War

Emanuele Severino (1929 –2020) was an Italian philosopher. An original thinker and public intellectual, he is considered one of the most important Italian philosophers of the 20th century.Federico Divino is a Researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has served as Professor for the Master in Death Studies at the University of Padua, Italy, and is currently completing dual PhDs in Transcultural Studies (University of Bergamo, Italy) and Social Sciences (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

• Series Editor ForewordIntroduction, Federico Divino1. War and the Western Soul2. War as ‘Function’3. The Rejection of War4. Duumvirate and Grassroots Movement5. Flesh and Spirit6. The Logic of Isolation7. Plato and the Division of Labour8. Eros, Thanatos: Plato and War9. The Condemnation of Violence10. Victorious Violence and Defeated Violence11. Medicine as the Disease12. Violence and Dialogue13. The Violence of Dialogue14. Original Violence15. The Peace of the Diseased16. Logic of Tension17. In Praise of Folly18. War and Pacifism19. Bipolarity, Revolution Disarmament20. The Eye of the Needle21. The Demon and the DestinyNotesIndex

In War, Severino delves into the undergrowth of events, tracing the phenomenon back to its metaphysical roots that hark back to the dawn of Greek philosophy. Although the text was written immediately after the great crisis of 1989, it retains its power, which unfolds in the radicalism of a philosophical analysis that shares Nietzsche's sense of untimeliness, whereby only by going against one's own time and the dominant concepts that shape it, is it possible to reveal its essence.