Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers: Stretching the Art of Thinking

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A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Contemporary Italian Women Thinkers: Attending to Thinking, Extending the Art Part One: Women, Mothers, Bodies 1. The Inner Passage 2. Who Is a Mother? Abortion in the Politics of Sexual Difference Bodies as Objects vs Embodied Subjects The Biological Reductionism of Reproductive Technologies Biological Parents and Parental Figures Yet One Is Still Born from a Woman The Irreplaceable Womb Feminist Dissent on Surrogate Motherhood Beyond Parenthood 3. Aporias of the Maternal in the Women’s Movement Part Two: Subjectivity, Power, and the Political 4. Toward an Ethos of Freedom: Notes on Subjectivity and Power “Toward a Non-Fascist Way of Life” De-subjectivation or Becoming Subjects? Socrates against Plato Arendtian Socratism Socrates as Ethos of Freedom The Dissidence of Permanent Socratism An-archic Subjectivity? 5. Biopolitics and Economy: Between Self-Government Practices and New Forms of Control Biopolitics Evaluated Lives Precarious Transcendence in an Ontology of Immanence Populism, Nonantagonistic Political Subjects, Commons: Biopolitical Forms of Doing Politics? 6. Immunitary Politics The Janus Head of Globalization The Crisis of Modern Topolitics Immunitary Sovereignism and the Right to Citizenship Part Three: Responsibility, Emotions, Time 7. Responsibility as Being Here in Our Own Time Responsibility for What We Are Not Responsible for History in the I History as Responsibility and the Ethical-Political Transformation of Phenomenology The Responsibility to Be Here 8. Emotional Subjects: For the Care of the Future A Philosophy for the World Which Subject? A Subject in Relation: With Whom, Though? The Emotional Relationship and the Metamorphosis of the Self Part Four: Everyday Life, Action, Transcendence 9. Everyday Life: For a Vision without Transcendences Introductory Remarks Metropolitan Life: Simmel The Fall of the “Modern” Subject: Freud and Heidegger Toward a “New Ontology”: Merleau-Ponty Conclusive Remarks 10. The Symbol in Action Understanding the Symbol Starting from Symbolic Action Foundations for Understanding the Symbol Thinking the Symbol Starting from Its Action Representational Action An Exercise in Philosophizing: The Center and Its Extending Rays A Brief Excursus on the Question of the “Who” in Philosophy Philosophy and Symbol: Dialectic and Conversation Coda 11. Mimetic Inclinations: A Dialogue with Adriana Cavarero Introduction Ancient Shadows Modern Phantoms Mimesis and Narration Imitation and Gender Relations Masses and Plurality Contributors Index