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Luciano De Crescenzo (1928–2019)

Author of The History of Greek Philosophy: The pre-socratic

143+ Works 2,905 Members 43 Reviews 5 Favorited

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Series

Works by Luciano De Crescenzo

Thus Spake Bellavista (1977) 289 copies, 3 reviews
The History of Greek Philosophy (1987) 189 copies, 3 reviews
Panta rei (1994) 176 copies, 1 review
Il dubbio (1992) 141 copies, 4 reviews
Oi Dialogoi I Dialoghi Di Bellavista (1987) 123 copies, 1 review
Nessuno (1997) 92 copies, 2 reviews
I grandi miti greci (1999) 88 copies, 1 review
Ordine e disordine (1996) 84 copies, 1 review
Storia della filosofia medioevale (2002) 77 copies, 1 review
Zio Cardellino (1988) 70 copies
Socrate (1988) 66 copies
Croce e delizia (1993) 61 copies
Il tempo e la felicità (1998) 49 copies
La distrazione (2000) 39 copies
Le donne sono diverse (1999) 35 copies, 1 review
Sembra ieri (1998) 32 copies, 1 review
Tale e quale (2001) 24 copies, 2 reviews
I pensieri di Bellavista (2005) 22 copies
Von der Macht der Liebe. (1991) 20 copies
Socrate e compagnia bella (2009) 18 copies
Ulisse era un fico (2010) 16 copies
Tutti santi me compreso (2011) 10 copies
Raffaele (1990) 10 copies
Bellavista und die Liebe. (2003) 5 copies
Zeus. I miti degli eroi (1994) 5 copies
Los mitos de los héroes (1995) 3 copies
Gesu' e' nato a napoli (2014) 2 copies
Ordem e Desordem (2003) 2 copies
Il nano e l'infanta (2008) 2 copies
Storia della Filosofia (2019) 2 copies
Gesù è nato a Napoli (2013) 1 copy
I viaggi di Ulisse (2014) 1 copy
Böyle Dedi Bellavista (2015) 1 copy
Diyaloglar (2015) 1 copy
2000 1 copy
Il simposio 1 copy
I miti greci 1 copy
32 dicembre 1 copy
Testore 1 copy
ZIO CARDELLINO (1822) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Republic of Plato (0380) — Introduction, some editions — 25,535 copies, 162 reviews
Io speriamo che me la cavo: Sessanta temi di bambini napoletani (Ingrandimenti) (Italian Edition) (1990) — Introduction, some editions — 278 copies, 3 reviews
Livella. Poesie napoletane ('A) (1991) — Introduction — 107 copies, 2 reviews

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Canonical name
De Crescenzo, Luciano
Birthdate
1928-08-18
Date of death
2019-07-18
Gender
male
Education
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Occupations
actor
director
writer
engineer
Organizations
IBM
Awards and honors
Honorary Citizen of Athens (1994)
Nationality
Italy
Birthplace
Naples, Kingdom of Italy
Places of residence
Naples, Italy
Place of death
Rome, Italy
Associated Place (for map)
Italy

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Reviews

53 reviews
Era da tantissimo che non leggevo De Crescenzo! C’è stato un periodo, quello del Liceo, credo, in cui ne ho letti diversi, mi piaceva davvero molto, poi, di punto in bianco, mi sono fermata. E ora mi accorgo che mi è mancato molto, e vorrei leggere altri suoi libri!!!
Che poi per la verità questo libro non m’è piaciuto proprio tantissimo, ne ha scritti di migliori, e si è anche un po’ ripetuto, cioè ho trovato concetti ed episodi che ricordavo per aver letto in altri suoi libri. show more Però ha sempre un modo di scrivere molto piacevole, e molto divertente! Mi chiedo però quanto ci sia di vero in questa sorta di autobiografia… non dico tanto per quel che riguarda le sue relazioni, ma per esempio i vari aneddoti con personaggi reali, come Enrico De Nicola, Totò o Bud Spencer.

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Credo sia stato il mio primo romanzo, ormai troppi anni fa.Ho paura di rileggerlo e di trovarlo banale o proprio brutto (ma credo mi piacerebbe ancora) - perché all'epoca l'ho adorato, cominciando così la carriera bibliovora.
Fino ad allora avevo snobbato la carta in favore dei cartoni... Il mio debito di gratitudine verso De Crescenzo temo non sarà mai ripagato.
Some books are admirable because they are well investigated. Some open new perspectives. Other books are just fun to read. Crescenzo’s history of philosophy: from the presokratics till the Neoplatonic’s belongs to the last category. (Though between the lines he manages to show some great erudition on the subject matter and is able to give his references.)

The book is heavily loaded with his own opinion. Crescenzo is a flamboyant life affirming Italian (yes that is a judgment easy to make show more from this history of philosophy book). The Stoics with their focus o duty, philosophers that have no humour - not his cup of espresso, so they are all bashed again and again.

Several times the ideas of philosophers are linked to Naples and it’s (famous) people. Names and customs that are unknown to me, but because Crescenzo is crystal clear about the story he is telling this is no burden. On top of that, he mixes every few chapters with a made up contemporary that lives a philosophy. An experiment is likes, though with mixed results.

The only real weaknesses of the book where his treatment of Plato, Aristotle and the neoplatonics. He is able to bring the philosophers to life in their streets, schools and gardens, but totally fails to do this for the thinkers above. Probably this is the weak side of the positive quality of this book. Telling great stories becomes hard when you go into the megalithic material that is available on Plato and Aristotle.

Another minor weakness is the 199% male focus of the book. Everybody is a man, when beauty is discussed “we” like the beauty of woman... well you get the idea. But, hé, the guy is an Italian, what can he do?

Read this book if you want a fun to read overview of all sorts of ideas (and private psychological experiments with life-‘styles’) from 600 bc till 200 ad.
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Rating
3.8
Reviews
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ISBNs
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