Prof. Dr. Costantino Esposito

 

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Doctor in Philosophy from the Università degli Studi di Bari (Italy) with a thesis entitled “Heidegger e Kant: 1912-1929”, under the direction of Ada Lamacchia. He is currently Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Metaphysics at Università degli Studi di Bari (Italy), at Dipartimento di Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica (DIRIUM) and at the Istituto di Studi Filosofici of the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano. Since December 2021 he has been Professor Honoris Causa at International Institute for Hermeneutics.

Some of his recent publications include:

  • Il nichilismo come problema aperto del nostro tempo, (En: L’invenzione della realtà. Scienza, mito e immaginario nel dialogo tra psiche e mondo oggettivo, Edizioni ETS, 2022, pp. 509-521)
  • “Il nichilismo: negazione o catarsi?” (En: Rivista della Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, No 47, 2022, pp. 207-232)
  • “Being a Problem for Myself: Remarks on the Irreducibility of Human Being”, Inaugural Address as Honorary Professor at the “International Institute for Hermeneutics” (En: Analecta Hermeneutica, Vol. 14, No 2, 2022, pp. 141-155).
  • Il nichilismo del nostro tempo. Una cronaca (Roma, Carocci, 2021)
  • El nihilismo de nuestro tiempo. Una crónica. (Madrid, Ediciones Encuentro, 2021)
  • “El nuevo realismo y la relación entre la verdad y la certeza” (En: Diálogo Filosófico, No 110, 2021, pp. 195-220)
  • “On the Hidden Roots of our Time. The Secret Thought of Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks” (En: Di Martino, C. (ed.), Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy. Technology, Living, Society & Science, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021, pp. 231-250)
  • Il pensiero meta-trascendentale dell’evento. Heidegger anni Trenta-Quaranta (En: A. Ardovino & V. Cesarone (eds.), I Trattati inediti di Heidegger. Temi, problemi, bilanci, prospettive. Mimesis, Milano-Udine, 2020, pp. 53-69)
  • “Vivere il mondo, vivere nel mondo. Agostino in Heidegger”, (En: Bollettino Filosofico, No 35, 2020, pp. 180-197)
  • “Kant” (En: Berti, E. (ed.) Storia della metafisica, Carocci, Roma 2019, pp. 221-250)
  • “La teologia politica di Francisco Suárez”. (En: Quaestio, No 18, 2018, pp. 355-363)
  • “Una volontà senza libertà? Sulla natura della ‘potestas divina’ e della ‘potesas umana’ in Francisco Suárez” (En: Quaestio, No 18, 2018, pp. 405- 429)
 

He is founder and editor of the international journal Quaestio. Anuario di storia della metafísica, and of the series of studies and texts Biblioteca Filosofica di Quaestio and Ad Argumenta. Quaestio special Issues. He is also a member of the editorial board of Heidegger Studies, Viator, Dilthey Jahrbuch, Studia Neoaristotelica, Giornale di Metafísica and Rivista di filosofía.

His research has focused on Heidegger’s thought (mainly on the phenomenology-ontology relationship, the problem of history, nihilism and the Heideggerian reading of Kant, Schelling and Augustine of Hippo), Kant’s philosophy (particularly the relationship between criticism and metaphysics) and the metaphysical work of Francisco Suárez (focusing on the transition between scholasticism and modern ontology). Furthermore, he has translated and edited texts by Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Francisco Suárez, Jean-François Courtine and Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann.

 

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