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Living Thought: The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy

Living Thought: The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy

Esposito, Roberto
Hanafi, Zakiya

Hardcover

Series: Cultural Memory in the Present

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0804781559
ISBN13: 9780804781558
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Dec 31 2012
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

The work of contemporary Italian thinkers, what Roberto Esposito refers to as Italian Theory, is attracting increasing attention around the world. This book explores the reasons for its growing popularity, its distinguishing traits, and why people are turning to these authors for answers to real-world issues and problems. The approach he takes, in line with the keen historical consciousness of Italian thinkers themselves, is a historical one. He offers insights into the great unphilosophical philosophers of life--poets, painters, politicians and revolutionaries, film-makers and literary critics--who have made Italian thought, from its beginnings, an impure thought. People like Machiavelli, Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci were all compelled to fulfill important political roles in the societies of their times. No wonder they felt that the abstract vocabulary and concepts of pure philosophy were inadequate to express themselves. Similarly, artists such as Dante, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leopardi, or Pasolini all had to turn to other disciplines outside philosophy in order to discuss and grapple with the messy, constantly changing realities of their lives.

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