On the Future of the World
2027
First Published
120
Number of Pages
After Nihilism and Destiny (Mimesis International, 2015), here presented is a second collection of writings by Ema-nuele Severino, one of the most prominent philosophers of contemporaneity translated for the first time in English. while the first volume introduced the fundamental outlines of Severinian philosophy, in this second text Severino’s analysis turns to the contemporary world and its main politics, economics, religion, ethics, and technics guided by science. Page after page, Severino’s analysis digs to their deepest roots and deduces what will be their inevitable development. Such «deduction» could also be called «prediction» of the future, but only insofar as what is understood by it is the logical argumentation that shows how the foundation of a thing essentially determines its necessary development. hence the On the Future of the World.
Author
Emanuele Severino
Author · 80 books
Emanuele Severino (26 February 1929 – 17 January 2020) was a Italian philosopher. Because of his original philosophical position, the so-called neoparmenidism, Severino was claimed to be "a giant" and "the only philosopher who in the 20th century can be compared to Heidegger". In 1970, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ruled that Severino's ideas were not compatible with Christianity as the basis of Severino's belief in "the eternity of all being," a belief said to eliminate a Creator God. Severino received from the President of the Italian Republic the "Golden medal of the Republic for culture merits" (Medaglia d’oro della Repubblica per i Benemeriti della Cultura). He died in January 2020 due to a lung disease.
