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Author: Alice Gibson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350298654 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
Providing a comprehensive introduction to the work of pioneering poet-philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, Alice Gibson pushes his thought into new directions by investigating how his ethics and philosophy of nature offer means for understanding and taking responsibility for the environmental crisis. Through examination of the whole of Leopardi's oeuvre, from the Zibaldone to the poems he wrote towards the end of his life, this book disrupts the common image of Leopardi as a pessimist poet whose works contribute to the nihilistic tradition. The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi instead uncovers his forward-looking views on living in a multispecies world, in which humans live alongside other living beings in a delicate ecosystem that not only requires respect, but also instigates wonder. Bringing Leopardi's thought into dialogue with contemporary ecological theorists such as Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and Timothy Morton, Gibson reveals how a Leopardian ethics of solidarity, compassion and community is the guide we need today to reframe our relationship with nature.
Author: Alice Gibson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350298654 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
Providing a comprehensive introduction to the work of pioneering poet-philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, Alice Gibson pushes his thought into new directions by investigating how his ethics and philosophy of nature offer means for understanding and taking responsibility for the environmental crisis. Through examination of the whole of Leopardi's oeuvre, from the Zibaldone to the poems he wrote towards the end of his life, this book disrupts the common image of Leopardi as a pessimist poet whose works contribute to the nihilistic tradition. The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi instead uncovers his forward-looking views on living in a multispecies world, in which humans live alongside other living beings in a delicate ecosystem that not only requires respect, but also instigates wonder. Bringing Leopardi's thought into dialogue with contemporary ecological theorists such as Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and Timothy Morton, Gibson reveals how a Leopardian ethics of solidarity, compassion and community is the guide we need today to reframe our relationship with nature.
Author: Giacomo Leopardi Publisher: Alma Books ISBN: 0714548235 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
Alongside his monumental Notebooks and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy's greatest and best-loved poets, Giacomo Leopardi penned a number of fictional pieces, mostly in the form of gently humorous dialogues, in which he dealt with philosophical ideas and many of the metaphysical questions that preoccupied his restless spirit.First published in 1827 and here presented in a new translation by J.G. Nichols along with Thoughts, Leopardi's own selected pearls of wisdom and gems of social observation, this volume will enchant both those who are familiar with and those who are new to the works of Italy's last great polymath.
Author: Giacomo Leopardi Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231057066 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
Newly awakened interest in Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), arguably the greatest Italian poet since the Renaissance, has resulted in this project to translate a major portion of his works. This volume is the first of four which will encompass the great "Canti" (in bilingual text), selections from the poet's correspondence, a substantial portion of his enormous intellectual journal, the "Zibaldone," and the focus of the present volume, the "Operette morali." Originally planned as a set of dialogues in the manner of Lucian, the "Operette" is a compilation of brief, interrelated works on questions of moral philosphy. By means of numerous characters, and by means of a range of styles, Leopardi grapples with a theory of pleasure, the concepts of fame, the infinite, human happiness, the function of poetry, and other topics. In the poet's own opinion, the "Operette" represented his major philosophical speculation and ranked just below his "Canti."
Author: Giacomo Leopardi Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520341139 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 555
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This series is conceived as a library of bilingual editions of works chosen for their importance to Italian literature and to the international tradition of art and thought Italy has nurtured. In each volume an Italian text in an authoritative edition is paired with a new facing-page translation supplemented by explanatory notes and a selected bibliography. An introduction provides a historical and critical interpretation of the work. The scholars preparing these volumes hope through Biblioteca ltaliana to point a straight way to the Italian classics. GENERAL EDITOR: Louise George ClubbEDITORIAL BOARDPaul J. Alpers, Vittore BrancaGene Brucker, Fredi ChiappelliPhillip W. Damon, Robert M. DurlingGianfranco Folena, Lauro MartinesNicolas J. Perella
Author: Giacomo Leopardi Publisher: ISBN: 9781723991257 Category : Languages : en Pages : 187
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The Small Moral Works are placed in a particular period of Leopardi's life. They were written in the phase of "poetic silence", in which Leopardi did not compose poems (1824-1828). The work collects 24 prose (in the form of narration, discourse or dialogue) of short dimensions, very different in style and structure. This great variety of styles, however, corresponds to a great consistency in the themes: Mankind is on the periphery. (Dialogue between a Goblin and a Gnome, Copernicus). The centrality of man in the cosmos is a mere illusion: humanity could even disappear at any moment, and nobody would notice it. A mechanistic and materialistic vision. (Dialogue of Nature and an Icelander). There is no spiritual reality or any divine intervention: The world is born, exists and will cease, for pure material and mechanical causes. Man is not at the center of the projects of a saving God, therefore his destiny and his present reality is unhappiness.
Author: Alice Gibson
Author: Alice Gibson
Author: Giacomo Leopardi
Author: Giacomo Leopardi
Author: Giacomo Leopardi
Author: Giacomo Leopardi
Author: Giacomo Leopardi
Author: Daniela Bini
Author: Giacomo Leopardi
Author: Giacomo Leopardi
Author: Giacomo Leopardi