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Perniola, Mario was born on May 20, 1941 in Asti, Italy. Son of Nicola and Olimpia (de Carlo) Perniola.
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Enigmas: The Egyptian Moment in Art and Society by Perniola, Mario (1995) Paperback
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Enigmas: The Egyptian Moment in Art and Society
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In this succinct and innovative book, Mario Perniola, one of Italy’s most influential philosophers and critics, argues that our society is living through an “Egyptian moment”—a postmodern era marked by a particular brand of reification. As the products of high technology come increasingly to assume organic properties, to be endowed with an independent capacity for perception, humanity becomes thing-like, not in the familiar sense of unconscious alienation, but rather in the sense of a deliberate and cynical treatment of itself as an object. We are, he claims, undergoing a process of self-mummification. Perniola mixes philosophy and aesthetics with clarity and erudition, whether he is discussing ‘strategic beauty’ in the work of Baltasar Gracian, the “anti-cynicism” of Carlo Michelstaedter, or Guy Debord’s notion of the secret. In his approach to such topics as periodization, the place of the mirror in Western thought, hermeneutics and utopianism, he draws from ‘high’ and “mass” culture with sometimes startling effect. The scope of Perniola’s enquiry is impressively wide, ranging from Pulcinella to the latest form of video culture, via baroque aesthetics. But his focus, always, is on contemporary experience, an experience brought about neither by a return of the repressed nor by future shock but by their enigmatic coincidence. Enigmas provides an original and acutely perceptive guide to a condition in which ancient past and imaginable future are not merely similar, but can all to easily be confused.
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Ritual Thinking: Sexuality, Death, World (Philosophy and Literary Theory)
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Perniola takes his inspiration from ancient Roman religion and its demystification of myth as ritual without myth. This demystification of ritual does not entail a process of secularization nor does it compromise the sacred character of myth. Instead, it is an attempt to establish a link or a transit between the sacred and the profane. The repetitive nature of ritual thinking is an attempt to relate the individual to the "hard nuts of experience"-sexuality, death, and the vast complexity of the world. These realities are "opaque and impenetrable, indifferent and extraneous to subjective purpose and good intentions. They appear to be 'things' that are irreducible to the life of the spirit and to its ideal aspirations." Where philosophy breaks down in coping with these actualities, ritual thinking provides a symbolic means. Today we witness the global dissemination of behaviors that have lost their original meaning. These behaviors and patterns of thought have become the modern rituals through which we cope with reality. This composite of two works—Transits and The Society of Simulcra—by one of Italy's most innovative thinkers, here translated into English for the first time, will be invaluable to philosophers with an interest in continental philosophy.
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Mario Perniola
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Laurea in Filosofia, University Torino, Italy, 1965. LiberaDocenza Estetica, University Roma, 1971.
Career
Association professor aesthetics, U. Salerno, Italy, 1970-1976; professor aesthetics, U. Salerno, Italy, 1976-1983; professor aesthetics, U. Roma II, since 1983; director department philosophy, U. Roma II, 1986-1992.
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Enigmas: The Egyptian Moment in Art and Society
(In this succinct and innovative book, Mario Perniola, one...)
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Ritual Thinking: Sexuality, Death, World (Philosophy and Literary Theory)
(Perniola takes his inspiration from ancient Roman religio...)
- ENIGMAS. The Egyptian Moment in Society and Art. Translated by Christopher Woodall.
- Enigmas: The Egyptian Moment in Art and Society by Perniola, Mario (1995) Paperback
- (Enigmas: Egyptian Moment in Society and Art) Author: Mario Perniola published on (July, 1995)
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Enigmas: The Egyptian Moment in Art and Society
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Married Graziella Gaggioli, September 11, 1967 (deceased March 1987). 1 child, Ivelise.
