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Offers a more complex picture of Roberto Esposito's notion of ""Italian Thought"" in order to examine the persisting crisis of contemporary Italian philosophy. The present volume intends to offer new insight into Roberto Esposito's seminal notion of ""Italian Thought."" In Esposito's understanding, Italian Thought would offer an innovative bridge between French and German philosophy. As distinguished from French postmodernism and German transcendentalism in communication ethics, Italian Thought would allow for a better negotiation between power, history, and life. The essays within The Resistible Crisis of Italian Thought do not share Esposito's optimism but rather argue that the fascinating notion of Italian Thought unfortunately only provides a selective representation and neglects several portions of it, such as Italian metaphysicians, political scientists, feminists, and art theorists. Motivated by the ambition to address this neglect and to offer a more complex insight that does not necessarily end with the reassuring representation offered by Esposito, this volume points us toward an examination of the persisting crisis of contemporary Italian philosophy.

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Author:   Federico Dal Bo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) ,  Carlo Salzani (Messerli Research Institute)
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
ISBN:  

9798855805383

Pages:   310
Publication Date:   02 August 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Complicating the Paradigm(s) Federico Dal Bo and Carlo Salzani Part 1 Metaphysics and Politics 1. The Society Without Government and the Recovery of Political Praxis: Alessandro Biral Between Crisis and Politics Ivan Dimitrijevic´ 2. Discomfort in the Italian Operaism: The Nietzschean Legacy in the Work of Nicola Massimo De Feo Roberto Nigro 3. A Marxian Political Theology of Nihilism: Costanzo Preve and Domenico Losurdo on Marx's Historical Materialism Federico Dal Bo 4. Ontological Personalism in Luigi Pareyson's Political Thought Emanuele Curcio 5. Is Metaphysics Totalitarian? First Remarks on Politics and Metaphysics in Emanuele Severino Antimo Lucarelli Part 2 Metaphysics, Aesthetics, and Beyond 6. Italian Theory as Italian Cultural Studies: A Genealogical Perspective Antonio Lucci 7. A Situationist in the Years of Lead: Gianfranco Sanguinetti's Theory of the State Mia Gonan 8. An Inorganic Intellectual: Mario Perniola and the Aesthetic Horizon Enea Bianchi 9. Against Emancipation and Revolution: Carla Lonzi's Feminist Political Theory Olivia Guaraldo 10. Adriana Cavarero's Public Ethics of Care: Plural Uniqueness, Narratability, Vulnerability Valentina Moro Part 3 Metaphysics and Life 11. Use Without Care? Feminist Cautions Against Agamben's Call for ""Politics as Intimacy"" Lucile Richard 12. The Crisis of a Paradigm: Agamben's Misunderstanding of the COVID-19 Pandemic Carlo Salzani 13. Competitive Narratives of Life in Italian Thought: Affirmative Biopolitics as a New Humanism? Oana S,erban 14. What the Thought Does Not Think: Roberto Esposito and Massimo Donà on Negation Michele Ricciotti Contributors Index

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""The Resistible Crisis of Italian Thought makes a significant contribution to the study of Italian philosophy, notably by critically engaging with the dominant framework established by Roberto Esposito. The volume's individual chapters examine Italian political and metaphysical thought through a diverse array of themes, including political praxis, ontological personalism, biopolitics, aesthetics, and feminism. In doing so, it presents Italian philosophy as a more nuanced and pluralistic field than Esposito's framing allows."" — Paolo Diego Bubbio, University of Turin

Author Information

Federico Dal Bo is Senior Lecturer at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. He has published many books, including Judaism, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis in Heidegger's Ontology: Harrowing the Heath. Carlo Salzani is Research Fellow at the Messerli Research Institute of Vienna. He is the author and editor of many works, including Agamben and the Animal.

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