Flower of the desert Giacomo Leopardi's poetic ontology / Antonio Negri ; translated by Timothy S. Murphy.

Author/creator Negri, Antonio
Other author Murphy, Timothy S., 1964-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAlbany : SUNY Press, 2015.
Description416 pages ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

Uniform titleLenta ginestra. English
Portion of title Giacomo Leopardi's poetic ontology
SeriesSuny series in contemporary italian philosophy
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014045876
ISBN9781438458472 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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