Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9783030475093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 360 str.

Opis

This 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.

Recenzje

"A 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 Benvegnù, Italian Studies, Vol. 76 (3), 2021)

Spis treści

1. 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 Caffo

O autorze

 

Felice 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.