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The Wounds of Possibility
Bringing together writers, translators, poets, and leading scholars of cultural theory, literary theory, comparative literature, philosophy, history, political science, music studies, and education, The Wounds of Possibility aims to offer an in-depth and wide-ranging study of George Steiner’s imposing body of work. This book is a timely volume of important essays on one of the most provocative thinkers, critics, and philosophers now writing. During an era in which the question of the ethical and of the status of the work of art, and its relation to the theological dimension, has returned with renewed urgency, Steiner’s work provides rich resources for reflection and it is hoped that the volume will stand on its own as a rich, nuanced accompaniment to the reading of Steiner’s work. With their broad range of thematic foci, theoretical approaches, and stunning constellations of quoted material from different backgrounds, all the essays in the book try to reflect upon the relation between human identity and language, ethics and literature, philosophy and art, and they all offer what we regard as being the most comprehensive engagement with Steiner’s work to date.
Analyzing Opera
Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner explores the latest developments in opera analysis by considering, side by side, the works of the two greatest opera composers of the nineteenth century. Although the juxtaposition is not new, comparative studies have tended to view these masters as radically different both as musicians and as musical dramatists. Wagner and his "symphonic opera" set against Verdi "the melodist" is one of many familiar antitheses, and it serves to highlight the particular terms from which comparisons are often made. In this book some of the leading and most innovative music scholars challenge this view, suggesting that as we become more distant from the nineteenth century, we...
New Approaches to Naples c.1500-c.1800
Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and as such an appropriate target of attempts, by Catholic missionaries and others, to ’civilize’ the city. Historiographically bypassed in favour of Venice, Florence and Rome, Naples is frequently seen as emblematic of the cultural and political decline in the Italian peninsula and as epitomizing the problems of southern Italy. Yet, as this volume makes plain, such views blind us to some of its most extraordinary qualities, and limit our understanding, not only of one of the world's great capital cities, but also of the wider social, cultural and political dynamics of ea...
Dante's Cure
As much the story of a young doctor finding his own path in a controversial new world of anti-psychotic drugs, this is the true account of a successful therapeutic process that took place six days a week, for seven years.
Terre di mezzo
La drammatica natura degli eventi politici di questi ultimi anni mostra come i nodi cruciali che stanno ridisegnando il mondo contemporaneo si palesino lungo quattro essenziali linee di frattura, formatesi nel corso di molti decenni e riemerse prepotentemente dopo il 2000: il differenziale di contemporaneità economica e tecnologica; le dinamiche geopolitiche dell’energia verde e quelle del petrolio e del gas; il ritorno degli “Stati-civiltà” o neo-imperi; la riaffermazione delle identità e della politica identitaria. Attraverso l’analisi delle intersezioni concettuali e pratiche tra queste direttive, per come si sono configurate nei primi decenni del nostro secolo, Adriana Castagn...
