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The book by Mario Vergani, Nascita. Una fenomenologia dell’esistenza is in contrast with the philosophical tradition, because it thinks of the human condition not starting from the relation-ship that man has with death, but from birth; in this way, it shows that birth leaves significant traces in the fundamental dimensions of existence. The knowledge of birth is insufficient to adequately describe the meanings that birth assumes for existence; only a phenomenology of existence is able to do so, confronting the past that has never been present, which contains the inaccessible and in-appropriable secret of birth.

One of the characteristics of the global age, alongside the creation of a world market and the free circulation of goods and information, is a new impulse for migration processes. Huge masses of migrants move on Earth along winding and risky escape routes, pushed to move away from war and poverty, in search of better conditions of existence. We need to go back to thinking about the ambiguous status of the foreigner, oscillating between the figure of the enemy (hostis) and that of the guest (hospes). In our time, the foreigner who asks for hospitality poses a challenge to Nation-States that cannot be evaded by mere rejection-policies. In the general decline of the State-form and its functions, an irremediable contradiction is revealed, which takes the form of a real “world civil war” between the principles of State-sovereignty and national citizenship and the supranational principle of the right to migrate (ius migrandi), as a fundamental human right, to which a universal right to hospitality and citizenship should correspond. This later right shall be payable beyond the Nation-States’ borders. Keywords: Migrations, Foreigner, Guest, Hospitality, Nation-State, Bollettino Filosofico, V. 34 (2019): L’ALTRO, LO STRANIERO, L’OSPITE

From its very first steps, Derrida’s thought engages a close confrontation with Husserlian phenomenology in order to take distance from it. My thesis is that, in spite of a claimed “fidelity” to phenomenological method, Derridian thought of différance has as its own preferential critical target phenomenology itself, intended as thought of the living present, of presence and of evidence. Starting from this thesis, deconstruction may be read first of all as deconstruction of phenomenology. It shows the irreducible character of the “non-phenomenological,” which every phenomenology tries to conceal as its own limit, as testified by Derrida’s analysis of gift and secret. These belong to the thought of sur-vival, which reveals death – the non-phenomenological par excellence – in the heart of life., Bollettino Filosofico, Vol 33 (2018): Ripensare la fenomenologia, con e oltre