E-MAIL: susan.petrilli@gmail.com --- s.petrilli@lingue.uniba.it
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E-MAIL: susan.petrilli@gmail.com --- s.petrilli@lingue.uniba.it
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AUGUSTO PONZIO - SUSAN PETRILLI - JULIA PONZIO
Reasoning with Emmanuel Levinas is intended in a double sense. 1) It means to entertain a dialogue with Levinas, an extraordinary philosopher of our time. With Levinas the authors of this book interrogate problems that are at once philosophical, semiotical, and ethico-political —“eternal problems” concerning the human being, but “immer wieder,” problems reproposed in ever new forms. 2) It also means to discuss todays’ reality that like reality of all times is always the expression of dominant ideology. In our case, this is a question of Western ideology in its capitalist phase with respect to which Hegelian philosophy represents its synthesis, apex, and conclusion, its sunset. Referring to Western reality and its ideology the authors of this book discuss the problems inevitably imposed by globalization today. This extreme form of capitalism consists in total commodification, including commodification of all communicative relations; its desperate task is to reproduce itself, this same reproduction system. But to reason with Levinas means to take his point of view. By contrast with Western reason, this means to resist reproducing the Identical, to resist reducing our relations with others to reified relations of exchange, competition, and egoistic interests. Therefore, to reason with Levinas also means to propose a hypothesis and to verify it from his extraordinary perspective — extra-ordinary with respect to dominant ideology in Western thought. Augusto Ponzio is Full Professor of Philosophy of Language and General Linguistics and Head of the Department of Linguistic Practices and Text Analysis at the University of Bari, Italy. His principal studies include monographs on Bakhtin, Marx, Levinas, Schaff, Rossi-Landi. Susan Petrilli is Associate Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bari, Department of Linguistic Practices and Text Analysis. Her main publications include monographic studies on Welby, Peirce, Morris and Sebeok. Julia Ponzio is Researcher in Philosophy of Language at the University of Bari, Department of Linguistic Practices and Text Analysis. Her principal studies concern Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas , Derrida.
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