PETER CARRAVETTA is professor of philosophy at SUNY/Stony Brook. He has published ten books in methods of critique, cultural criticism and philosophy, including, Prefaces to the Diaphora: Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity (1991), The Elusive Hermes: Method, Discourse, Interpreting (2012), After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture (2017) and Language at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Literature, and the Poetics of Culture (2021). He is also the author of eight books of poetry, including The Sun and Other Things (1997), and The Other Lives (2014). He is the founding editor of DIFFERENTIA review of italian thought (9 vols. 1986-1999) and translator of G. Vattimo & P. A. Rovatti’s Weak Thought (2012).