L'ascolto della coscienza. Una ricerca filosofica. Nuova edizione

This is a new edition, extensively revised with cuts and additions, significantly rewritten and with new introduction of the volume of the same name published in 1998 by Feltrinelli. The result of the philosophical investigation contained in this book is a notion of consciousness as an active boundary between the inner and the outer, a "critical threshold" between the inwardness of the subject that says "I" and the paradoxical exteriority of the Self to which it refers. Emergent threshold of a dialogical connection, but also of a polemical division between different personae and points of view that make up, from the origin, the "theatrum conscientiae". A theater, where the actors are both the witnesses/spectators and vice versa. Hence, the centrality recognized to the instance of voice as an expression of a synthesis between the interiority of listening and its coming "as if from outside". Constant in this investigation is the focus on the classics of philosophical thought. The thought of philosophers such as Plato and Nietzsche, Plotinus and Aristotle, Descartes and Augustine, Benjamin and Kant, Novalis and Hegel, Husserl and Sartre, Heidegger and Wittgenstein, Derrida and Levinas was compared-in the weaving of a virtual dialogue-with that of contemporary theorists of consciousness such as Daniel Dennett and John Searle, Jerry Fodor and Marvin Minsky, Colin McGinn and Sidney Shoemaker, Ernst Tugendhat and Elizabeth Anscombe.