Dr. Robert Valgenti

• “Vattimo’s Nietzsche” in Interpreting Nietzsche: Reception and Influence. Edited by Ashley Woodward. New York: Continuum Press, 2011.
• “Introduction” in Gianni Vattimo, A Farewell to Truth. Translated by William McCuaig. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
• "Ugo Perone's Philosophy at the Threshold: Space, Time, and (Simulated) Political Life" in Symposium, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2010.
  
• "Weak Thought and the Recovery of Reason," in Between Nihilisim and Politics: The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo.  (Albany: SUNY University Press, 2010).
• "The Tradition of Tradition in Hermeneutics" in Consequences of Hermeneutics, eds. Jeff Malpas and Santiago Zabala. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2010).
• "La deduzione ermeneutica" in Tropos. Rivista di ermeneutica e critica filosofica, n.1 (2009), pp. 127-139.
  
• "The Primacy of Interpretation in Luigi Pareyson's Hermeneutics of Common Sense" in Philosophy Today, 49:4, Winter 2005.

• Luigi Pareyson, Truth and Interpretation. Forthcoming from SUNY Press.
  
• Gianni Vattimo, “The Political Outcome of Hermeneutics: To Politics Through Art and Religion” in Consequences of Hermeneutics, eds. Jeff Malpas and Santiago Zabala (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2010).
• Gaetano Chiurazzi, “The Condition of Hermeneutics: The Implicative Structure of Understanding” in Consequences of Hermeneutics, eds. Jeff Malpas and Santiago Zabala (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2010).
• Antonio Negri, "Sovereignty: That Divine Ministry of the Affairs of Earthly Life" in Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 9, 1, Winter 2008, in collaboration with Gabriele Fadini.
• Gianni Vattimo, "Introduction: 'Surtout Pas De Zèle'" in Common Knowledge, vol. 13, Issues 2-3, 2007.
• Weakening Philosophy: Festschrift in Honor of Professor Gianni Vattimo, Edited by Santiago Zabala. McGill Queen's University Press, 2007. Translator of the following essays:
• Giacomo Marramao, "Which Ontology After Metaphysics? Conversations with Gianni Vattimo and Richard Rorty," 77-86.
• Pier Aldo Rovatii, "Weak Thought 2004: A Tribute to Gianni Vattimo," 131-145.
• Paolo Flores D'Arcais, "Gianni Vattimo; or rather, Hermeneutics as the Primacy of Politics," 250-269.
• Carmello Dotolo, "The Hermeneutics of Christianity and Philosophical Responsibility," 348-368.
• Gianni Vattimo, "Conclusion: Metaphysics and Violence," 400-421.
  
• Donatella Di Cesare,"Stars and Constellations Between Gadamer and Derrida." Research in Phenomenology 34.
• Donatella Di Cesare, “Re-interpreting Hermeneutics: U-topias from the Continent,” in Philosophy Today, 49:4, Winter 2005.

• Review for Symposium, Vol. 13, no. 1, 2009. (Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Crossing the Borders of Ethics, Politics, and Religion, Eds. Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder, SUNY Press, 2008).

• "What is Orientation Eating? Food-Being and Eating-Being." Presented at Feast/Famine Colloquium. Food Studies Graduate Program, New York University (February 17, 2012).
• "Alienation, Appropriation and Eating Sustainably." Presented at "Agriculture Under the Big Sky" - Joint Meeting of ASFS and AFHVS with SAFN. University of Montana (June 10, 2011).
• "What is Orientation Eating?" Presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL). Tainan, Taiwan (May 24, 2011).
• "Hermeneutics, Science, and Reality." A Response to Gaetano Chiurazzi's "Truth is More than Reality." Presented at the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics (NASPH) annual meeting. Seattle University (September 18, 2010).
  
