Cimatti F., Salzani C. (eds.) Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 358 p. — (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series). — ISBN: 978-3-030-47506-2, 978-3-030-47507-9.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. Provides an overview of contemporary Italian philosophy from the perspective of animallity Combines historical-descriptive chapters with analyses of the theme in several philosophical branches, including biopolitics, Posthumanism, Marxism, Feminism , Antispecism, and Theology Includes original essays from renowned scholars of contemporary Italian philosophy, such as: Laura Bazzicalupo, Leonardo Caffo, Roberto Marchesini, Massimo Filippi and Valentina Sonzogni 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.Introduction: The Italian Animal—A Heterodox Tradition
Felice Cimatti and Carlo SalzaniAnimality in the Italian Tradition
Animality and Immanence in Italian Thought
Felice Cimatti
Aldo Capitini, Animal Ethics, and Nonviolence:.The Expanding Circle
Luisella Battaglia
What Is Italian Antispeciesism? An Overview of Recent Tendencies in Animal Advocacy
Giorgio Losi and Niccolò BertuzziAnimality in Perspective
Beyond Human and Animal: Giorgio Agamben and Life as Potential
Carlo Salzani
Deconstructing the Dispositif of the Person: Animality and the Politics of Life in the Philosophy of Roberto Esposito
Matías Saidel and Diego Rossello
Animality Between Italian Theory and Posthumanism
Giovanni Leghissa
For the Critique of Political Anthropocentrism: Italian Marxism and the Animal Question
Marco Maurizi
Experiencing Oneself in One’s Constitutive Relation: Unfolding Italian Sexual Difference
Federica Giardini
Paolo De Benedetti: For an Animal Theology
Alma MassaroFragments of a Contemporary Debate
“Il faut bien tuer,” or the Calculation of the Abattoir
Massimo Filippi
Philosophical Ethology and Animal Subjectivity
Roberto Marchesini
From Renaissance Ferinity to the Biopolitics of the Animal-Man: Animality as Political Battlefield in the Anthropocene
Laura Bazzicalupo
The Animal Is Present: Non-human Animal Bodies in Recent Italian Art
Valentina Sonzogni
Animality Now
Leonardo Caffo