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Fear of Freedom: With the Essay Fear of Painting

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Description for Fear of Freedom: With the Essay Fear of Painting Paperback. Carlo Levi (1902-1975) was a painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family whose political activism forced him into exile for most of the Second World War. Written as war clouds were gathering over Europe, this work is also a powerful indictment of our contemporary moral and political failures. Editor(s): Pugliese, Stanislao G. Translator(s): Gourevitch, Adolphe. Num Pages: 176 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: DN; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
Carlo Levi was a painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family, and his political activism forced him into exile for most of the Second World War. While in exile, he wrote Christ Stopped at Eboli, a memoir, and Fear of Freedom, a philosophical meditation on humanity's flight from moral and spiritual autonomy and our resulting loss of self and creativity. Brooding on what surely appeared to be the decline, if not the fall of Europe, Levi locates the human abdication of responsibility in organized religion and its ability to turn the sacred into the sacrificial. In doing so, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
103
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231139977
SKU
V9780231139977
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About Carlo Levi
Carlo Levi (1902-1975) was born in Turin and earned a degree in medicine, though he never formally practiced and instead gravitated toward painting and was an active participant in the anti-fascist underground. Twice arrested for his politics, and eventually exiled, he wrote a memoir entitled Christ Stopped at Eboli while hiding from the Nazis in Florence. After the Second World ... Read more

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