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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Felice Cimatti , Carlo SalzaniPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2020 Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9783030475093ISBN 10: 3030475093 Pages: 341 Publication Date: 04 September 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. 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 Niccolò 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 CaffoReviewsA number of superb essays that articulate a distinctively Italian philosophical approach to animal issues and animal studies. For those readers who come to animal philosophy primarily through Anglo-American analytic philosophy ... or through Continental-style animal studies ... this volume should be of serious interest - for not only does the Italian tradition explored here anticipate and intersect with major themes in both traditions, it also introduces novel themes and concepts that are important for considering the future of animal studies. (Matthew Calarco, Animal Studies Journal, Vol. 10 (2), 2021) Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy is in fact an important contribution as it introduces a large international audience to authors, ideas, and practices that have characterised (and still characterise) Italian thought, both challenging and enriching the current hegemonic discourses on animal ethics. (Damiano Benvegnu, Italian Studies, Vol. 76 (3), 2021) Author InformationFelice Cimatti is Full Professor in Philosophy of Language and Mind at the University of Calabria, Italy. Carlo Salzani is Guest Scholar at the Messerli Research Institute of the University of Vienna, Austria. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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