Mario Vergani’s book Nascere. Una fenomenologia dell’esistenza is a great contribution to re-thinking finitude and the human condition in a phenomenological key. In the dialogue with Ver-gani two questions come to the fore. The first question concerns the semantic of the gift and its philosophical value for developing a phenomenology of birth. The second question pertains the nature of power and the critique to Arendt’s conception of this political category.
