This book provides an analysis of values and identity within the context of ancient, modern and contemporary philosophy. This issue is addressed from the viewpoints of intersubjective and individual experience. The contributors to this volume answer the following questions: What are the lived-meanings of values and ethics from a philosophical, sociological and psychological perspective? How does society constitute its own life-word? What is the meaning of values? What is the role of values in defining self-identity? How does their meaning change within a political context? Do politics and aesthetics affect our moral identity? What is the role of values in the state of nature? How does art accomplish its primary task: raising human consciousness over and against the reified world of commodities? This volume offers an opportunity to reflect on these issues from a philosophical point of view and to explore the dialogue of philosophy with sociology and psychology.
About the Author: Susi Ferrarello received her PhD in Philosophy from the Sorbonne in Paris. She has held professorships at University of Rome La Sapienza and the Florence University of the Arts. She currently teaches at both Loyola University Chicago (Rome Campus) and Saybrook University in San Francisco. An expert in ancient and contemporary philosophy, she has authored a number of books, including Il progetto etico e l'idea di scienza in Husserl (2010), Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity and Values in Edmund Husserl (2014), and Practical Intentionality (forthcoming), in addition to several articles, such as Values, Normativity and Facts, Husserl's Phenomenology of Validity, and Husserl's Theory of Intersubjectivity. Dr Ferrarello has taught courses in language, philosophy, and history. Her pedagogical resume includes Latin, Ancient Greek, Phenomenology, Moral Philosophy, Bioethics, Philosophy of Rights, Philosophy and Science, and History of Christianity. Dr. Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi received his PhD in Philosophy (with distinction) from Loyola University Chicago, his MA from San Diego State University, and his Laurea in Sociology from the University of Rome La Sapienza. He teaches philosophy at the Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago, and at St. John's University. His area of research broadly addresses continental philosophy, with a special focus on aesthetics, the Renaissance and political philosophy, and with a concentration in critical theory, particularly the works of T. W. Adorno. He has also extensively published and presented articles on Nietzsche, Marx and Schopenhauer. His latest book, as both editor and contributor, is Critical Theory and the Challenge of Praxis. Dr. Ludovisi is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for European Philosophy and organizer of the yearly conferences on critical theory in Rome. He has given lectures and presented papers in several worldwide institutions, such as universities in the US, Italy, Canada, Poland, Ireland, Portugal, Mexico and the UK.