«Fortunately philosophical knowledge manages to escape the clutches of epistemology that wants to crystallize in a definition devoid of developments and relationships "(p.6). The philosophy as an approach to existence, as theoretical research, yes, but with more applications than ever before practice. Stephen Cazzato, professor of philosophy in high schools for over twenty years and contributor to newspapers and magazines, lucidly points out, in the wake of Deleuze's philosophy is not how much you actually know a single, but a knowledge which branches and turns "sometimes colonizing other disciplines, sometimes giving in to them, more often contaminate and marrying» (ibidem).
In this short but intense anthology, are analyzed the thought and texts of contemporary philosophers also placed in alphabetical order according to a method - thankfully - anti-historicist, just to make sure that the text be read both bones from employees who do not, by teachers means that the material, but also simply by enthusiasts of the philosophy. Orient ourselves in this beautiful journey through the brilliant textual analysis that Cazzato ago - by Adorno in Zambrano via Dewey, Heidegger, Levinas, Nietzsche, Nussbaum, etc.., Helps us to understand just how much, as the same Nussbaum said, philosophy should be concrete thinking that leads to reasoning «solid, well-founded and convincing» (p. 78).
he philosophy, or rather, what we call philosophy exists and can be defined, and there is, however, stresses the author, philosophy alone, but philosophies. These are alive and well and serve (in a practical way, in fact, the actual term approach to everyday life) in the sense that the Americans had realized, alas, perhaps much earlier than us. The philosophy "can still comfort us and give a more or less stable in our lives. With or without concepts "
Ilenia Beatrice Protopapa