Gian Alberto Farinella
L’IMMAGINE DEL PENSIERO – Nuova Edizione

Description

This book, according to the author, was born from a long frequentation of philosophical texts, from intense raids on scattered pages of poetry and literature, from thousands of hours of listening to music, from luminous journeys in the dark of cinemas and, last but not least, by nocturnal silences shaken by the dull din of the city. In a word, from the careless desire to say two or three things about the image through which thought crystallizes, without forgetting its sensitive and secret origin.
The intent is therefore to disjoint the themes and relationships that support the Western metaphysical system (nihilism, the outcome of Platonism, the question of the subject and truth, the role of sensation and perception, the link between being, truth and art, common sense and aisthesis), through the reading of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, keeping an eye on the hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, in the direction of another “Image of thought” that encounters the possibilities and metamorphoses of that event which is life.
The new edition is enriched with a chapter and an interlude, respectively dedicated to the figures of time and the spectacularization of existence.