Modernist Idealism: Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature (Toronto Italian Studies) - Hardcover

Subialka, Michael J.

 
9781487528652: Modernist Idealism: Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature (Toronto Italian Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1487528655 ISBN 13: 9781487528652
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2021

Synopsis

Offering a new approach to the intersection of literature and philosophy, Modernist Idealism contends that certain models of idealist thought require artistic form for their full development and that modernism realizes philosophical idealism in aesthetic form. This comparative view of modernism employs tools from intellectual history, literary analysis, and philosophical critique, focusing on the Italian reception of German idealist thought from the mid-1800s to the Second World War.


Modernist Idealism intervenes in ongoing debates about the nineteenth- and twentieth-century resurgence of materialism and spiritualism, as well as the relation of decadent, avant-garde, and modernist production. Michael J. Subialka aims to open new discursive space for the philosophical study of modernist literary and visual culture, considering not only philosophical and literary texts but also early cinema. The author’s main contention is that, in various media and with sometimes radically different political and cultural aims, a host of modernist artists and thinkers can be seen as sharing in a project to realize idealist philosophical worldviews in aesthetic form.

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About the Author

Michael J. Subialka is an assistant professor of comparative literature and Italian at the University of California, Davis.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1487528655
ISBN 13 
9781487528652
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
400