Prof. Dr. Costantino Esposito, research fellow at the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has published The New Nihilism. The Existential Crisis of Our Time (Notre Dame University Press, 2024). This book was originally published in Italian (Il nichilismo del nostro tempo – Carocci, 2021) and has been translated into Spanish (El nihilismo de nuestro tiempo – Ediciones Encuentro, 2021), Russian (Совремеменнный нигилилизм. Хроника – Ripol Classic, 2022), Portuguese (O Nihilismo de nosso tempo – Edições Loyola, 2023) and English for the present edition. In this book, Prof. Esposito argues that nihilism is not simply the loss of classical Western values, but can also be an opportunity to ask pertinent questions about the meaning of man and the world. In this way, the author suggests that, rather than being an obstacle, nihilism can become an opportunity to search for the true meaning of our experience in the world.

Prof. Dr. Manca Erzetič has recently joined the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) as a research fellow. Prof. Erzetič holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana with a dissertation entitled Witnessing in Philosophy and Literature within the Historical Situation of the 20th Century. She works as a researcher at the Institute Nova Revija for the Humanities and currently teaches philosophy at the Faculty of Slovenian and International Studies at the New University (Slovenia). She is also the author of several academic and critical articles in the fields of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and cultural studies.

Prof. Dr. Adriano Fabris, co-director and research fellow of International Centre of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has published Heidegger. Una guida (Carocci editore, 2023). The volume consists of ten chapters, written by some of the leading scholars of the German philosopher (Adriano Fabris, Stefano Bancalari, Francesco Camera, Costantino Esposito, Giusi Strummiello, Adriano Ardovino, Eugenio Mazzarella, Carmine Di Martino, Virgilio Cesarone, Aldo Magris), presenting in a clear and exhaustive way the main themes of Heideggerian philosophy: Phenomenology, hermeneutics, ontology, the “thought of Ereignis”, meditations on the work of art and poetry, as well as those on technology and questions of ecological impact, including the nexus with Christianity. An updated bibliography and an explanatory index by Annalisa Caputo of the fundamental concepts used by Heidegger in his research complete the volume.

The International Center of Study on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) has been accepted as a member of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (Fisp), organizer of the World Congress of Philosophy. Thanks to this membership in the most important philosophical organization worldwide, CeNic will participate in the next World Congresses of Philosophy, by organizing on each occasion a symposium related to the phenomenon of contemporary nihilism in its various forms of manifestation. With this new achievement, CeNic continues to advance in its processes of internationalization and visibility. Currently the Center has researchers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Slovenia, Spain and United States.