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Is poetry still relevant today, or is it merely a dwindling
historical art? How have poets of the recent past dealt with
challenges to poetics? Seeking to chart the poetic act in a period
not so much hostile as indifferent to poetry, Language at the
Boundaries outlines spaces where poetry and poetics emerge in
migration, translation, world literature, canon formation, and the
history of science and technology. One can only come so close to
fully possessing or explaining everything about the poetic act, and
this book grapples with these limits by perusing, analyzing,
deconstructing, and reconstructing creativity, implementing
different approaches in doing so. Peter Carravetta consolidates
historical epistemological positions that have accrued over the
last several decades, some spurred by the modernism/postmodernism
debate, and unpacks their differences--juxtaposing Vico with
Heidegger and applying the approaches of translation studies,
decolonization, indigeneity, committed literature, and critical
race theory, among others. What emerges is a defense and theory of
poetics in the contemporary world, engaging the topic in a
dialectic mode and seeking grounds of agreement.
Literary Nonfiction. Italian Studies. Bordighera Press announces
the publication of DISCOURSE BOUNDARY CREATION (LOGOS TOPOS
POIESIS) edited by Peter Carravetta. This publication includes
proceedings from a Forum in Italian American Criticism (FIAC)
conference entitled "Logos, Nomos, Poiesis: A Festschrift," in
honor of Paolo Valesio on his 70th birthday. These proceedings
include essays and testimonials by Gian Maria Annovi, Teodolinda
Barolini, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Patrizio
Ceccagnoli, Andrea Ciccarelli, Luigi Fontanella, Erin Larkin,
Ernesto Livorni, Mario Moroni, Alessandro Polcri, Lucia Re,
Graziella Sidoli, and Laura Wittman.
Is poetry still relevant today, or is it merely a dwindling
historical art? How have poets of the recent past dealt with
challenges to poetics? Seeking to chart the poetic act in a period
not so much hostile as indifferent to poetry, Language at the
Boundaries outlines spaces where poetry and poetics emerge in
migration, translation, world literature, canon formation, and the
history of science and technology. One can only come so close to
fully possessing or explaining everything about the poetic act, and
this book grapples with these limits by perusing, analyzing,
deconstructing, and reconstructing creativity, implementing
different approaches in doing so. Peter Carravetta consolidates
historical epistemological positions that have accrued over the
last several decades, some spurred by the modernism/postmodernism
debate, and unpacks their differences--juxtaposing Vico with
Heidegger and applying the approaches of translation studies,
decolonization, indigeneity, committed literature, and critical
race theory, among others. What emerges is a defense and theory of
poetics in the contemporary world, engaging the topic in a
dialectic mode and seeking grounds of agreement.
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Weak Thought (Hardcover)
Gianni Vattimo, Pier Aldo Rovatti; Translated by Peter Carravetta; Introduction by Peter Carravetta
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R1,968
Discovery Miles 19 680
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Heralding the beginning of the philosophical dialogue on the
concept for which Gianni Vattimo would become best known (and
coining its name), this groundbreaking 1983 collection includes
foundational essays by Vattimo and Pier Aldo Rovatti, along with
original contributions by nine other Italian philosophers
influenced by and working within the authors framework.
Dissatisfied with the responses to nineteenth- and
twentieth-century European philosophy offered by Marxism,
deconstruction, and poststructuralism, Vattimo found in the
nihilism of Friedrich Nietzsche an important context within which
to take up the hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg
Gadamer. The idea of weak thought sketched by Vattimo and Rovatti
emphasizes a way of understanding the role of philosophy based on
language, interpretation, and limits rather than on metaphysical
and epistemological certainties without falling into relativism. To
the first English-language edition of this volume, translator Peter
Carravetta adds an extensive critical introduction, providing an
overview of weak thought and taking stock of its philosophical
trajectory over more than a quarter century."
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