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Thinking Italian Animals

Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film

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  • © 2014

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Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Ontologies and Thresholds

  3. Biopolitics and Historical Crisis

  4. Ecologies and Hybridizations

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This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world.

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"Animals and the Posthuman in Italian Literature and Film is an elegant and musing collection on what it means to be alive and thinking today. The volume contains a wonderful preface by Italian philosopher, Roberto Marchesini , who sets out the stakes of the work beautifully. Indeed, it has been a long time since I've come across such a powerful combination of erudition, cutting-edge readings of continential philosophy, and, though this may seem surprising given the title, humanity." - Timothy Campbell, Professor of Italian Studies and Chair of Romance Studies, Cornell University, USA

About the authors

Roberto Marchesini, Scuola d'interazione uomo animale, Italy Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University, USA Gregory Pell, Hofstra University, USA Simone Castaldi, Hofstra University, USA Matteo Gilebbi, Duke University, USA Alexandra Hills, University College London, UK Giuseppina Mecchia, University of Pittsburgh, USA Daniele Fioretti, University of Miami, Ohio, USA Valentina Fulginiti, University of Toronto, Canada David Del Principe, Montclair State University, USA Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Franklin and Marshall College, USA Serenella Iovino, University of Turin, Italy

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