Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Italian Animal—A Heterodox Tradition
	1 Little History of a Belatedness
	2 Philosophy and the Outside
	3 Res Naturalis
	4 On the Structure of This Volume
	Works Cited
Part I: Animality in the Italian Tradition
	Chapter 2: Animality and Immanence in Italian Thought
		1 Anti-Cartesians Before Descartes
		2 Animal Brother
		3 Angels, Bees, and Worms
		4 “Poetic Wisdom”
		Works Cited
	Chapter 3: Aldo Capitini, Animal Ethics, and Nonviolence: The Expanding Circle
		1 Open Religion
		2 Vegetarianism and Nonviolence
		3 An Ethics of Care
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4: What Is Italian Antispeciesism? An Overview of Recent Tendencies in Animal Advocacy
		1 Introduction
		2 The Italian Rebus
		3 Defining the Concepts
		4 Mainstream Positions
		5 Radical Approaches
		6 Conclusion
		Works Cited
Part II: Animality in Perspective
	Chapter 5: Beyond Human and Animal: Giorgio Agamben and Life as Potential
		1 Deferral
		2 Lingering Anthropocentrism
		3 Animal Again
		4 Life and/as Potential
		Works Cited
	Chapter 6: Deconstructing the Dispositif of the Person: Animality and the Politics of Life in the Philosophy of Roberto Esposito
		1 Introduction
		2 Politics, Life, and Historicity: The Centaur and the Leviathan
		3 Personhood, Animalization, and Politics Over Life
		4 Deconstructing Personhood: Toward an Impersonal Community
		5 Concluding Remarks
		Works Cited
	Chapter 7: Animality Between Italian Theory and Posthumanism
		1 Animality and Posthumanism
		2 Calvino between literature and cybernetics
		3 The identification with the animal other
		4 Agamben and the politics of the living
		Works Cited
	Chapter 8: For the Critique of Political Anthropocentrism: Italian Marxism and the Animal Question
		1 Introduction
		2 Animality and Materialism
			2.1 Marx’s and Engels’ Dialectical Theory of Animality
			2.2 Animality in Italian “Orthodox” Marxism
			2.3 Developments in Post-War Italian Communism
		3 Ecology, Ethology, and Antispeciesism
		4 Animality and Post-Workerism
		5 Animality in Italian Adornoism
		Works Cited
	Chapter 9: Experiencing Oneself in One’s Constitutive Relation: Unfolding Italian Sexual Difference
		1 The Passion According to G.H. according to Muraro, Cavarero, and Braidotti
			1.1 A Failure, an Opportunity
			1.2 Countering the Canon
			1.3 A Materialist Difference
		2 Unfolding Difference, Politics, and the Animal
			2.1 Canonical Zoopolitics
			2.2 Alterations of the Canon
			2.3 Concerning a Failure in Being Fully Human
			2.4 The Constitutive Relation as a Dynamic Topology
			2.5 Rethinking Politics in a Topological Space
		Works Cited
	Chapter 10: Paolo De Benedetti: For an Animal Theology
		1 A Short Biography of Paolo De Benedetti
		2 Broad Outlines of De Benedetti’s Thought
		3 Animal Theology
		4 Conclusions
		Addendum
		Works Cited
Part III: Fragments of a Contemporary Debate
	Chapter 11: “Il faut bien tuer,” or the Calculation of the Abattoir
		1 The Algorithm of the Calculation
		2 The Mathematics of Sacrifice
		3 The Remnant of the Good
		Works Cited
	Chapter 12: Philosophical Ethology and Animal Subjectivity
		1 Introduction
		2 Going Beyond the Automatism Model
		3 The Error of Animal as a Term of Contraposition
		4 Redefining Animality
		Works Cited
	Chapter 13: From Renaissance Ferinity to the Biopolitics of the Animal-Man: Animality as Political Battlefield in the Anthropocene
		1 Animality: Genealogy of the Question
		2 Troubling the Humanist Dichotomy: Machiavelli, Vico, and the Ontology of Immanence in Bruno and Spinoza
		3 Practices and Theories of Human Animalization: Animality as Manageability
		4 Radical Criticism of Domination: Capitalocene and Intersectionality of Oppression
		5 The Libertarian Trace of the Cynical Parresiast
		Works Cited
	Chapter 14: The Animal Is Present: Non-human Animal Bodies in Recent Italian Art
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		Works Cited
	Chapter 15: Animality Now
		1 Perspectives
		2 Dichotomies
		3 Rooms
		4 Limits
		5 A Cat
		6 Zen
		7 Life
		8 For Example, One Might Go Stand by a Frozen Lake …
			8.1 Lakes
		9 Possibilities
		10 Animal Attempts
		11 (Bio)powers
		12 Ante-inferno
		13 Inferno
		14 Descriptions of Hell
		15 Malaise
		16 The End
		Works Cited
Index