Translated by Bencivenga from the original Italian of his philosophical best-seller, this dialogue provides a comprehensive statement on the role of freedom in the realms of morality, psychology, metaphysics, and aesthetics. Bencivenga lets his four characters embrace a wide range of topics in their eclectic discussion, including considerations of quantum physics and deconstruction, the Gothic novel and detective stories, the structure of desire and the mathematics of infinity, penetrating comments on Freud, Raymond Chandler, and Wertverlufe, and a reasonable explanation of why Kants first...
Translated by Bencivenga from the original Italian of his philosophical best-seller, this dialogue provides a comprehensive statement on the role o...
Many of Edgar Allan Poe’s characters go through extreme, exhilarating, horrific experiences, and report on them. But how can we trust such reports, as under those circumstances they must have gone out of their minds? Through an all-encompassing, minute analysis of the entirety of Poe’s work, both his fiction and his nonfiction, this book argues that descending into a gigantic whirlpool, or being tormented by the Inquisition or by bloodthirsty natives, are only indications of what it takes to encounter others in everyday life. To understand them, we must in all cases go out of our minds,...
Many of Edgar Allan Poe’s characters go through extreme, exhilarating, horrific experiences, and report on them. But how can we trust such reports, ...
