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Taylor & Francis Ltd Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci
Book SynopsisThis book marks a missed encounter between two of the most influential Marxist thinkers of our age, Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci, studied here for the first time side by side.Benjamin and Gramsci were contemporaries, whose births and deaths took place within a few years of each other in Western Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Two Marxists sui generis, they radically changed Marxism's themes and vocabulary, profoundly influencing the most significant analyses and debates. At a time in which Marxism was considered to be outdated and in crisis, both Gramsci's and Benjamin's thoughts provided resources for its renewal: particularly in postcolonial studies for Gramsci and in new media studies for Benjamin. Both were victims of fascism, on the threshold of the catastrophe of the Second World War. These two philosophers' posthumous fortune depended on the transmission of their thought, which was first entrusted to friends and comrades, and then to entire ge
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Verso Books The Age of Precarity: Endless Crisis as an Art of
Book SynopsisCrisis dominates the present historical moment. The economy is in crisis, politics in both its past and present forms is in crisis and our own individual lives are in crisis, made vulnerable by the fluctuations of the labor market and by the undoing of social and political ties we inherited from modernity. Yet, traditional views of crises as just temporary setbacks do not seem to hold any longer; this crisis seems permanent, with no way out and no alternatives on the horizon. Reconstructing a political genealogy of the term from the Greek world to today's neoliberalism, this book demonstrates that crisis, understood as a "choice" between revolution and conservation, is a peculiarity of the modern era that does not apply to the present day. However, since its origin, the trope of crisis has proven to be one of the most effective instruments of social discipline and administration. The analytical trajectory followed by this book - which spans from Plato to Hayek, from the juridical and medical science of antiquity to the current technocracy, passing through the "weapons of criticism" of Marx and Gramsci - finally identifies, following Benjamin and Foucault, precariousness as the "form of life" that characterizes crisis understood as an art of government. But we still need to answer the question: "How can we recreate the possibility of political alternatives?"Trade ReviewDario Gentili's book on crisis is one of the first genealogies of a concept that nowadays is crucial. In this way, through the rigorous analysis of the term, he captures an uncharted aspect of our contemporary condition -- Roberto EspositoThere is a crisis, there is no alternative. This is the rhetorical strategy through which governments across the world justify and legitimize unpopular political and economic decisions in this age, the age of precarity. Dario Gentili's illuminating genealogical reconstruction of the dispositive of crisis is an indispensable tool to understand and contrast the very specific art of government implicit in today's globally predominant neoliberal policies."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">There is a crisis, there is no alternative. This is the rhetorical strategy through which governments across the world justify and legitimize unpopular political and economic decisions in this age, the age of precarity. Dario Gentili's illuminating genealogical reconstruction of the dispositive of crisis is an indispensable tool to understand and contrast the very specific art of government implicit in today's globally predominant neoliberal policies. -- Elettra StimilliDario Gentili's superb The Age of Precarity takes a concept ubiquitous in contemporary left political and social theory, precarity, and endows it with new life and explanatory power. Deftly drawing on thinkers from Plato to Benjamin, Gramsci to Foucault, Schmitt to Hayek, Gentili diagnoses a present where crisis generates an 'art of government' of precarious life, and calls against a politics as a fight-to-the-death between forms of life, for a new politics of shared forms of life through which power is expressed in common. -- Matteo Mandarini, Queen Mary University of LondonDario Gentili's book on crisis is one of the first genealogies of a concept that nowadays is crucial. Through the rigorous analysis of the term, he captures an uncharted aspect of our contemporary condition. -- Roberto Esposito, author of Communitas"There is a crisis, there is no alternative." This is the rhetorical strategy through which governments across the world justify and legitimize unpopular political and economic decisions in this age, the age of precarity. Dario Gentili's illuminating genealogical reconstruction of the dispositive of crisis is an indispensable tool helping us to understand and contrast the very specific art of government implicit in today's globally predominant neoliberal policies -- Elettra Stimilli, author of Debt and GuiltDario Gentili's radical and rigorous work offers a magisterial analysis of the figure of crisis, which so much seems to define our current socio-political situation. By tracing an intellectual counter-history of this concept and proposing a novel theorization of it as an art of government, The Age of Precarity stands out as a benchmark text across contemporary debates in critical thought and one that we need to understand present-day practices of administration under neoliberal governance. -- Andrea Mura, Goldsmiths, University of LondonDario Gentili has, through an analysis of the language of crisis, shown how its inscription into the discourse of contemporary politics has diminished its force. The language of crisis has been legitimized. In its place he proposes a rethinking of conflict. The political is then recast in terms of life. Freed of the debilitating effect of the equation of life with the biological Gentile proposes a genuine biopolitics. The point of departure is the recovery of that which has been rendered precarious in the name of a new form of commonality. -- Andrew Benjamin, University of Technology, Sydney
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Rowman & Littlefield International Italian Critical Thought: Genealogies and
