Jon R Snyder
Biographic Data
| ID | 691457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon R Snyder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon R |
| FAMILY NAME | Snyder |
| SIGNATURE | SNYDER J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Perfect Thoughts and il pensiero debole in advance
At the end of the 1980s the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo published two essays in exhibition catalogues issued in conjunction with museum shows of the work of maverick contemporary American artist James Lee Byars. Vattimo’s post-modern philosophy of il pensiero debole found common ground with the idiosyncratic conceptual and performance art practiced by Byars. In particular, the theses on the death or decline of art proposed in Vattimo’s 198…
“A Sea without Floor or Shore”
Discordant, dissonant, bizarre, alien, barbaric: from the outset, critics in Italy and Europe flung derogatory terms like these at the literary Baroque. Driving the furor was the emergence of practices of textual representation that swerved away from established literary-critical norms such as verisimilitude, decorum, unity, harmony, etc., as well as from the system of genres inherited from antiquity and reinterpreted in the Renaissance. In the s…
The Gut of Naples by Matilde Serao
Editor’s Introduction, CIS 14.2
This open-theme issue celebrates the centenary of two important figures in European and Italian culture in the second half of the twentieth century.Both Mario Merz and Michel de Certeau were born in 1925; in their youth both were involved in Resistance activities during World War Two; but from that point on
Introduction
In the course of its existence, California Italian Studies has published essays by living Italian philosophers who were luminaries in the field, including Umberto Eco and Franco Cassano (now both deceased). Somehow, however, the pages of this journal never until now have hosted any contribution by Gianni Vattimo, the great Italian philosopher who passed away in September 2023 at age 87. Vattimo was a beloved teacher, a mentor, and a friend to sev…
Myth and Fate of Secularization
Philosophical thought about the presence of myth in the contemporary world cannot be founded upon an essential or metaphysical definition of myth. This is due in part to the fact that the dream of philosophy as a rigorous science has been definitively ausgeträumt. More specifically, though, it is due to the fact that the theme of myth itself appears to us today in an uncertain light. No satisfactory theory of myth-one that would define its nature…
Matilde Serao, "Canituccia" (from Piccole anime, 1883)
Translated by Jon R. Snyder
From Igiaba Scego, La mia casa è dove sono (Home Is Where I Am), Milan
Translated by Jon R. Snyder and Megan Williamson
Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe
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Art and Truth in Baroque Italy, or the Case of Emanuele Tesauro’s Il cannocchiale aristotelico
Venice Incognito
James H. Johnson (2011), xiv+317 (University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, £27.95/$39.95). In Venice in 1736 ‘a “highly private and confidential colloquy” between Doge Alvi
Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
xxiii, 280 p. : 24 cm
Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and commoners alike-chose to practice the shadowy art of dissimulation. For men and women who could not risk revealing their inner lives to those around them, this art of incomm…
Poétique du secret
Arnaud Tripet. Poétique du secret: Paradoxes et maniérisme. Études et Essais sur la Renaissance 72. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2007. 236 pp. index. illus. bibl. €54. ISBN: 978–2–7453–1445–1. - Volume 61 Issue 3
"Renaissance" Talk
Stanley Stewart. “Renaissance” Talk: Ordinary Language and the Mystique of Critical Problems. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1997. xviii + 306 pp. 21.50 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8207-0273-0 (cl); ISBN: 0-8207-0274-9 (pbk). - Volume 52 Issue 3
La Sottigliezza del Disputare. Teorie Degli Stili e Teorie dei Generi in Età Rinascimentale e nel Tasso
Hermann Grosser. La sottigliezza del disputare. Teorie degli stili e teorie deigeneri in eta rinascimentale e nel Tasso. (Pubblicazioni della Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Milano, 149; Sezione a cura dell'Istituto di Filologia moderna, 19.) Florence: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1992. xiii + 328 pp. L 62,000. - Volume 48 Issue 1
The End of Modernity
Gianni Vattimo reexamines the roots of modernism and postmodernism in Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger. Exploring the links between concepts of nihilism and destiny in nineteenth-century humanism, Vattimo follows these trends in aesthetic and scientific theory from Benjamin to Bloch, Ricoeur, and Kuhn
Writing the Scene of Speaking
1. The problem of dialogue in the late Italian Renaissance 2. Putting questions (in)to language: Sigonio's theory 3. Writing under pressure: Speroni and the dialogical mask 4. The reasons for asking: Castelvetro and Tasso on philosophy and fiction 5. Illusions of difference: the poetics and pragmatics of dialogue after Tasso Notes Selected list of works consulted Index
