ABSTRACT
Giuseppe Modica's book, Una verità per me. Itinerari kierkegaardiani, published by Vita e Pensiero in 2007, presents the outcome of a systematic reorganization of nine essays the author wrote between 1995 and 2007. As Modica maintains in his Introduction, this work assumes the religious dimension of Kierkegaardian discourse on a level where its distinction from the existential dimension is not yet completed. With this statement the author actually reveals that he belongs to the Italian Catholic reception of Kierkegaard's thought. In the first section, Modica juxtaposes logocentric thought, that is, the originarian presumption of philosophy, with Socratic logos. In the second section, the author offers a two-sided sketch of the category of singularity, concentrating first on four aesthetic figures. The third section, represents an important contribution to the Italian reception of Kierkegaard's ethics, which hitherto had been considerably neglected. In the fourth and final section of the book, Modica attends to the notion of alterity.
