| Italian Critical Thought: Genealogies and Categories Contributor(s): Gentili, Dario (Editor), Stimilli, Elettra (Editor), Garelli, Glenda (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1786604507 ISBN-13: 9781786604507 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $151.47 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - Philosophy | Political - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism |
| Dewey: 320.094 |
| LCCN: 2018032214 |
| Series: New Politics of Autonomy |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Italian philosophical and political thought has been receiving ever-growing attention in international debates. This has mainly been driven by the revival of the Italian neo- and post-Marxist tradition and of the Italian interpretation of French Theory, in particular of Foucault's biopolitics. So, is it now possible to speak of an 'Italian Theory' or an 'Italian difference' in the context of philosophical and political thought? This book collects together leading names in Italian critical thought to examine the significant contributions that they are giving to contemporary political debates. The first part of the book draws a possible genealogy of the so-called 'Italian Theory', questioning the possibility of grouping together many authors, and political and theoretical approaches which are often reciprocally in conflict. The second part of the book presents certain categories that have become characteristic of Italian Thought for their original interpretation and use by some of the authors recognized as part of the Italian Theory tradition, from biopolitics and political theology to crisis and immanence. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gentili, Dario: - Dario Gentili is a Research Fellow at the Italian Institute of Human Sciences and was recently Visiting Researcher at Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf. He currently has an Honorary Fellowship in Moral Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Roma Tre. He is author of Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces (Lexington) and many books in Italian, including Il tempo della storia. Le tesi "sul concetto di storia" di Walter Benjamin, Guida, Napoli 2002; Topografie politiche. Spazio urbano, cittadinanza, confini in Walter Benjamin e Jacques Derrida, Quodlibet, Macerata 2009; Italian Theory. Dall'operaismo alla biopolitica, Il Mulino, Bologna 2012.Garelli, Glenda: - Glenda Garelli is research associate at Queen Mary, University of London and adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She works at the intersection of political theory and urban studies on immigration and refugee issues in the central Mediterranean. Her single and co-authored work appeared in Materiali Foucaultiani, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, and Etnografia. She is currently co-editing a special issue on the Mediterranean movements in the journal Antipode and working on a book manuscript drawing from her dissertation The Humanitarian Frontier in the Mediterranean. Border Work and the Right to Presence. |