{"product_id":"italian-thought-today-9781138377639","title":"Italian Thought Today","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection provides English readers with a critical update on current debates on biopolitics in and around Italian thought. More than a decade after the publication of seminal books such as Agamben's \u003ci\u003eHomo Sacer\u003c\/i\u003e and Hardt and Negri's \u003ci\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e, the names of, among others, Roberto Esposito, Paolo Virno, Christian Marazzi, and Andrea Fumagalli have recently been brought to the attention of Anglophone scholars and political activists. Several authors have rightly emphasised the evanescent character of biopolitics, and the difficulty in providing a definition of it that could embrace all the conflicting theories of its most celebrated critics and supporters. The present collection is structured around the basic contention that bio-economy, human nature, and Christianity are the three visible contemporary manifestations of the theoretical object\/problem of biopolitics in, respectively, Italian post-workerist economics, post-Marxist philosophical anthropology, and post-stru\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction \u003ci\u003eLorenzo Chiesa \u003c\/i\u003e2. Twenty Theses on Contemporary Capitalism (Cognitive Biocapitalism) \u003ci\u003eAndrea Fumagalli \u003c\/i\u003e3. Dyslexia and the Economy \u003ci\u003eChristian Marazzi \u003c\/i\u003e4. Hunger, Repletion, and Anxiety \u003ci\u003eMassimo Recalcati \u003c\/i\u003e5. The Word and the Flesh: Postworkerism and the Biopolitics of Language in Paolo Virno and Christian Marazzi \u003ci\u003ePietro Bianchi \u003c\/i\u003e6. The Untamed Ontology \u003ci\u003eDavide Tarizzo \u003c\/i\u003e7. The Anthropological Meaning of Infinite Regression \u003ci\u003ePaolo Virno \u003c\/i\u003e8. Politics and Human Nature \u003ci\u003eRoberto Esposito \u003c\/i\u003e9. Affirmative Biopolitics and Human Nature in Franco Basaglia’s Thought \u003ci\u003eAlvise Sforza Tarabochia \u003c\/i\u003e10. The Bio-Theo-Politics of Birth \u003ci\u003eLorenzo Chiesa \u003c\/i\u003e11. Angels \u003ci\u003eGiorgio Agamben \u003c\/i\u003e12. Divine Management: Critical Remarks on Giorgio Agamben’s \u003ci\u003eThe Kingdom and the Glory Alberto Toscano \u003c\/i\u003e13. Giorgio Agamben’s Godless Saints: Saving What Was Not \u003ci\u003eJelica Šumič \u003c\/i\u003e14. Kafka’s Land Surveyor K.: Agamben’s Anti-\u003ci\u003eMuselmann\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBoštjan Nedoh \u003c\/i\u003e15. The Event of Language as Force of Life: Agamben’s Linguistic Vitalism \u003ci\u003eLorenzo Chiesa Frank Ruda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885287518551,"sku":"9781138377639","price":47.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138377639.jpg?v=1722535743","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/italian-thought-today-9781138377639","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}