Animality in contemporary Italian philosophy
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Animality in contemporary Italian philosophy
(The Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
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This volume provides an overview of contemporary Italian philosophy from the perspective of animality. Its rationale rests on two main premises: the great topicality of both Italian contemporary philosophy (the so-called "Italian Theory") and of the animal question (the so-called "animal turn" in the humanities and the social sciences) in the contemporary philosophical panorama. The volume not only intersects these two axes, illuminating Italian Theory through the animal question, but also proposes an original thesis: that the animal question is a central and founding issue of contemporary Italian philosophy. It combines historical-descriptive chapters with analyses of the theme in several philosophical branches, such as biopolitics, Posthumanism, Marxism, Feminism, Antispeciesism and Theology, and with original contributions by renowned authors of contemporary Italian (animal) philosophy. The volume is both historical-descriptive and speculative and is intended for a broad academic audience, embracing both Italian studies and Animal studies at all levels.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction - The Italian Animal: A Heterodox Tradition
Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani
Part I: Animality in the Italian Tradition
2. Animality and Immanence in Italian Thought
Felice Cimatti
3. Aldo Capitini, Animal Ethics, and Nonviolence: The Expanding Circle
Luisella Battaglia
4. What is Italian Antispeciesism? An Overview of Recent Tendencies in Animal Advocacy
Giorgio Losi and Niccolo Bertuzzi
Part II: Animality in Perspective
5. Beyond Human and Animal: Giorgio Agamben and Life as Potential
Carlo Salzani
6. Deconstructing the Dispositif of the Person: Animality and the Politics of Life in the Philosophy of Roberto Esposito
Matias Saidel and Diego Rossello
7. Animality Between Italian Theory and Posthumanism
Giovanni Leghissa
8. For the Critique of Political Anthropocentrism: Italian Marxism and the Animal Question
Marco Maurizi
9. Experiencing Oneself in One's Constitutive Relation: Unfolding Italian Sexual Difference
Federica Giardini
10. Paolo De Benedetti: For an Animal Theology
Alma Massaro
Part III: Fragments of a Contemporary Debate
11. "Il faut bien tuer," or the Calculation of the Abattoir
Massimo Filippi
12. Philosophical Ethology and Animal Subjectivities
Roberto Marchesini
13. From Renaissance Ferinity to the Biopolitics of the Animal-Man: Animality as Political Battlefield in the Anthropocene
Laura Bazzicalupo
14. The Animal Is Present: Non-Human Animal Bodies in Recent Italian Art
Valentina Sonzogni
15. Animality Now
Leonardo Caffo
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