaustibility and freedom constitute the main themes (...)
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    The Wisdom of Love or Negotiating Mythos and Logos with Plato and Levinas.Silvia Benso - 2005 - Dialogue and Universalism 15 (3-4):117-128.
    Inverting the sequence of the traditional terms, in Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence Levinas redefines philosophy as the “wisdom of love”. Through an intertwining of Platonic motifs and Levinasian inspirations, the essay argues for a mutually regulated interplay of mythos and logos as a way to regain a sense of wisdom that remains respectful of the elements of otherness in reality-in particular, respectful of the otherness of the Third who, for Levinas, constitutes the ground for politics. That is, the (...)
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    Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers.Silvia Benso - 2017 - Albany, USA: State University of New York Press.
    Firsthand perspectives on the past, present, and future of contemporary Italian philosophy.
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    Aesthetics of the Virtual.Justin L. Harmon & Silvia Benso (eds.) - 2012 - State University of New York Press.
    _Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies._.
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    Truth and Interpretation.Robert T. Valgenti & Silvia Benso (eds.) - 2013 - State University of New York Press.
    _A resolute defense of philosophy and hermeneutics against the threats of dogmatism and relativism._.
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    Agamben, Giorgio. Sovereignty & Life. Edited by Matthew Calarco and Steven DeCaroli. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+ 282. Paper, $21.95. Ambuel, David. Image and Paradigm in Plato's Sophist. Las Vegas, NV: Parmenides Publishing, 2006. Pp. vii+ 279. Cloth, $32.00. Arikha, Noga. Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers. [REVIEW]Silvia Benso & Brian Schroeder - 2007 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (4):681-84.
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    François Raffoul, The Origins of Responsibility, Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2010. 360 pp., ISBN: 978–0-2532–2173-5. [REVIEW]Silvia Benso - 2014 - Derrida Today 7 (2):236-244.
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    Gestures of work: Levinas and Hegel. [REVIEW]Silvia Benso - 2006 - Continental Philosophy Review 40 (3):307-330.
    What is Levinas's relation to Hegel, the thinker who seems to summarize everything which Levinas's philosophy opposes, yet with whom Levinas never enters a sustained philosophical engagement? An answer can be found through an analysis of the concept of work, understood both as activity of labor and product thereof. The concept of work reveals that, despite the apparent (but superficial) sense of opposition, Levinas's philosophy works in a deliberately noncommittal, or, to use a Levinasian expression, ``dis-interested'' mode with respect to (...)
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    Tanja Staehler, Plato and Levinas: The Ambiguous Out-Side of Ethics. [REVIEW]Silvia Benso - 2010 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (10).
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    The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas. [REVIEW]Silvia Benso - 1994 - Review of Metaphysics 47 (3):605-605.
    Two waves mark the appropriation of Derrida in English: an earlier, literary and a later, philosophical reception. Both readings neglect the relation between deconstruction and ethics, leaving unanswered the question: "why bother with deconstruction?". Critchley's book, written in an elegant, concise, clear and yet--despite its scholarly rigor--pleasant style, admittedly locates itself at the origin of a third way of reception, "one in which ethical--not to mention political--questions are uppermost".
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    Simon Critchley, The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas. [REVIEW]Silvia Benso - 1994 - Review of Metaphysics 47 (3):605-606.
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    Lisa Guenther, The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction. [REVIEW]Silvia Benso - 2007 - Dialogue 46 (2):409-411.
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    The time of the feminine: For a politics of maternal corporeality. Tina Chanter, time, death, and the feminine: Levinas with Heidegger. [REVIEW]Silvia Benso - 2003 - Continental Philosophy Review 36 (2):195-202.