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Dario Gentili is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy, in Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, University of Roma Tre.
Elettra Stimilli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Roma.
Glenda Garelli is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leeds.
1. Introduction, Dario Gentili and Elettra Stimilli / Part 1: Italian Theory? / 2. German Philosophy, French Theory, Italian Thought, Roberto Esposito / 3. About Italian Theory, Antonio Negri / 4. In a new country through old courses, Mario Tronti / 5. Italian Theory? Elements for a Genealogy, Sandro Chignola / 6. Italian Theory and its Differences. Subjectification, Historicization, Conflict, Judith Revel / 7. A World to Gain. About the Borders of “Theory”, Sandro Mezzadra / Part 2: Categories / 8. Politics and Philosophy between Biopolitics and Political Theology, Elettra Stimilli / 9. The Dispositive of Crisis. Political Theology and Biopolitics, Dario Gentili / 10. Inhabiting Immanence. A Concept’s Logic, History, and Politics in Italian Thought, Roberto Ciccarelli
Italian Critical Thought demonstrates that there are theoretical and political alternatives to the grand narratives of neoliberalism; that the vocabulary of globalization, free market, competition, and crisis can be displaced by critical imagination and militant philosophy. This volume provides a necessary toolbox for naming the excess of politics and mobilizing what resists against, or escapes from, the horizon of the nation-state and its categories.
— Federico Luisetti, Professor of Italian Studies, University of St. Gallen
What exactly is Italian thought and how might it help us respond to some of the political and ethical predicaments we face today? In this virtuous collection, Gentili, Stimilli and Garelli have arranged a number of incisive pieces that do justice to the broad and ecumenical perspectives that make up contemporary Italian thought. From autonomia to biopolitics to political theology and its critique, the snapshot that emerges of Italian thought is one of a powerful ontology and immanence able to enhance difference in a political moment that sorely needs it. It also happens to be a wonderful introduction for those new to Italian philosophy.
— Timothy C. Campbell, Professor in the Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University