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028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat no. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, New Delhi _c: 122274 _d: 6/12/2025
082			_a195 ESP
100			_aEsposito, Roberto.
245			_aLiving Thought _b: The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy. _c/Roberto Esposito.
260			_a, California _b: Stanford University Press _c, 2012.
300			_aviii, 277p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1741
520			_aThe work of contemporary Italian thinkers, what Roberto Esposito refers to as Italian Theory, is attracting increasing attention around the world. This book explores the reasons for its growing popularity, its distinguishing traits, and why people are turning to these authors for answers to real-world issues and problems. The approach he takes, in line with the keen historical consciousness of Italian thinkers themselves, is a historical one. He offers insights into the great "unphilosophical" philosophers of life—poets, painters, politicians and revolutionaries, film-makers and literary critics—who have made Italian thought, from its beginnings, an "impure" thought. People like Machiavelli, Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci were all compelled to fulfill important political roles in the societies of their times. No wonder they felt that the abstract vocabulary and concepts of pure philosophy were inadequate to express themselves. Similarly, artists such as Dante, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leopardi, or Pasolini all had to turn to other disciplines outside philosophy in order to discuss and grapple with the messy, constantly changing realities of their lives.
650			_aLiving Thought
650			_aPhilosophy
650			_aCultural Memory
700			_aRoberto Esposito.
942			_cBOOK
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