Book ID: CBB739807929

Nietzsche e l'astronomia del XIX secolo (2015)

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Irene Treccani (Author)


Il Poligrafo


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 386 pp.
Language: Italian

"Imparate a leggermi bene", aveva ammonito Nietzsche. E imparare a leggerlo bene, a scoprire il significato recondito delle sue metafore astrali, il senso nascosto dietro alle sue poetiche immagini celesti è proprio lo scopo di questo libro. L’analisi storico-astronomica del contesto scientifico-culturale ottocentesco, la fedele ricostruzione delle letture di Nietzsche e l’indagine ermeneutica della sua abbondante metaforica celeste accompagnano il lettore alla scoperta del costituirsi del suo filosofare, a quella zona di pensiero che, procedendo dai risultati sperimentali della scienza dell’epoca, giunge, con esiti del tutto innovativi, a un campo diverso da quello d’origine: la riflessione filosofica. L’affinità tra Nietzsche e il contesto astronomico ottocentesco viene qui colta in una molteplicità di aspetti. La visione antiantropocentrica e a-finalistica, l’immagine della luce come metafora di una verità nuova e la proclamazione dell’inesistenza di un punto di vista assoluto vengono esplorate nelle loro analogie con le verità del pensiero scientifico moderno, dall’eliocentrismo copernicano alla propagazione della luce a velocità finita, per giungere infine al movimento dell’intero sistema solare. Da tale indagine la riflessione nietzschiana ne esce arricchita: sul piano storico acquista una maggiore profondità, su quello filosofico una nuova, crescente complessità. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… "Learn to read me well," Nietzsche admonished. And learning to read it well, to discover the hidden meaning of its astral metaphors, the hidden meaning behind its poetic celestial images, is precisely the purpose of this book. The historical-astronomical analysis of the nineteenth-century scientific-cultural context, the faithful reconstruction of Nietzsche's readings and the hermeneutic investigation of his abundant celestial metaphor accompany the reader in the discovery of the constitution of his philosophy, to that area of ​​thought which, proceeding from experimental results of the science of the time, reaches, with completely innovative results, a field different from that of origin: philosophical reflection. The affinity between Nietzsche and the nineteenth-century astronomical context is captured here in a multiplicity of aspects. The anthropocentric and a-finalistic vision, the image of light as a metaphor for a new truth and the proclamation of the non-existence of an absolute point of view are explored in their analogies with the truths of modern scientific thought, from Copernican heliocentrism to propagation of light at finite speed, to finally reach the movement of the entire solar system. From this investigation Nietzschean reflection emerges enriched: on the historical level it acquires greater depth, on the philosophical one a new, growing complexity.]

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Authors & Contributors
Tassanee Alleau
Di Giacomo, Giuseppe
Moynihan, Thomas
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Grant, Iain Hamilton
Kathryn L. Smithies
Concepts
Science and literature
Science and culture
Metaphors; analogies
Philosophy
Astronomy
Biology
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
Ancient
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Rome (Italy)
Great Britain
England
Netherlands
Germany
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