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List of contents
Introduction, Michael Lewis and David Rose (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Part I: The Historical Context
1. Dante
2. Pico della Mirandola
3. Niccolò Machiavelli
4. Giordano Bruno
5. Giambattista Vico
6. Benedetto Croce
7. Giovanni Gentile
8. Antonio Gramsci
9. Phenomenology and Marxism in Milan
10. Luigi Pareyson
Part II: Contemporary thinkers
11. Giorgio Agamben
12. Massimo Cacciari
13. Adriana Cavarero
14. Roberto Esposito
15. Silvia Federici
16. Maurizio Ferraris
17. Simona Forti
18. Maurizio Lazzarato
19. Christian Marazzi
20. Luisa Muraro
21. Antonio Negri
22. Massimo Recalcati
23. Emanuele Severino
24. Davide Tarizzo
25. Mario Tronti
26. Gianni Vattimo
27. Paolo Virno
Timeline
Index
About the author
Michael Lewis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle, UK.David Rose is Professor of Social Ethics at Newcastle University, UK.
Summary
Italian philosophy constitutes one of the most vibrant and fruitful areas in contemporary thought, bringing extraordinary novelty to some of the oldest tropes, from human nature to the relation between political power and life, the thinking of actuality and potential, and the nature of work and labour.
This reader includes texts by the most renowned thinkers, from Dante and Machiavelli to Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, and Roberto Esposito, all of which are introduced by an expert on the particular thinker, and situated within the context of their work as a whole.
The Bloomsbury Italian Philosophy Reader provides a unique resource for students and scholars alike, covering the history of Italian thought to the present day.
Foreword
A comprehensive collection of writings from prominent Italian thinkers from the Renaissance to the present day
Additional text
This welcome volume cohesively brings together some of the major thinkers of the history of Italian philosophy, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to the contemporary period. Readings are introduced by brief informative essays written by specialists that act as useful philosophical mind-maps for readers. The excerpts from primary writings capture central positions and ideas that have come to shape and influence readers and thinkers from around the world. The book helps provide an important survey of the rich and varied schools that have come to form Italian philosophy.
