The Fundamental Tendency of Our Time
$42.23
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
18 February 2026
Summary
The Nihilistic Spirit: Severino’s Analysis of Modern Technology
The Fundamental Tendency of Our Times (Tendenza) is the Italian philosopher Emanuele Severino’s crucial reflection on modern technology and science, in which he articulates his major contribution to the analysis of Western modernity: the claim that, beginning with Greek civilization, a nihilistic spirit of domination informs our conceptual and social systems.
In this book Severino appli…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350468351 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350468355 |
| Series: | The Works of Emanuele Severino |
| Author: | Emanuele Severino, Antimo Lucarelli |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 18 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
About The Author
Emanuele Severino
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.
Antimo Lucarelli is a translator at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.
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