Por uma filosofia contra a resignação: Giacomo Leopardi crítico da modernidade

Abstract

When Leopardi proposes a "desperate philosophy" "filosofia disperante"), he presupposes that there is a nothingness principle constituting all things ontologically. Then, he refuses every thought thatis still supported by a "universal and absolute reason". As far as knowledge is concerned, he tries to restore and integrate some faculties linked to human sensitive experience (aesthetics). At the same time, this would make possible the understanding of human condition marked by the unhappiness experience. This text intends to explains the elements of this "challenging" and "dismistifying" thought which fights the pretended philosophical elaboration of a so called "arrogant and foolish" century.