Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy

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.

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Ferment of Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy Antonio Calcagno 1. Biological Life and Political Life Roberto Esposito 2. Nothing in Common: Esposito and Vattimo on Community Robert T. Valgenti 3. Roberto Esposito and the Relation between the Personal and the Impersonal Antonio Calcagno 4. Narrating the Self through the Other: On the Thought of Adriana Cavarero Elvira Roncalli 5. Psychoanalysis in Early Italian Feminism: The Contributions of the Practice of the Unconscious Paola Melchiori 6. Luce Fabbri: Anarchism as an Art of Living Margareth Rago 7. The Transcendental Limits of Politics: On Massimo Cacciari's Political Philosophy Alessandro Carrera 8. Trauma and Political Existence: Remo Bodei on Not Confronting Delusion Alexander U. Bertland 9. Paulo Virno: Exodus and Language Franco Berardi 10. After Lives: On Giorgio Agamben and the Coloniality of the Sovereign Exception (from a Latin American Perspective) Alejandro A. Vallega 11. Happy Depression: Franco Berardi and the Unpaid Bills of Desire Gary Genosko 12. Marx contra Negri: Value, Abstract Labor, and Money Christian Lotz 13. The Risk of Subjectivity: Negri beyond Adorno Timothy S. Murphy 14. Antonio Negri-On the Trail of New Social Subjects Pierre Lamarche Contributors Index