Title & Author:

The Italian difference : between nihilism and biopolitics / editors Lorenzo Chiesa, Alberto Toscano.

Publication:

Melbourne : Re.press, 2009.

Description:

1 online resource (v, 172 pages)

Series:

Transmission

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Front Cover; Half Title Page; Series Page; Title Page; Imprint -- Copyright; Contents; 1 Chiesa and Toscano -- Introduction; 2 Antonio Negri -- The Italian Difference; 3 Pier Aldo Rovatti -- Foucault Docet; 4 Gianni Vattimo -- Nihilism as Emancipation; 5 Roberto Esposito -- Community and Nihilism; 6 Matteo Mandarini -- Beyond Nihilism: Notes Towards a Critique of Left-Heideggerianism in Italian Philosophy of the 1970s; 7 Luisa Muraro -- The Symbolic Independence from Power; 8 Mario Tronti -- Towards a Critique of Political Democracy.

Summary:

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 al.

Resources:
ProQuest Ebook Central
Publisher's home page

ISBN:

9780980666540 (web)
0980666546 (web)
9780980544077
0980544076

Subject:

Nihilism (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Italian 20th century.
Biopolitics Italy.
Nihilisme.
Philosophie italienne 20e siècle.
Biopolitique Italie.
nihilism.
Biopolitics
Philosophy, Italian
Italy

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Collections

Added entries:

Chiesa, Lorenzo.
Toscano, Alberto.
Transmission.