Abstract

Carlo Sini (1933) is one of the leading figures in contemporary Italian philosophy. He wrote his first texts on Hegel and Husserl, then he combined Husserlian phenomenology and Heideggerian ontology with a series of Anglo-Saxon and American elements, above all Alfred N. Whitehead’s philosophy of nature and process, and Charles S. Peirce’s semiotics and cosmology. This gave birth to a very original reflection on a vast series of philosophical issues (such as signs, writing, the phenomenology of time, the body, the structure of subjectivation) and to an ambitious project of genealogical revision of the Western philosophical tradition and of its basic metaphysical problems (the mind-body dualism, the question of truth, the intertwining between man and technique, the challenge of politics, and the ethical task of philosophy itself).