Academic literature on the topic 'Michelstaedter, Carlo'

Carlo Michelstaedter (Gorizia, 1887-1910) left a singular trail in the Italian philosophy of the early 20th century. Almost one hundred and eleven years after his demise, his suicide, one can still discuss the influence of the Italian thinker, the vitality of their topics and the depth of their thinking. Our purpose is to know the figure that subsists behind the thinker of Persuasion and Rhetoric. In accordance with this objective, we will make a tour of his philosophical, epistolary and poetic work, which is certainly not enough. However, it will help us to shed light on the fas-cinating creation of the last doctor of nihilism, the last great diagnosis of the profound lack of sense that carried the second part of the S. XIX and inaugurated the first decade of the S. XX. In the form of an elegy, perhaps even an ode, we will remember the Italian philosopher in these times, for he remains a fruitful, unfinished and extremely mysterious undertaking. In conclusion, we will try to defend Michelstaedter from merely suicidal readings and approach a four-time interpretation of the Italian philosopher.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.
Title from file title page. Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., committee chair; Angelo Restivo, Melissa Merritt, Christopher White, committee members. Electronic text (56 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Feb. 6, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-56).

L'activité intellectuelle de Carlo Michelstaedter vise à l'identification de la pureté morale et de l'héroïsme existentiel d'un modèle idéal de la subjectivité, qu'il appelle "le persuadé". L'homme "sur le chemin de la persuasion" est celui qui a la "vocation de l'existence", qui fait de son existence le but proprement religieux de sa vie. Aussi le portrait de Michelstaedter que nous avons essayé de brosser n'est- il pas celui d'un "poète" ni d'un "philosophe", mais celui d'un "intellectuel" du début du siècle, dont nous avons voulu retracer l'itinéraire spirituel et analyser l'idéologie morale. Notre examen de l'œuvre de cet auteur s'est appuyé sur une analyse textuelle (à la fois formelle et conceptuelle), sur une analyse culturelle et sur une analyse historico-idéologique. La première partie de cette étude concerne l'analyse des textes michelstaedteriens des années 1905-1907: la "préhistoire poétique" romantique, les critiques littéraires, la "poétique de l'inquiétude". Dans la deuxième partie nous examinons l'activité intellectuelle de Michelstaedter au cours de sa période florentine 1907-1909. Dans cette partie nous avons tenté de définir les formes de la phénoménologie intellectuelle et artistique de la culture florentine du début du siècle. Les analyses textuelles - littéraires et philosophiques - de la troisième partie, concernent la période 1908-1910. L'examen de La Persuasione e la rettorica y est précédé de l'analyse idéologico-littéraire des métaphores narratives et poétiques relevées dans les textes de 1908 et de l'analyse littéraire et conceptuelle des poèmes de 1909-1910; il y est suivi de l'analyse des tout derniers poèmes de Michelstaedter, qui nous a permis de constater que c'est par l'expression symbolique du poème que l'auteur parvient à nous transmettre le sens ultime et la signification authentique de cet idéal de la "persuasion" auquel aboutit sa quête spirituelle, sa "vocation de l'existence"
The intellectual activity of Carlo Michelstaedter aim at the identification of the moral purity and of the existential heroism of an ideal model of the subjectivity, that he calls "the persuaded man". The man "on the way of the persuasion" is the man who has the "vocation for the existence": his existence is the religious aim of his life. Therefore the portrait of Michelstaedter that we have tried to draw is not the portrait of a "poet" or that of a "philosopher", but it is the portrait of an intellectual of the beginning of our century, whose spiritual way and moral speculation we have tried to analyze. Our study about the works of this author is based on a textual analysis (formal and conceptual analysis in the same time), on a cultural analysis and on an historical and ideological analysis. In the first part of this study we analyze Michelstaedter's works of 1905- 1907: the romantic "poetical prehistory", the literary reviewals, the "poetic of the anxiety". In the second part we study the intellectual activity of Michelstaedter during his Florentine period 1907-1909. In this second part of our study we have tried to describe the forms of the intellectual and artistical phenomenology of the Florentine culture at the beginning of our century. In the third part, the textual analysis - literary and philosophical analysis - concerns the 1908-1910 period. The study of La Persuasione e la rettorica is preceded by the literary and theorical analysis of the narrative and poetical metaphors that we have pointed out in the works of the year 1908, and by the literary and conceptual analysis of the poems written in 1909- 1910; it is followed by the analysis of the later Michelstaedter's poems: this last analysis has allowed us to point out that it is through the symbolical expression Michelstaedter reaches to show us the authentic meaning of this ideal of "persuasion" at whom ends his spiritual search, his "vocation for the existence"

