TY  - BOOK
AU  - Emanuela Cervato
PY  - 2017
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781787075603
TI  - A System That Excludes All Systems
T2  - Giacomo Leopardi's «Zibaldone di pensieri»
DO  - 10.3726/b11798
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109851
N2  - For many decades Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone di pensieri has been seen as a collection of temporary thoughts and impressions whose final expression is to be found in the published poems (the Canti) and satirical dialogues (the Operette morali). The conceptual consistency of the work was thereby denied, privileging Leopardi the poet over Leopardi the thinker. This book shows that such a perceived lack of coherence is merely illusory. The Zibaldone is drawn together by an intricate web of references centring around topics such as the ambivalent concept of nature; the Heraclitean «union of opposites» (ancients and moderns, poetry and philosophy, reason and imagination); and the tension between the desire for happiness and the impossibility of its realization. Largely unknown to the English-speaking world until its translation in 2013, the Zibaldone is Leopardi’s intellectual diary, the place where dialogue with the ancient classical traditions evolves into modern encyclopaedism and what has been described as «thought in movement». It establishes Leopardi as one of the most original and radical thinkers of the nineteenth century.
KW  - Leopardi’s Zibaldone, Italian Studies, thought in movement, systematic character vis-à-vis its fragmentary and non-linear structure, readers’ active role, fragmentary writing, epistemology, system, Sensationalism, Empiricism, Ethics, Trattato delle passioni, Manuale di filosofia pratica, Relativism, Labyrinth, hypertext, rhizome
LA  - English
ER  -