This volume is devoted to one of the central concepts in Giacomo Leopardi’s theoretical and poetic universe: imagination. To investigate imagination is, in fact, to examine its relationship with philosophy and poetry, love, memory, imitation, and the inner life, as well as with vision and pictorial representation, and with the practical capacity to act morally and politically. The essays collected here, edited by Ludovica Boi and Sebastian Schwibach, focus not only on Leopardi’s texts, with the …
Read moreThis volume is devoted to one of the central concepts in Giacomo Leopardi’s theoretical and poetic universe: imagination. To investigate imagination is, in fact, to examine its relationship with philosophy and poetry, love, memory, imitation, and the inner life, as well as with vision and pictorial representation, and with the practical capacity to act morally and politically. The essays collected here, edited by Ludovica Boi and Sebastian Schwibach, focus not only on Leopardi’s texts, with the aim of contributing to a more precise and historically grounded understanding of his thought, but also on interpreters who have so far received little scholarly attention — Paolo Marzolo, Giovanni Vailati, and Aldo Capitini — or who are examined here from new perspectives, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Giuseppe Rensi, Giovanni Gentile, Piero Bigongiari, Toni Negri, and Emanuele Severino. In this way, the volume enriches the history of philosophical interpretations of Leopardi.