The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi
A Philosophy for the Environmental Crisis
Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-29864-4 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-29864-4 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Alice Gibson completed a PhD in Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, UK. She is currently Research Publications Officer at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
Introduction
Part I: Vices, Trifles, and Illusions
1. Problematizing Works
2. Barbarous Times in the Zibaldone
3. The General Spirit of the Age in the Operette
4. Exonerating Humanity
Part II: Dreams and Vision
5. A Philosophy that Aims to Cure in the Canti
6. The Property of Works of Genius: Should Laughter or Pity Prevail?
7. The Limits of Leopardi’s Thought
8. Resignifying Leopardi Today
Conclusion: Planetary Solidarity
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.11.2023 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-29864-6 / 1350298646 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-29864-4 / 9781350298644 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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