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The Resistible Crisis of Italian Thought -

The Resistible Crisis of Italian Thought

Between Politics and Metaphysics
Buch | Hardcover
310 Seiten
2026
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
979-8-8558-0537-6 (ISBN)
CHF 149,95 inkl. MwSt
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Offers a more complex picture of Roberto Esposito's notion of "Italian Thought" in order to examine the persisting crisis of contemporary Italian philosophy.

The present volume intends to offer new insight into Roberto Esposito's seminal notion of "Italian Thought." In Esposito's understanding, Italian Thought would offer an innovative bridge between French and German philosophy. As distinguished from French postmodernism and German transcendentalism in communication ethics, Italian Thought would allow for a better negotiation between power, history, and life. The essays within The Resistible Crisis of Italian Thought do not share Esposito's optimism but rather argue that the fascinating notion of Italian Thought unfortunately only provides a selective representation and neglects several portions of it, such as Italian metaphysicians, political scientists, feminists, and art theorists. Motivated by the ambition to address this neglect and to offer a more complex insight that does not necessarily end with the reassuring representation offered by Esposito, this volume points us toward an examination of the persisting crisis of contemporary Italian philosophy.

Federico Dal Bo is Senior Lecturer at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. He has published many books, including Judaism, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis in Heidegger's Ontology: Harrowing the Heath. Carlo Salzani is Research Fellow at the Messerli Research Institute of Vienna. He is the author and editor of many works, including Agamben and the Animal.

Introduction: Complicating the Paradigm(s)
Federico Dal Bo and Carlo Salzani

Part 1 Metaphysics and Politics

1. The Society Without Government and the Recovery of Political Praxis: Alessandro Biral Between Crisis and Politics
Ivan Dimitrijevic´

2. Discomfort in the Italian Operaism: The Nietzschean Legacy in the Work of Nicola Massimo De Feo
Roberto Nigro

3. A Marxian Political Theology of Nihilism: Costanzo Preve and Domenico Losurdo on Marx's Historical Materialism
Federico Dal Bo

4. Ontological Personalism in Luigi Pareyson's Political Thought
Emanuele Curcio

5. Is Metaphysics Totalitarian? First Remarks on Politics and Metaphysics in Emanuele Severino
Antimo Lucarelli

Part 2 Metaphysics, Aesthetics, and Beyond

6. Italian Theory as Italian Cultural Studies: A Genealogical Perspective
Antonio Lucci

7. A Situationist in the Years of Lead: Gianfranco Sanguinetti's Theory of the State
Mia Gonan

8. An Inorganic Intellectual: Mario Perniola and the Aesthetic Horizon
Enea Bianchi

9. Against Emancipation and Revolution: Carla Lonzi's Feminist Political Theory
Olivia Guaraldo

10. Adriana Cavarero's Public Ethics of Care: Plural Uniqueness, Narratability, Vulnerability
Valentina Moro

Part 3 Metaphysics and Life

11. Use Without Care? Feminist Cautions Against Agamben's Call for "Politics as Intimacy"
Lucile Richard

12. The Crisis of a Paradigm: Agamben's Misunderstanding of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Carlo Salzani

13. Competitive Narratives of Life in Italian Thought: Affirmative Biopolitics as a New Humanism?
Oana S,erban

14. What the Thought Does Not Think: Roberto Esposito and Massimo Donà on Negation
Michele Ricciotti

Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2026
Reihe/Serie SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-13 979-8-8558-0537-6 / 9798855805376
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