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Sebastiano Timpanaro (September 5, 1923 in
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– November 26, 2000 in
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) was an Italian classical
philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...
,
essay An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal a ...
ist, and
literary critic Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...
. He was also a long-time
Marxist Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
who made important contributions to
left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...
political causes. He was an
atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
.Enrico Ghidetti, Alessandro Pagnini, ''Sebastiano Timpanaro e la cultura del secondo Novecento'', Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2005, p. 364.


Bibliography

* ''La filologia di Giacomo Leopardi'' (1955) * ''La genesi del metodo del Lachmann'' (1963) * ''Classicismo e illuminismo nell'Ottocento italiano'' (1965) * ''Sul materialismo'' (1970) * ''Il lapsus freudiano: psicanalisi e critica testuale'' (1974) * ''Contributi di filologia e di storia della lingua latina'' (1978) * ''Aspetti e figure della cultura ottocentesca'' (1980) * ''Antileopardiani e neomoderati nella sinistra italiana'' (1982) * ''Il socialismo di Edmondo De Amicis: lettura del "Primo maggio"'' (1984) * ''Per la storia della filologia virgiliana antica'' (1986) * ''La fobia romana e altri scritti su Freud e Meringer'', a cura di C.A. Madrignani, ETS (1992) * ''La fobia romana e altri scritti su Freud e Meringer'', a cura di A. Pagnini, ETS (2006) * ''Nuovi contributi di filologia e storia della lingua latina'' (1994) * ''Nuovi studi sul nostro Ottocento'' (1995) * ''Virgilianisti antichi e tradizione indiretta'' (2001; posthumous) * ''Il verde e il rosso: scritti militanti, 1966-2000'' (2001; posthumous)


See also

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Giacomo Leopardi Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (, ; 29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. He is considered the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and one of ...
*
Karl Lachmann Karl Konrad Friedrich Wilhelm Lachmann (; 4 March 1793 – 13 March 1851) was a German philologist and critic. He is particularly noted for his foundational contributions to the field of textual criticism. Biography Lachmann was born in Bruns ...
*
Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...
*
Signorelli parapraxis The Signorelli parapraxis represents the first and best known example of a parapraxis and its analysis in Freud's ''The Psychopathology of Everyday Life''. The parapraxis centers on a word-finding problem and the production of substitutes. Freud co ...
*
Edmondo De Amicis Edmondo De Amicis (; 21 October 1846 – 11 March 1908) was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer. His best-known book is ''Cuore'', a children's novel translated into English as ''Heart''. Early career Born in Oneglia (to ...
* Rudolf Meringer *
Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parties of the country. Founded in Genoa in 1892, ...
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Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity The Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (''Partito Socialista Italiano di Unità Proletaria'', PSIUP) was a political party in Italy, active from 1964 to 1972. History The PSIUP was formed on 12 January 1964 by a leftist section of the ...


English translations

* ''On materialism'' (Lawrence Garner, tr., 1975) * ''The Freudian slip: psychoanalysis and textual criticism'' (Kate Soper, tr., 1976) * ''The genesis of Lachmann's method'' (Glenn W. Most, ed. and tr., 2005) * "The Pessimistic Materialism of Giacomo Leopardi".
New Left Review The ''New Left Review'' is a British bimonthly journal covering world politics, economy, and culture, which was established in 1960. History Background As part of the British "New Left" a number of new journals emerged to carry commentary on m ...
; I/116, July–August 1979: 29–50. * "Considerations of Materialism".
New Left Review The ''New Left Review'' is a British bimonthly journal covering world politics, economy, and culture, which was established in 1960. History Background As part of the British "New Left" a number of new journals emerged to carry commentary on m ...
; I/85 May/June 1974: 3-22.


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