Book SynopsisItalian philosophical and political thought has been receiving ever-growing attention in international debates. This has mainly been driven by the revival of the Italian neo- and post-Marxist tradition and of the Italian interpretation of French Theory, in particular of Foucault's biopolitics. So, is it now possible to speak of an 'Italian Theory' or an 'Italian difference' in the context of philosophical and political thought? This book collects together leading names in Italian critical thought to examine the significant contributions that they are giving to contemporary political debates. The first part of the book draws a possible genealogy of the so-called 'Italian Theory', questioning the possibility of grouping together many authors, and political and theoretical approaches which are often reciprocally in conflict. The second part of the book presents certain categories that have become characteristic of Italian Thought for their original interpretation and use by some of the authors recognized as part of the Italian Theory tradition, from biopolitics and political theology to crisis and immanence.Trade ReviewItalian Critical Thought demonstrates that there are theoretical and political alternatives to the grand narratives of neoliberalism; that the vocabulary of globalization, free market, competition, and crisis can be displaced by critical imagination and militant philosophy. This volume provides a necessary toolbox for naming the excess of politics and mobilizing what resists against, or escapes from, the horizon of the nation-state and its categories. -- Federico Luisetti, Professor of Italian Studies, University of St. GallenWhat exactly is Italian thought and how might it help us respond to some of the political and ethical predicaments we face today? In this virtuous collection, Gentili, Stimilli and Garelli have arranged a number of incisive pieces that do justice to the broad and ecumenical perspectives that make up contemporary Italian thought. From autonomia to biopolitics to political theology and its critique, the snapshot that emerges of Italian thought is one of a powerful ontology and immanence able to enhance difference in a political moment that sorely needs it. It also happens to be a wonderful introduction for those new to Italian philosophy. -- Timothy C. Campbell, Professor in the Department of Romance Studies, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Alternative Narrative and Political Operation, Dario Gentili and Elettra Stimilli / Part One: Genealogies / Chapter 1: German Philosophy, French Theory, Italian Though, Roberto Esposito / Chapter 2: Post-operaism? No, Operaism, Toni Negri / Chapter 3: Italian Theory? Elements for a Genealogy, Sandro Chignola / Chapter 4: Italian Theory and its Differences: Subjectivation, Historicization, Conflict, Judith Revel / Chapter 5: Old Courses in New Countries, Mario Tronti / Part Two: Categories / Chapter 6: A World to Gain. On the Borders of Theory, Sandro Mezzadra / Chapter 7: Politics and Philosophy in Italian Radical Thought, Elettra Stimilli / Chapter 8: The Crisis Dispositive: Political Theology and Biopolitics, Dario Gentili / Chapter 9: Inhabiting Immanence. The Logic, History and Politics of an Italian Thought’s Concept, Roberto Ciccarelli
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Rowman & Littlefield International Italian Critical Thought: Genealogies and
Book SynopsisItalian philosophical and political thought has been receiving ever-growing attention in international debates. This has mainly been driven by the revival of the Italian neo- and post-Marxist tradition and of the Italian interpretation of French Theory, in particular of Foucault's biopolitics. So, is it now possible to speak of an 'Italian Theory' or an 'Italian difference' in the context of philosophical and political thought? This book collects together leading names in Italian critical thought to examine the significant contributions that they are giving to contemporary political debates. The first part of the book draws a possible genealogy of the so-called 'Italian Theory', questioning the possibility of grouping together many authors, and political and theoretical approaches which are often reciprocally in conflict. The second part of the book presents certain categories that have become characteristic of Italian Thought for their original interpretation and use by some of the authors recognized as part of the Italian Theory tradition, from biopolitics and political theology to crisis and immanence.Trade ReviewItalian Critical Thought demonstrates that there are theoretical and political alternatives to the grand narratives of neoliberalism; that the vocabulary of globalization, free market, competition, and crisis can be displaced by critical imagination and militant philosophy. This volume provides a necessary toolbox for naming the excess of politics and mobilizing what resists against, or escapes from, the horizon of the nation-state and its categories. -- Federico Luisetti, Professor of Italian Studies, University of St. GallenWhat exactly is Italian thought and how might it help us respond to some of the political and ethical predicaments we face today? In this virtuous collection, Gentili, Stimilli and Garelli have arranged a number of incisive pieces that do justice to the broad and ecumenical perspectives that make up contemporary Italian thought. From autonomia to biopolitics to political theology and its critique, the snapshot that emerges of Italian thought is one of a powerful ontology and immanence able to enhance difference in a political moment that sorely needs it. It also happens to be a wonderful introduction for those new to Italian philosophy. -- Timothy C. Campbell, Professor in the Department of Romance Studies, Cornell UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction, Dario Gentili and Elettra Stimilli / Part 1: Italian Theory? / 2. German Philosophy, French Theory, Italian Thought, Roberto Esposito / 3. About Italian Theory, Antonio Negri / 4. In a new country through old courses, Mario Tronti / 5. Italian Theory? Elements for a Genealogy, Sandro Chignola / 6. Italian Theory and its Differences. Subjectification, Historicization, Conflict, Judith Revel / 7. A World to Gain. About the Borders of "Theory", Sandro Mezzadra / Part 2: Categories / 8. Politics and Philosophy between Biopolitics and Political Theology, Elettra Stimilli / 9. The Dispositive of Crisis. Political Theology and Biopolitics, Dario Gentili / 10. Inhabiting Immanence. A Concept's Logic, History, and Politics in Italian Thought, Roberto Ciccarelli
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Universitatsverlag Winter Der Kult Des Kapitals: Kapitalismus Und Religion
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