Shadows
From Plato’s Cave to Heidegger’s attempt at jumping over his shadow
Metaphors of shadows in our cultural tradition. An exemplary search through the many shadows that populate philosophical discourse and literary texts from classical authors to the present.
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University of Stanford
Remo Ceserani has been Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bologna until November 2006. In the year 2007-2008 he has been Francesco De Sanctis Gast professor at ETH Zürich. In the Winter quarter of 2009 he has been visiting professor at Stanford. He has written manuals and introductions to literary studies and books on trains and railways in literature, on postmodernity, on the figure of the foreigner in the European tradition. A book on photography and literature will soon be published by Bollati-Boringhieri in Turin. Remo Ceserani has edited, with Mario Domenichelli and Pino Fasano, a three-volume Dizionario dei temi letterari (Turin, UTET, 2007). Two recent interviews have appeared in the journals «Studi culturali» and «Italian studies».