Il pensiero pedagogico di Giacomo Leopardi

Abstract

The pedagogical thought of Giacomo Leopardi: this is the title of the article of Mario Gennari. The text attacks the noumerous commonplaces concerning his poetic: in particular manner pessimism, Macchiavellianism and nihilism. The self-formation of inner life, in the light of the concepts of «sovrumano» and «ultrafilosofia», grows the centre of force of Leopardi’s pedagogy. Here the «skepsis» arrives, exposed in the philosophical pages of Zibaldine and Penseri, where «la formazione dell’animo» constitutes a topical theme.