By

RICCARDO CAMPA

(Università per Stranieri, Sienna, Italy)

Cover Design by Éctor Sandoval ©

ISBN: 978-1-937030-37-7

 2013

The word, the desert: these are the metaphors of our reality.  The vast stretches of sand that weigh upon our fantasies and dreams are the repositories of celestial images.  Despite the burden of that weight, music and poetry, sound and sign, reverberate through our discourse.  The flow of time, the storied phases of the human condition unfold and reveal themselves through the descriptive language of knowledge.  Indeed, conviction is the work of the observer’s assuefaction to nature, which now finds itself altered by the artificiality, by the infectious tutelary frenzy of the contemporary technological climate.

Dr. RICCARDO CAMPA, Professor Emeritus in the history of political thought at the Università per

 Stranieri at Siena, was deeply influenced by his own professors, the Nobel prizewinner Erwin Schrödinger at

 the European Forum of Alpbach and Georges Dumézil at the College de France.  Dr. Campa has taught at

 European and North and South American universities, and is the author of over two dozen books and

 numerous articles which have been published in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Croatian and

 Macedonian, as well as in Italian.  He is Director of the Center of Excellence in Research at Siena, and

 currently holds the title of Executive Director of the Giambattista Vico Chair of Italian Culture at Dowling

 College in New York.

INTRODUCTION

BY

ROBERT M. BERCHMAN

NOTE TO READERS

BY

SUSAN L. ROSENSTREICH

Dr. Robert M. Berchman is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Dowling College in Long Island, New York and is a Senior Fellow  at the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College.  He has published extensively on Plato, Aristotle, and their tradition and most recently has published, Porphyry Against the Christians (Brill 2005). With John Finamore, he has edited two books published by University Press of the South: History of Platonism. Plato Redivivus (2005); and Metaphysical Patterns in Platonism (2007). He is Co-Director of the Philosophy and Ethics Studies Series at University Press of the South.

Dr. Susan L. Rosenstreich is Professor Emerita of Foreign Languages and Literature at Dowling College in Long Island, New York. She is a poet, translator and scholar whose academic publications address topics in medieval, Renaissance and early modern cultures.

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