Major Corrections - An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro

A trenchant analysis of the thought of Sebastiano Timpanaro, one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century

List of contents

Preface
Notes on Bibliography and Abbreviations

Introduction: Bit Parts
1 Red to the End
2 Philology and Its Histories
3 Enlightenment Classicists
4 A Material Boy
5 Freud’s Slips
6 Language and Linguistics
7 ‘Literary Criticism’
Conclusion: Battere e Ribattere

Acknowledgments
Index

About the author

Tom Geue teaches Classical Studies at the Australian National University. He has written about the mysteries of anonymous writing in the ancient world, including the books Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome (2019) and Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity (2017). He has also written Marxist criticism on classical Latin poetry. In 2021, his original research was recognised with the award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize.

Summary

A trenchant analysis of the thought of Sebastiano Timpanaro, one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century

Product details

• Authors: Tom Geue
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.2025
• EAN: 9781804293775
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-377-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, Biography: general, PHILOSOPHY / Language, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Italy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Marxism & Communism