The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism And Biopolitics (transmission)
by Lorenzo Chiesa /
2009 / English / PDF
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This volume brings together essays by different generations of
Italian thinkers which address, whether in affirmative,
problematizing or genealogical registers, the entanglement of
philosophical speculation and political proposition within recent
Italian thought. Nihilism and biopolitics, two concepts that have
played a very prominent role in theoretical discussions in Italy,
serve as the thematic foci around which the collection orbits, as
it seeks to define the historical and geographical particularity of
these notions as well their continuing impact on an international
debate. The volume also covers the debate around 'weak thought'
(pensiero debole), the feminist thinking of sexual difference, the
re-emergence of political anthropology and the question of
communism. The contributors provide contrasting narratives of the
development of post-war Italian thought and trace paths out of the
theoretical and political impasses of the present-against what
Negri, in the text from which the volume takes its name, calls 'the
Italian desert'.
This volume brings together essays by different generations of
Italian thinkers which address, whether in affirmative,
problematizing or genealogical registers, the entanglement of
philosophical speculation and political proposition within recent
Italian thought. Nihilism and biopolitics, two concepts that have
played a very prominent role in theoretical discussions in Italy,
serve as the thematic foci around which the collection orbits, as
it seeks to define the historical and geographical particularity of
these notions as well their continuing impact on an international
debate. The volume also covers the debate around 'weak thought'
(pensiero debole), the feminist thinking of sexual difference, the
re-emergence of political anthropology and the question of
communism. The contributors provide contrasting narratives of the
development of post-war Italian thought and trace paths out of the
theoretical and political impasses of the present-against what
Negri, in the text from which the volume takes its name, calls 'the
Italian desert'.