Dialogues of love / Leone Ebreo ; translated by Cosmos Damian Bacich and Rossella Pescatori ; introduction and notes by Rossella Pescatori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

León, Hebreo, approximately 1460-

Contributor:

Pescatori, Rossella, 1971-

Bacich, Cosmos Damian

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library series.

Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library

Standardized Title:

Dialoghi d'amore. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Love--Philosophy.

Love.

Love--Early works to 1800.

Dialogues.

Physical Description:

xiv, 440 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2009]

Summary:

Leone's peculiar dialogue seems to be conceived and shaped in order to maintain a symbolic link to its content. Structurally speaking, this work is a veritable mise-en-scn̈e of philosophy, or, rather, a philosophical production that is manifested through the interaction that takes place between Philo and Sophia. ... Philo wants to gain access to the most profound knowledge through Sophia, who, however, being the rational side, resists the seductive speech of the lover and remains constantly out of reach. The work presents itself as an interactive entity that concretizes its content as Philo-Sophia. This philosophy materializes as a dynamic (and ever-changing) reality that is performed by the two voices in dialogue. The extraordinary game that interlaces form and content is deeply and inevitably reconnected to another fundamental theoretical key of the work: the 'sexual aspect of knowledge.' The Dialogues, in fact, promotes a type of knowledge for which the act of knowing comes to influences and transform not only the subject's consciousness but the object's as well. It is through this type of knowledge that subject and object are able to make a profound connection as they evolve simultaneously, each transforming the other.

Contents:

Dialogues of Love 23

1 On Love and Desire 25

2 On the Universality of Love 73

3 On the Origin of Love 165.

Notes:

Translation of: Dialoghi d'amore.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780802099105

0802099106

OCLC:

298135417

Publisher Number:

99935186179