My contribution is a review of the Proceedings of the V Meeting of Italian-American Philosophy
Autonomy of Reason? Autonomie der Vernunft? (Riccardo Dottori ed., Yearbook of
Philosophical Hermeneutics I/2009, Lit Verlag, Münster) that toke place in Rome (October
2007). American and European philosophers established a fruitful dialog aiming to show
the complexity of the notion of “Reason” and, in particular, the possibility of its “Autonomy”.
As we will see in the following discussion, human reason seems to be characterized by
somewhat vague borders.
