Introduction

Proteus the philosopher, or reading Saramago as a lover of Wisdom

Carlo Salzani, Kristóf Vanhoutte

1-18

Correcting history

apocalypticism, messianism and Saramago's philosophy of history

Carlo Salzani

19-37

The "dark side" of history

Saramago, Foucault, and synchronic history

Maria P. Fersini

39-59

José Saramago's "magical" historical materialism

André Santos Campos

61-80

Some remarks on a phenomenological interpretation of Saramago's cave

Giuseppe Menditto

81-99

Death by representation

in law, in literature, and in that space between

Maria Aristodemou

101-120

A contemporary midrash

Saramago's re-telling of the "sacrifice of isaac"

Federico Dal Bo

121-142

Female representations in José Saramago

a space for oppositional discourses from the canonical gospels to the gospel according to jesus Christ

Camila Carvalho Santiago

143-161

Saramago's axiology of gender difference

Ana P. Ferreira

163-191

Saramago's dogs

for an inclusive humanism

Carlo Salzani, Kristóf Vanhoutte

193-210

Traumatic counterfactuals

David Jenkins

211-232

Bye bye Bartleby and Hello seeing, or on the silence and the actualization to do … not

Kristóf Vanhoutte

233-252