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Flower of the desert : Giacomo Leopardi's poetic ontology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Negri, Antonio, 1933- (Author)
Other Authors: Murphy, Timothy S., 1964- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
Series:SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy.
Subjects:
Leopardi, Giacomo, > 1798-1837 > Philosophy.
Leopardi, Giacomo, > 1798-1837.
Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Translator's note and acknowledgements
  • Translator's introduction: Leopardi and us
  • Preface to the French translation
  • Preface to the first edition: the European Leopardi
  • The catastrophe of memory
  • Time of the dialectic
  • Experimenting with the infinite
  • The critical question
  • The web of sense
  • Solid nothingness
  • Pain and desire
  • Imagining
  • Poetics of true being
  • Metaphysics of morals
  • The sense of true being
  • Grasping nothingness
  • Dialects of illusion
  • Irony, or, concerning the psyche
  • Deception, or, concerning knowledge
  • Sarcasm, or, concerning politics
  • A lyric Machiavelli
  • The event of critique
  • Ethics as foundation
  • Materialism and poetry.