Download or read book The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi written by Alice Gibson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Works of Giacomo Leopardi The Moral essays written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Operette Morali written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-12-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Moral Fables written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Operette Morali written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moral Essays written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by . This book was released on 1983-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Essays and Dialogues of Giacomo Leopardi written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flower of the Desert written by Antonio Negri and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound meditation on Leopardis art and thought as well as a reframing and reassertion of Negris own philosophical and political project of liberation. Antonio Negri, one of Italys most influential and controversial contemporary philosophers, offers in this book a radical new interpretation of the nineteenth-century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. For Negri, Leopardi is not the bitter, idealistic individualist of conventional literary history, but rather a profoundly materialist thinker who sees human solidarity as the only possible solution to the catastrophes of history and politics. Negri traces Leopardis resistance to the transcendental idealism of Kant and Hegel, with its emphasis on reasons power to resolve real antagonisms into abstract syntheses, and his gradual development of a sophisticated poetic materialism focused on the constructive power of the imagination and its true illusions. Like Nietzsche (who admired him), Leopardi provides an alternative to modernity within modernity, expressing a force of rupture and recompositiona uniquely Italian onethat is as relevant now as it was in the nineteenth century, and which connects to the theory of Empire as the political constitution of the present that Negri has elaborated in collaboration with Michael Hardt.
Download or read book Thoughts written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admired for the poetical heights of his Canti, the gentle wit of his prose dialogues and the soul-searching questionings of his Zibaldone (Notebooks), Leopardi was also an acute social commentator and a sharp dissector of the human mind. Thoughts - a collection of philosophical and critical observations put together for publication by Leopardi himself shortly before his death in 1837 - shows a more light-hearted side to Leopardi's personality, and offers both those who are familiar with and those who are new to his works a fresh insight into the thought processes and the worldview of Italy's last great polymath.
Download or read book Mapping Leopardi written by Emanuela Cervato and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you curious about the private laboratory of Giacomo Leopardi, Italy’s greatest modern lyrical poet? Interested in using expert maps to explore it, while deepening your acquaintance with one of the most creative materialist thinkers? This collection of essays makes very original use of the new translation of Leopardi’s Zibaldone di pensieri and investigates its connections to all his other works. Whether your primary interest lies in Italian literature and criticism, linguistics and poetics, the origins of genres such as the fantastic, or in philosophical queries regarding materialism and hedonism, this collection offers original research that will challenge the reader to view this outstanding intellectual in a new light. Offering some of the earliest reflections against anthropocentrism, championing the artist’s interest in the natural sciences, and questioning humanity’s purpose(s) in this world, Leopardi’s work is presented in this volume as an indispensable tool to understand the complexity of Italy’s cultural transformations between the 18th and the 19th centuries.
Download or read book The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Moral Works Annotated written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Giacomo Leopardi s Search for a Common Life Through Poetry written by Frank Rosengarten and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the life of Giacomo Leopardi by examining four different yet interrelated aspects: his social origins and class in relation to his evolving conception of nobility; the mixture of idealism and misogynism in his attitude toward women and in his conception of love; his poems and prose on the theme of Italian independence; and his philosophical materialism as expressed in his poetry, intellectual diary, and essays. Frank Rosengarten pays particular attention to the ways in which the thought of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche illuminates Leopardi's world view. He also devotes a section of the book to the different personal, moral, and philological components of Leopardi's humanism. Throughout, he maintains a sharp focus on the connections between Leopardi's life and the historical period in which he lived. The major themes and human concerns expressed in Leopardi's writings relate to his life experiences and to the historical period in which he lived. Of central interest are nobility and love, since Leopardi's perception of these two themes evolved and changed as he acquired a more general and universal conception of life. This fascinating combination of classical and modern perspectives on life and literature is highlighted throughout the book.
Download or read book Essays and Dialogues of Giacomo Leopardi With Biographical Sketch 1882 written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Passions written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge—Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I don’t mean just by an old enemy, but anyone, or even (especially when in a really bad mood) by a friend.—from Passions The extraordinary quality of Giacomo Leopardi’s writing and the innovative nature of his thought were never fully recognized in his lifetime. Zibaldone, his 4,500-page intellectual diary—a vast collection of thoughts on philosophy, civilization, literary criticism, linguistics, humankind and its vanities, and other varied topics—remained unpublished until more than a half-century after his death. But shortly before he died, Leopardi began to organize a small, thematic collection of his writings in an attempt to give structure and system to his philosophical musings. Now freshly translated into English by master translator, novelist, and critic Tim Parks, Leopardi’s Passions presents 164 entries reflecting the full breadth of human passion. The volume offers a fascinating introduction to Leopardi’s arguments and insights, as well as a glimpse of the concerns of thinkers to come, among them Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Wittgenstein, Gadda, and Beckett.
Download or read book Essays and Dialogues written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and Dialogues : Dialogues and Fictional Essays by Giacomo Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi: This collection brings together the insightful essays and dialogues of Giacomo Leopardi, an Italian philosopher, poet, and essayist. Leopardi's works explore a wide range of topics, including philosophy, literature, art, and human nature. Through his eloquent and thought-provoking prose, Leopardi invites readers to engage with profound ideas and reflections on the human condition. Key Aspects of the Book "Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi": Philosophical Exploration: Leopardi's essays delve into existential questions and philosophical themes, challenging readers to ponder the complexities of life. Humanistic Perspective: The author's keen observations of human nature and society offer insights into the cultural and intellectual milieu of his time. Literary Critique: Leopardi's critical essays and dialogues engage with the works of other writers and thinkers, contributing to the broader discourse on literature and the arts. Giacomo Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, and scholar, born in 1798. He is considered one of the most significant literary figures of the 19th century. Leopardi's works reflect the intellectual and cultural climate of his time, grappling with the philosophical and existential concerns of Romanticism. His poetry and prose showcase a deep awareness of the human condition, combining melancholic reflection with profound intellectual inquiry. Leopardi's contributions to Italian literature and philosophical thought have solidified his place as a revered figure in the literary canon.
Download or read book The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi written by Giacomo Leopardi and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi" by Giacomo Leopardi is a collection of works by one of Italy's most celebrated poets. Leopardi's poetry is renowned for its profound reflection on existential themes, human suffering, and the search for meaning. His verse often explores themes of melancholy, nature, and the passage of time. Leopardi's most famous poems include "L'infinito" (The Infinite), which expresses the vastness of the universe and the limits of human understanding, and "A Silvia", a poignant elegy for a lost love. His works are marked by their lyrical beauty and philosophical depth, revealing his inner struggles and contemplations about life and the human condition. "The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi" offers readers a window into the emotional and intellectual world of one of the greatest Italian poets, whose work has had a lasting influence on modern literature and continues to resonate with readers today.