Le 17 octobre 1910, carlo michelstaedter se suicide d'un coup de revolver. Il a vingt-trois ans et il a acheve la veille son memoire de maitrise initialement intitule "les notions de persuasion et de rhetorique chez platon et aristote". Ce texte, d'une haute valeur philosophique, a ete depuis publie sous le titre de "la persuasion et la rhetorique" : c. Michelstaedter y developpe une philosophie extremement personnelle, prenant appui sur sa parfaite connaissance des textes antiques. Au-dela de la simple analyse des textes anciens, michelstaedter elabore sa propre definition de la vie philosophique, qu'il nomme "persuasion". Quelles sont les raisons qui ont pousse un etudiant a delaisser le champ speculatif pour engager sa vie toute entiere dans ses recherches? comment cette etude a-t-elle pu se conclure par un suicide? pourquoi etait-elle "condamnee" a l'echec philosophique, rendu necessaire par les definitions que donne michelstaedter de la rhetorique et de la persuasion? quelles sont les relations entre ce suicide et cette "mort philosophique"? telles sont les questions que cette these se propose d'explorer, pour mettre a jour l'exigence absolue d'authenticite de michelstaedter et la violence sur laquelle il a debouche. .
On the day of october 17th 1910, carlo michelstaedter commits suicide with a revolver. He is 23, and he has achieved, the previous day, a thesis, initially intitled "the concepts of rhetoric and persuasion in the works of plato and aristot". This text of a high philosophical value has been published as "rhetoric and persuasion". C. Michelstaedter has developped in it a very personal philosophy that grows from a prefect knowledge of the ancient greek philosophy. From these texts of the ancient greece, michelstaedter elaborates his own research of a philosophical life. Why has he chosen to leave the ground of pure speculation and to engage his own life in this research? why this study of the greek philosophy has conducted to suicide? why was he "condamned" to a philosophical failure because of his owns definitions of rhetoric and persuasion? which is the link beteween suicide and philosophical failure? these are the questions that this thesis triss to answer to, revealing the absolute exigence of this research and the violence on which his author has got into

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 1991.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to point out and elaborate the affinities, culturally as well as textually, between the two Italian authors, Italo Svevo and Carlo Michelstaedter. Furthermore, it is the object of this study to demonstrate how, implicitly, the two authors provide an answer, each in his own way, to the question of "una vita degna di essere vissuta" - "a life worthy of being lived". The central theme in this regard concerns the distinctive notions that each author has in respect of 'Ihealth" and "disease", and "life" and "death", as well as how these notions correspond to the implicit search in their respective writings for "perfection", "authenticity" and "liberty".
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie het ten doel am die kulturele en tekstuele affiniteite tussen die lwee Italiaanse outeurs, Ital0 Svevo en Carlo Michelstaedter, uit te wys en uitvoerig te bespreek. Daarbenewens, is die voorneme van hierdie studie om te wys hoe elk van die tv:ee outeurs, implisiet, '0 aotwoord verskaf op die kwessie van "una vita degna di essere vissuta" - II 'n lewe wat waardig is om geleef te word". Die sentrale tema in hierdie verband het betrekking op die onderskeidelike opvattings wat elke auteur se werk bevat ten opsigte van "gesondheid" en "siekte", en "Iewe" en "dood". Daar word ook getoon hoe hierdie opvattings betreffende die implisiete soeke ten opsigte van "volmaaktheid", "outentisiteit" en ''vryheid" in hul onderskeidelike tekste korrespondeer.