Flower of the desert : Giacomo Leopardi's poetic ontology / Antonio Negri ; translated by Timothy S. Murphy.

Translated from the Italian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translator's note and acknowledgements -- Translator's introduction: Leopardi and us -- Preface to the French translation -- Preface to the first edition: the European Leopardi -- The catastrophe of memory -- Time of the dialectic -- Experimenting with the infinite -- The critical question -- The web of sense -- Solid nothingness -- Pain and desire -- Imagining -- Poetics of true being -- Metaphysics of morals -- The sense of true being -- Grasping nothingness -- Dialects of illusion -- Irony, or, concerning the psyche -- Deception, or, concerning knowledge -- Sarcasm, or, concerning politics -- A lyric Machiavelli -- The event of critique -- Ethics as foundation -- Materialism and poetry.

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