Attilio Calzavara
Myth and the Fate of Secularization
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Myth and the Fate of Secularization
Attilio Calzavara
The End of Modernity
Gianni Vattimo reexamines the roots of modernism and postmodernism in Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Heidegger. Exploring the links between concepts of nihilism and destiny in nineteenth-century humanism, Vattimo follows these trends in aesthetic and scientific theory from Benjamin to Bloch, Ricoeur, and Kuhn
Writing the Scene of Speaking
1. The problem of dialogue in the late Italian Renaissance 2. Putting questions (in)to language: Sigonio's theory 3. Writing under pressure: Speroni and the dialogical mask 4. The reasons for asking: Castelvetro and Tasso on philosophy and fiction 5. Illusions of difference: the poetics and pragmatics of dialogue after Tasso Notes Selected list of works consulted Index
La Sottigliezza del Disputare. Teorie Degli Stili e Teorie dei Generi in Età Rinascimentale e nel Tasso
Hermann Grosser. La sottigliezza del disputare. Teorie degli stili e teorie deigeneri in eta rinascimentale e nel Tasso. (Pubblicazioni della Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Milano, 149; Sezione a cura dell'Istituto di Filologia moderna, 19.) Florence: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1992. xiii + 328 pp. L 62,000. - Volume 48 Issue 1
"Renaissance" Talk
Stanley Stewart. “Renaissance” Talk: Ordinary Language and the Mystique of Critical Problems. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1997. xviii + 306 pp. 21.50 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8207-0273-0 (cl); ISBN: 0-8207-0274-9 (pbk). - Volume 52 Issue 3
Poétique du secret
Arnaud Tripet. Poétique du secret: Paradoxes et maniérisme. Études et Essais sur la Renaissance 72. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2007. 236 pp. index. illus. bibl. €54. ISBN: 978–2–7453–1445–1. - Volume 61 Issue 3
Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
xxiii, 280 p. : 24 cm
Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and commoners alike-chose to practice the shadowy art of dissimulation. For men and women who could not risk revealing their inner lives to those around them, this art of incomm…
Venice Incognito
James H. Johnson (2011), xiv+317 (University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, £27.95/$39.95). In Venice in 1736 ‘a “highly private and confidential colloquy” between Doge Alvi
Art and Truth in Baroque Italy, or the Case of Emanuele Tesauro’s Il cannocchiale aristotelico
Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Matilde Serao, "Canituccia" (from Piccole anime, 1883)
Translated by Jon R. Snyder
From Igiaba Scego, La mia casa è dove sono (Home Is Where I Am), Milan
Translated by Jon R. Snyder and Megan Williamson
Introduction
In the course of its existence, California Italian Studies has published essays by living Italian philosophers who were luminaries in the field, including Umberto Eco and Franco Cassano (now both deceased). Somehow, however, the pages of this journal never until now have hosted any contribution by Gianni Vattimo, the great Italian philosopher who passed away in September 2023 at age 87. Vattimo was a beloved teacher, a mentor, and a friend to sev…
Myth and Fate of Secularization
Philosophical thought about the presence of myth in the contemporary world cannot be founded upon an essential or metaphysical definition of myth. This is due in part to the fact that the dream of philosophy as a rigorous science has been definitively ausgeträumt. More specifically, though, it is due to the fact that the theme of myth itself appears to us today in an uncertain light. No satisfactory theory of myth-one that would define its nature…
“A Sea without Floor or Shore”
Discordant, dissonant, bizarre, alien, barbaric: from the outset, critics in Italy and Europe flung derogatory terms like these at the literary Baroque. Driving the furor was the emergence of practices of textual representation that swerved away from established literary-critical norms such as verisimilitude, decorum, unity, harmony, etc., as well as from the system of genres inherited from antiquity and reinterpreted in the Renaissance. In the s…
The Gut of Naples by Matilde Serao
Editor’s Introduction, CIS 14.2
This open-theme issue celebrates the centenary of two important figures in European and Italian culture in the second half of the twentieth century.Both Mario Merz and Michel de Certeau were born in 1925; in their youth both were involved in Resistance activities during World War Two; but from that point on
Perfect Thoughts and il pensiero debole in advance
At the end of the 1980s the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo published two essays in exhibition catalogues issued in conjunction with museum shows of the work of maverick contemporary American artist James Lee Byars. Vattimo’s post-modern philosophy of il pensiero debole found common ground with the idiosyncratic conceptual and performance art practiced by Byars. In particular, the theses on the death or decline of art proposed in Vattimo’s 198…
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