Gadamer and the Limits of the Modern Techno-Scientific Civilization

Stefano Marino (1976) graduated in Musicology from the University of Bologna (2001), and in Philosophy from the University of Parma (2004). In 2008 he obtained his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bologna, with a focus on aesthetics and ethics. He cooperates with research and teaching activities at the Departments of Philosophy of the Universities of Bologna and Freiburg. His PhD thesis was adapted and developed into his first book Ermeneutica filosofica e crisi della modernità (2009).He also published a book on Th. W. Adorno entitled Un intreccio dialettico (2010). He is the author of many articles and essays published in proceedings and philosophical journals, and he is the co-editor of the collections of papers I sentieri di Zarathustra (2009) and Domandare con Gadamer (2011).

• Contents: Gadamer’s Long Twentieth Century – Science and Technology: The Real Roots of Modernity – The Basic Features of Our Societies: Conformism, Bureaucracy and Self-Alienation – Cosmopolitan Hermeneutics in the Age of the «Clash of Civilizations» – The Possibility of Global Disasters and the Fear for the Self-destruction of Mankind – On the Problematic Character of Ethic and Aesthetic Experiences in the Age of Science – Religious Experience in a Nihilistic Epoch – Hermeneutics, Techno-Science, Enlightenment: A Complex «Constellation» – The Rehabilitation and Universalization of Practical Knowledge and Experience – Reasonableness, Dialogue and Freedom: Ethical-Political Consequences of Hermeneutics.