• “The Art of Consumption: Jacques Rancière on the Possibility of a Gastro-Aesthetic Education.” International Philosophical Seminar XIX, Kastelruth, Italy (July 5, 2010).
• “Biopolitics and the False Debate over Genetically Modified Organisms.” Presented at “Food in Bloom: Cross Pollination and Cultivation of Food Systems, Cultures and Methods.” Joint meeting of ASFS and AFHVS with SAFN. University of Indiana (June 4, 2010).
• “In the Moment’s Opening: Ugo Perone’s Timely Biopolitics.” Presented as part of the invited panel discussion, “Encountering Italian Philosophy: The Thought of Ugo Perone,” at the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, London, ON (October 17, 2009).
• “Consumer as Homo Sacer: Exile in the Marketplace.” International Philosophical Seminar XVIII, Kastelruth, Italy (July 2, 2009).
• “Sovereignty and the Bio-Politics of Eating.” Presented at the Appignani Bioethics Center Conference, “Food, Famine and Future Technologies: Ethical Dilemmas in a Hungry World.” The United Nations, New York, NY (May 22, 2009).
• “The Forgotten Lineage of Hermeneutics: Critique, Deduction, and Principle Formation.” Presented at the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics (NASPH) annual meeting. Chicago, IL (September 26, 2008).
• "Luigi Pareyson and the Vindication of Truth."
  Lebanon Valley College Faculty Research Colloquium, (February 6, 2008).
• "Towards a Hermeneutics of Disjunction: Part II."
  Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, Hamilton, ON (October 6, 2007).
• “Pushing through the Paradox: On the Hermeneutics of Origins.” International Philosophical Seminar XVII, Kastelruth, Italy (July 3, 2007).
• “La Deduzione Ermeneutica." Invited speaker, Università di Torino, Italy (June 14, 2007).
• "Putting the 'or' back into the World Politics: Towards a Hermeneutics of Disjunction."
  International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Nicosia, Cyprus (June 6, 2007).
• "Towards Interpretation: The Leap from Dialectic to Phronesis in Heidegger's Early Work."
  A Response to Anna Pia Ruoppo's "From Hegel to Aristotle: Horizon and Limits of the Practical Dimension of Martin Heidegger's Thought." 41st North American Heidegger Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL (May 5, 2007).
• “An Evening with Gianni Vattimo: A conversation on democracy, religion, and nihilism.” Public interview conducted for the Lebanon Valley College Colloquium, “Democracy and its Discontents” (April 25, 2007).
• "Hermeneutic Deduction." Invited speaker, Duquesne University Department of Philosophy (April 13, 2007).
• “How Not To Lie About History: Kantian Critique between Scylla, Charybdis and Derrida.” Symposium on “Justice, Law and Freedom: Between Derrida and Kant” at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) in Freiburg, Germany (June 9, 2006).
• "Hermeneutics between dogmatism and skepticism: Vattimo as a student of Pareyson,"
  Close Encounter with Gianni Vattimo and the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Helsinki, Finland (June 5, 2005).
• “Pensieri Deboli: The Philosophical Legacies of Torino.” Invited speaker for Oakton Community College “Cultures Week”, DesPlaines, IL (March 8, 2005).
• "Public Identities, Kantian Ideals and the Critique of Systemic Hegemony."
  Radical Philosophy Association National Conference, Washington D.C. (Nov. 5, 2004).
• “Utopias of Common Sense.” Re-Interpreting the Continent: Contemporary Italian Philosophy in America. DePaul University, Chicago, IL (Oct. 1, 2004).
• "Kant and the He-Goat: The Truth of Transcendental Logic."
  Manfred Frings Graduate Student Colloquium, DePaul University, Chicago, IL (February 20, 2004).
• "Levinas and Pareyson as Interpreters of the Other."
  University of Chicago Graduate Student Ethics Conference, Chicago IL (April 4-5, 2003).
• "Sound and Fury, Signifying No-thing: Reading Ricoeur's Ethics through King Lear."
  A response for Pr. David Pellauer's Faculty Research Seminar, DePaul University (May 2002).
• "In Dialogue with Myth: Gilgamesh and the Nihilistic Vocation." DePaul University Graduate Student Colloquium, Chicago, IL (May 2000).