The Ethics Of Giacomo Leopardi

Author : Alice Gibson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350298651

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The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi by Alice Gibson Pdf

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
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714548234

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Moral Fables by Giacomo Leopardi Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:955578552

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The Moral Essays by Giacomo Leopardi Pdf

Author : Giacomo Leopardi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1983-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231057075

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The Moral Essays by Giacomo Leopardi Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1723991252

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Small Moral Works (Annotated) by Giacomo Leopardi Pdf

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 : Giacomo Leopardi
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780714548265

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Thoughts by Giacomo Leopardi Pdf

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.

Author : Giacomo Leopardi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015014644937

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Moral Tales Operette Morali by Giacomo Leopardi Pdf

Author : Giacomo Leopardi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300186338

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Passions by Giacomo Leopardi Pdf

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.

Author : M. Pabst Battin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195135992

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The Ethics of Suicide by M. Pabst Battin Pdf

Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a fundamental human right? Whether it is called "suicide" or not, what role may a person play in the end of his or her own life? This collection of primary sources--the principal texts of ethical interest from major writers in western and nonwestern cultures, from the principal religious traditions, and from oral cultures where observer reports of traditional practices are available, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, the Arctic, and North and South America--facilitates exploration of many controversial practical issues: physician-assisted suicide or aid-in-dying; suicide in social or political protest; self-sacrifice and martyrdom; suicides of honor or loyalty; religious and ritual practices that lead to death, including sati or widow-burning, hara-kiri, and sallekhana, or fasting unto death; and suicide bombings, kamikaze missions, jihad, and other tactical and military suicides. This collection has no interest in taking sides in controversies about the ethics of suicide; rather, rather, it serves to expand the character of these debates, by showing them to be multi-dimensional, a complex and vital part of human ethical thought.

Author : Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788864534053

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Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett by Roberta Cauchi-Santoro Pdf

This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett’s monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a form of ablation of desire, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two authors’ oeuvres. Desire in Leopardi and Beckett is read as lying at the cusp between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, a desire that splits as much as it moulds the subject when called to address the Other (inspiring what Levinas terms ‘infinity’ as opposed to ‘totality,’ an infinity pitted against the nothingness crucial to pessimist and nihilist readings).

Author : Giacomo Leopardi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : OXFORD:N10733340

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Essays and Dialogues of Giacomo Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi Pdf

Author : Daniela Bini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015014643673

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A Fragrance from the Desert by Daniela Bini Pdf

Author : Giacomo Leopardi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175005276129

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Essays, Dialogues, and Thoughts (Operette Morali and Pensieri) of Giacomo Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi Pdf

Author : Giacomo Leopardi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520341135

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Operette Morali by Giacomo Leopardi Pdf

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 : Paolo L. Bernardini,Anita Virga
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443866705

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Voglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919 by Paolo L. Bernardini,Anita Virga Pdf

The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I. A number of writers, intellectuals, politicians, and artists wrote about suicide, and a very high number of people killed themselves, for several reasons. There were suicides for love and for homeland, suicides for despair, and suicides for ennui. In Italy, once a very traditional, Catholic country, where suicide was very uncommon and rarely treated as a subject of moral theology or literature, it suddenly became extremely widespread. This book provides the first interdisciplinary account of this phenomenon, taken from several angles, including literature, the arts, politics, society, and philosophy, as well as sociology. Its authors rank among the best international specialists on suicide, and the figures dealt with include major intellectuals and writers such as Ugo Foscolo, Emilio Salgari, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Giacomo Leopardi and Carlo Michelstaedter.