Sebastiano Timpanaro
Encyclopedia
Italy
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classical philologist
Philology
Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...
, essay
Essay
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ist, and literary critic
Literary criticism
Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals...
. He was also a long-time Marxist
Marxism
Marxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism. Marxism was pioneered in the early to mid 19th...
who made important contributions to left-wing
Left-wing politics
In politics, Left, left-wing and leftist generally refer to support for social change to create a more egalitarian society...
political causes.
English translations
- On materialism (Lawrence Garner, tr., 1975)
- The Freudian slip: psychoanalysis and textual criticism (Kate Soper, tr., 1976)
- The genesis of Lachmann's method (Glenn W. Most, ed. and tr., 2005)