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Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

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Editors:
  1. Felice Cimatti

    1. University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

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  2. Carlo Salzani

    1. Messerli Research Institute, Vienna, Austria

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  • 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

Part of the book series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series (PMAES)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: The Italian Animal—A Heterodox Tradition

    • Felice Cimatti, Carlo Salzani
    Pages 1-18

  3. Animality in the Italian Tradition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Animality and Immanence in Italian Thought

      • Felice Cimatti
      Pages 21-49

    3. Aldo Capitini, Animal Ethics, and Nonviolence: The Expanding Circle

      • Luisella Battaglia
      Pages 51-70

    4. What Is Italian Antispeciesism? An Overview of Recent Tendencies in Animal Advocacy

      • Giorgio Losi, Niccolò Bertuzzi
      Pages 71-93

  5. Fragments of a Contemporary Debate

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. “Il faut bien tuer,” or the Calculation of the Abattoir

      • Massimo Filippi
      Pages 223-242

    3. Philosophical Ethology and Animal Subjectivity

      • Roberto Marchesini
      Pages 243-261

    4. From Renaissance Ferinity to the Biopolitics of the Animal-Man: Animality as Political Battlefield in the Anthropocene

      • Laura Bazzicalupo
      Pages 263-280

    5. The Animal Is Present: Non-human Animal Bodies in Recent Italian Art

      • Valentina Sonzogni
      Pages 281-302

    6. Animality Now

      • Leonardo Caffo
      Pages 303-322

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 323-341
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About this book

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.


Reviews

“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)


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

    Felice Cimatti

  • Messerli Research Institute, Vienna, Austria

    Carlo Salzani

About the editors

 

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.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

  • Editors: Felice Cimatti, Carlo Salzani

  • Series Title: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47507-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47506-2Published: 04 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47509-3Published: 04 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47507-9Published: 03 September 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6672

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6680

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 341

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophical Traditions, Comparative Literature, Environmental Philosophy

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