Ten Steps.
Title:
Ten Steps.
Author:
Camilletti, Fabio A.
ISBN:
9783035307092
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0
Physical Description:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Series:
Italian Modernities ; v.23
Italian Modernities
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Introduction (Fabio a. Camilletti and Paola Cori) -- Part I. Trans-National Crossings -- 1 The Making of Leopardi in English (Daniela Cerimonia) -- 2 Leopardi and the 'Zibaldone' into the New Millennium (Cosetta M. Veronese) -- Part II. Phenomena of Plurilingualism -- 3 Le idee e le parole. Il lessico straniero nello 'Zibaldone' (Roberto Lauro) -- 4 Philological Cosmopolitanism and European Nationalisms: The Background to Leopardi's Sanskrit References in the 'Zibaldone' (David Gibbons) -- Part III. Forms of Desire -- 5 'L'infinito' come condizione di un'esperienza possibile (Alessandra Aloisi) -- 6 'Time-image' in Poetry and Cinema: Leopardi and Antonioni (Paola Cori) -- 7 Leopardi avec Sade: Impotence and jouissance in 'La ginestra' (Fabio A. Camilletti) -- Part IV. Thinking and Performing in the Material World -- 8 Ending the Ancient Covenant: Leopardi and Molecular Biology (Emanuela Cervato) -- 9 Leopardi's Atheism and Religious Existentialism (Pamela Williams) -- 10 Giacomo Leopardi's 'Zibaldone' of (Queer) Thoughts (Luca Malici) -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
This book is a ten-step journey around the thought and poetry of the most sensitive Italian visionary of modernity, Giacomo Leopardi, whose contribution to Western thought has been acclaimed by admirers from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche to Benjamin. A variety of readings, moving between different disciplines and approaches - including film studies, psychoanalysis, and queer theory - shed new light on Leopardi's fascinating and at the same time epistemologically radical compound of poetic imagination and philosophical complexity. An advocate of an ultra-philosophy, which aims to negotiate the fracture opened in Western imagination by the irrecoverable loss of ancient «illusions<U8187>, Leopardi's thought seems more relevant than ever in the post-human era, offering an (un)timely meditation on desire, suffering, and imagination as the foundational features of humanity.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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