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DESCRIPTION: From the micro to the macro and vice versa\, modernity appears
  to have brought about multiple changes of scale in the way humans measure\
 , map\, and make sense of the world. At the turn of the nineteenth century\
 , the Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi offered extraordinary i
 nsights into these changes of scale and their implications for the modern w
 orld. It is no coincidence that sociologist and cultural historian Paul Gil
 roy identifies Leopardi’s cosmopolitanism as a precursor to the planetary s
 olidarity he advocates in Postcolonial Melancholia (2004)\, nor that philos
 opher Eugene Thacker turns to Leopardi\, among others\, to conceive a cosmi
 c pessimism of a ‘world-without-us’ in Infinite Resignation (2018). Engagin
 g with Leopardi from the perspective of the shifts in scale implied by thes
 e and other concepts sheds new light on his work and brings it into dialogu
 e with current debates on spatial\, temporal\, and social scales.   With th
 e support of the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership and the Society for Ita
 lian Studies (SIS).   Please find the programme in the download section bel
 ow.   To register for this event\, please visit the  ICI website .  
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SUMMARY:Symposium &quot\;Change of Scale: Leopardi and the Measure of Moder
 nity&quot\;
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URL:https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/commitments/international/oxf
 ord/termine/260702-leopardi.html
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