Beyond Language

Emanuele Severino (1929 –2020) was an Italian philosopher. An original thinker and public intellectual, he is considered one of the most important Italian thinkers of the 20th century.Damiano Sacco is a philosopher and translator and fellow of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Germany.

• Foreword: Being Beyond Language, by Ines Testoni and Giulio GoggiBeyond Translation, by Damiano SaccoPart I1. Violence and Salvation2. Anxiety and Will to Power3. Scientific Specialisation and NothingnessPart II4. Nietzsche and Gentile5. Problematicism and Actual Idealism6. Socrates, Silenus, and VirtuePart III7. On Identity and Difference8. The Unfolding of Language and the Appearing of Destiny9. Language and Destiny

What is Severino looking for in language and beyond? Definitely not something that transcends words, but the appearing of that incontrovertible originary structure that announces itself as much in the said as in the unsaid. The various ways of saying and translating reveal in this way a horizon that is eternal. An intentional challenge to the modern philosophies of language, Severino’s text presents a radical ontology supported by a most stringent logic.