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Author:   Lorenzo Chiesa (University of Kent, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9780415748742

ISBN 10:   0415748747
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   10 April 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Lorenzo Chiesa 2. Twenty Theses on Contemporary Capitalism (Cognitive Biocapitalism) Andrea Fumagalli 3. Dyslexia and the Economy Christian Marazzi 4. Hunger, Repletion, and Anxiety Massimo Recalcati 5. The Word and the Flesh: Postworkerism and the Biopolitics of Language in Paolo Virno and Christian Marazzi Pietro Bianchi 6. The Untamed Ontology Davide Tarizzo 7. The Anthropological Meaning of Infinite Regression Paolo Virno 8. Politics and Human Nature Roberto Esposito 9. Affirmative Biopolitics and Human Nature in Franco Basaglia’s Thought Alvise Sforza Tarabochia 10. The Bio-Theo-Politics of Birth Lorenzo Chiesa 11. Angels Giorgio Agamben 12. Divine Management: Critical Remarks on Giorgio Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory Alberto Toscano 13. Giorgio Agamben’s Godless Saints: Saving What Was Not Jelica Šumič 14. Kafka’s Land Surveyor K.: Agamben’s Anti-Muselmann Boštjan Nedoh 15. The Event of Language as Force of Life: Agamben’s Linguistic Vitalism Lorenzo Chiesa Frank Ruda

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Lorenzo Chiesa is Professor of Modern European Thought and co-director of the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent, UK. His most recent publications include Subjectivity and Otherness (2007), The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics (2009) (co-edited with Alberto Toscano), and the English translation of Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory (2011).

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