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Format: Häftad (Paperback)
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Italian List
Antal sidor: 275
Utgivningsdatum: 2025-10-21
Förlag: Seagull Books London Ltd
Översättare: Thomas Haskell Simpson
Dimensioner: 10 x 200 x 150 mm
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ISBN: 9781803094069

Name and Image

Name: Name and Image
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Author: Gianni Carchia
ISBN: 9781803094069

An Essay on Walter Benjamin

av Gianni Carchia

Häftad, Engelska, 2025-10-21

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An insightful study of Walter Benjamin, one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, by the Italian philosopher Gianni Carchia. Name and Image crystalizes Gianni Carchia's lifelong pursuit of the infinite philosophical object in the method and thought of one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century: Walter Benjamin. This intellectual biography touches upon the philosophy of language, historiography, aesthetics, temporality, and transcendental philosophy. The book has the singular distinction of being both Gianni Carchia's first and last work. In the spring of 1999, shortly before the resurgence of the disease that would lead to his death, Carchia began revising the graduate thesis he had defended at the University of Turin in 1971 with the title Truth and Language in the Young Walter Benjamin. At age twenty-four, the young scholar already demonstrated the incisive, axiomatic style of a master. The final version, retitled Name and Image, would become his testament. With a remarkable inversion, beginning and end seem to conjoin here in an authentically philosophical act, as though all the motifs of Carchia's late thought-the conception of philosophy as event and witness, critique of method, and messianic finality-resonated together for the first time in this youthful text. The physiognomy of Benjamin that opens the work is the self-portrait of a figure who stands out ever more as one of the most just voices in twentieth-century Italian philosophy.

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Gianni Carchia (1947-2000) was one of the most important and original Italian philosophers of the past century. His research ranged from aesthetics to ancient philosophy, from anthropology to political philosophy. Thomas Haskell Simpson is associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University and a translator of many works from Italian.