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Author Negri, Antonio, 1933- author.

Title Flower of the desert : Giacomo Leopardi's poetic ontology / Antonio Negri ; translated by Timothy S. Murphy
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 416 pages)
Series Suny series in contemporary italian philosophy
SUNY 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
Notes Translated from the Italian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Leopardi, Giacomo, 1798-1837 -- Philosophy
SUBJECT Leopardi, Giacomo, 1798-1837 fast
Subject POETRY -- Continental European.
Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Murphy, Timothy S., 1964- translator.
ISBN 9781438458489
1438458487
Other Titles Lenta ginestra. English
Giacomo Leopardi's poetic ontology