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Geometries of Experience

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The first volume of essays in English on one of the most renowned contemporary Italian Philosophers.Remo Bodei (1938–2019) was one of Italy's most influential philosophers of the past half-century....
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The first volume of essays in English on one of the most renowned contemporary Italian Philosophers.

Remo Bodei (1938–2019) was one of Italy's most influential philosophers of the past half-century. His intellectual influence was wide-reaching as he guided the search for rational explanations of seemingly irrational phenomena and the philosophical underpinnings of poetry. Diverse both in their disciplinary approach and theoretical style, yet following a logical and coherent progression, the essays within Geometries of Experience begin with an exploration of Bodei's methodology followed by an analysis of his interest in the crisis of subjectivity in modern culture; his engagement with Spinoza, especially in his work Geometria delle passioni; his treatment of the body, framed as a "materialistic spirituality"; and his engagement with the relationship between philosophy and poetry. Overall, the book provides a rich and nuanced view of Bodei's intellectual legacy, demonstrating his distinctive approach to philosophy and literature.

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Price: £25.50
Pages: 186
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: SUNY Press
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
Publication Date: 02 June 2026
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9798855804584
Format: Paperback
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"This collection of essays in honor of Remo Bodei is not only a due tribute to one of the most important Italian philosophers and public intellectuals of the last fifty years; it is also an interesting and challenging presentation of new ideas, at the crossroad of philosophy and literature." — Franca d’Agostini, Università degli Studi di Milano

Introduction
Heather Renee Sottong

1. Things, Landscapes, and Wrath: The Philosophical Investigations According to Remo Bodei
Efraín Kristal

2. The Owl and the Mole: Remo Bodei's Hegel
Alfredo Ferrarin

3. Paura, speranza, felicità: Translating Remo Bodei's Geometry of the Passions
Gianpiero W. Doebler

4. Ordo amoris: Bodei on Augustine's Concept of Love and Beyond
Heather Renee Sottong

5. Things: Bodies: Moving: Reflections on the Thought of Remo Bodei 63
Peter Carravetta

6. When Sōma Is no Longer Sēma (When the Body Is no Longer a Grave): The Evolution of the Western Construction of the Body from Plato to Remo Bodei and Michel Foucault
Olimpia Pelosi

7. Hölderlin: A Tortured Soul Tragically Trapped Between a "Destitute Time" and Utopia
Christoph Wulf

8. Torquato Tasso and His "Virtù Eroica" as a Passion of the Will
Paolo Cherchi

9. Personal Destinies: On Genealogy and Crisis of Individuality
Andrea Borsari

List of Contributors
Index