Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: The Ferment of Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy by Antonio Calcagno......Page 10
Notes......Page 18
1. Biological Life and Political Life by Roberto Esposito......Page 20
2. Nothing in Common: Esposito and Vattimo on Community by Robert T. Valgenti......Page 32
A Positive Nothing......Page 33
A Weaker Nothing......Page 38
Nothing in Common......Page 42
Notes......Page 45
3. Roberto Esposito and the Relation between the Personal and the Impersonal by Antonio Calcagno......Page 48
Esposito’s Argument......Page 49
The Possibility of the Impersonal?......Page 57
Notes......Page 60
4. Narrating the Self through the Other: On the Thought of Adriana Cavarero by Elvira Roncalli......Page 62
Dislocation and Disfigured Relations......Page 64
The Narratable Self and “Il sapore familiare” del se—The Familiar Taste of Oneself: Another Kind of Dislocation?......Page 67
She, “The Necessary Other”—You, (Tu), Who Look at Me and Tell of Me......Page 72
“Inassimilable, Unsubstitutable, Unrepeatable”......Page 78
Notes......Page 80
Introduction: The Italian Feminist Context......Page 84
The Italian Version of Consciousness-Raising......Page 87
From Consciousness-Raising to the Practice of Unconscious......Page 91
The Structure of Power in Groups of Women......Page 93
Masculine and Feminine in Groups of Women......Page 95
The Answers of Feminism......Page 96
Sexuality and Symbolic: From the Spoken Word to Writing......Page 97
Still Missing......Page 101
Notes......Page 103
6. Luce Fabbri: Anarchism as an Art of Living by Margareth Rago......Page 108
The Critique of Power and the State......Page 110
Anarchism as an Art of Living......Page 113
Asserting the Anarchism of the Twenty-first Century......Page 118
Notes......Page 124
The Politics of the Unpolitical......Page 128
Heroes of Indecision......Page 135
The Genealogy of Europe......Page 138
Notes......Page 146
8. Trauma and Political Existence: Remo Bodei on Not Confronting  Delusion by Alexander U. Bertland......Page 148
Delusion and Personal Identity......Page 149
Delusion and the Threat of Colonization......Page 156
Philosophical Therapy......Page 162
Notes......Page 166
The Biological Invariant......Page 170
Language and Post-Fordism......Page 172
Signifying Production Information......Page 176
Multitude, Individuation, Exile......Page 180
The Limit, Excess, and the Possible......Page 184
Notes......Page 187
Introduction: Silence and Life......Page 188
Life as Possibility......Page 190
The Nondialectical Potency of Thought......Page 192
Life at the Threshold......Page 193
Living Nondialectic Anachronism: Contemporaneity from a Latin American Perspective......Page 195
A Golden Age......Page 196
The Coloniality of the Sovereign Exception......Page 197
Unbridled Realities......Page 201
Notes......Page 205
11. Happy Depression: Franco Berardi and the Unpaid Bills of Desire by Gary Genosko......Page 208
We, the Defeated......Page 209
Enjoy Your Self-Loathing......Page 212
Felix and Félix......Page 213
Unhappy Depression: Fragile and Sexy......Page 215
The Potential of Depression......Page 216
Impotent Greens......Page 217
Depressive Technologies......Page 219
Conclusion......Page 220
Notes......Page 222
Form......Page 226
Labor......Page 229
Abstract Labor......Page 233
Value Form......Page 237
Money Form......Page 238
General Intellect......Page 242
Notes......Page 245
13. The Risk of Subjectivity: Negri beyond Adorno by Timothy S. Murphy......Page 252
Against Positivism......Page 255
Administered Life and Instrumental Reason......Page 260
Class Composition and Self-Valorization......Page 263
The Test of Empiricism......Page 267
Conclusion......Page 269
Notes......Page 271
14. Antonio Negri—On the Trail of New Social Subjects by Pierre Lamarche......Page 280
Toni Negri, the Italian New Left, and the Tradition of Autonomist Marxism......Page 283
A Machiavellian Negri, and a Quarrel with Agamben—Italian Political Philosophy......Page 292
Notes......Page 298
Contributors......Page 306
Index......Page 310