Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy

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Highlights and critically assesses the work of contemporary Italian political philosophers. Italy has a rich philosophical legacy, and recent developments and movements in its political philosophy have produced a significant body of thought by internationally renowned philosophers working on questions and themes such as the critique of neoliberalism, statehood, politics and culture, feminism, community, the stranger, and the relationship between politics and action. This volume brings this conversation to English-language readers, considering well-known Italian philosophers such as Vattimo, Agamben, Esposito, and Negri, as well as philosophers with whom English-language readers are less acquainted, such as Luce Fabbri, Adriana Cavarero, and Lea Melandri. In addition, the essays extend the conversation beyond the realm of Italian philosophy, bringing its thinkers into dialogue with philosophical figures including Badiou, Marx, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and Guattari, Adorno, Arendt, Foucault, Wittgenstein, and the Peruvian historian and sociologist Anibal Quijano. Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction: The Ferment of Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy by Antonio Calcagno......Page 10 Notes......Page 18 1. Biological Life and Political Life by Roberto Esposito......Page 20 2. Nothing in Common: Esposito and Vattimo on Community by Robert T. Valgenti......Page 32 A Positive Nothing......Page 33 A Weaker Nothing......Page 38 Nothing in Common......Page 42 Notes......Page 45 3. Roberto Esposito and the Relation between the Personal and the Impersonal by Antonio Calcagno......Page 48 Esposito’s Argument......Page 49 The Possibility of the Impersonal?......Page 57 Notes......Page 60 4. Narrating the Self through the Other: On the Thought of Adriana Cavarero by Elvira Roncalli......Page 62 Dislocation and Disfigured Relations......Page 64 The Narratable Self and “Il sapore familiare” del se—The Familiar Taste of Oneself: Another Kind of Dislocation?......Page 67 She, “The Necessary Other”—You, (Tu), Who Look at Me and Tell of Me......Page 72 “Inassimilable, Unsubstitutable, Unrepeatable”......Page 78 Notes......Page 80 Introduction: The Italian Feminist Context......Page 84 The Italian Version of Consciousness-Raising......Page 87 From Consciousness-Raising to the Practice of Unconscious......Page 91 The Structure of Power in Groups of Women......Page 93 Masculine and Feminine in Groups of Women......Page 95 The Answers of Feminism......Page 96 Sexuality and Symbolic: From the Spoken Word to Writing......Page 97 Still Missing......Page 101 Notes......Page 103 6. Luce Fabbri: Anarchism as an Art of Living by Margareth Rago......Page 108 The Critique of Power and the State......Page 110 Anarchism as an Art of Living......Page 113 Asserting the Anarchism of the Twenty-first Century......Page 118 Notes......Page 124 The Politics of the Unpolitical......Page 128 Heroes of Indecision......Page 135 The Genealogy of Europe......Page 138 Notes......Page 146 8. Trauma and Political Existence: Remo Bodei on Not Confronting Delusion by Alexander U. Bertland......Page 148 Delusion and Personal Identity......Page 149 Delusion and the Threat of Colonization......Page 156 Philosophical Therapy......Page 162 Notes......Page 166 The Biological Invariant......Page 170 Language and Post-Fordism......Page 172 Signifying Production Information......Page 176 Multitude, Individuation, Exile......Page 180 The Limit, Excess, and the Possible......Page 184 Notes......Page 187 Introduction: Silence and Life......Page 188 Life as Possibility......Page 190 The Nondialectical Potency of Thought......Page 192 Life at the Threshold......Page 193 Living Nondialectic Anachronism: Contemporaneity from a Latin American Perspective......Page 195 A Golden Age......Page 196 The Coloniality of the Sovereign Exception......Page 197 Unbridled Realities......Page 201 Notes......Page 205 11. Happy Depression: Franco Berardi and the Unpaid Bills of Desire by Gary Genosko......Page 208 We, the Defeated......Page 209 Enjoy Your Self-Loathing......Page 212 Felix and Félix......Page 213 Unhappy Depression: Fragile and Sexy......Page 215 The Potential of Depression......Page 216 Impotent Greens......Page 217 Depressive Technologies......Page 219 Conclusion......Page 220 Notes......Page 222 Form......Page 226 Labor......Page 229 Abstract Labor......Page 233 Value Form......Page 237 Money Form......Page 238 General Intellect......Page 242 Notes......Page 245 13. The Risk of Subjectivity: Negri beyond Adorno by Timothy S. Murphy......Page 252 Against Positivism......Page 255 Administered Life and Instrumental Reason......Page 260 Class Composition and Self-Valorization......Page 263 The Test of Empiricism......Page 267 Conclusion......Page 269 Notes......Page 271 14. Antonio Negri—On the Trail of New Social Subjects by Pierre Lamarche......Page 280 Toni Negri, the Italian New Left, and the Tradition of Autonomist Marxism......Page 283 A Machiavellian Negri, and a Quarrel with Agamben—Italian Political Philosophy......Page 292 Notes......Page 298 Contributors......Page 306 Index......Page 310