Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

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.

Auteur

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.

Contenu

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