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A-Democracy
This volume examines the rise and apparent fall of 'neo-liberalism' by analyzing today's current climate, dominated by a range of political mediatic populisms that run across the contemporary political scene, and the failure of the multicultural paradigm in terms of the Lockean concept of tolerance.
Boundary Lines
In this book, Emanuela Fornari systematically examines the philosophical implications of postcolonial studies. She considers postcolonial critique not as a school or a current of thought but rather as a multiform constellation that—from the celebrated Orientalism of Edward Said to the contributions of authors like Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Ranajit Guha, and Dipesh Chakrabarty—has called into question the assumptions that underlie key concepts in the history of philosophy. Fornari addresses themes such as history and memory, borders, the subject, and translation, engaging classical authors such as Kant, Hegel, and Marx alongside more contemporary theorizations by authors such as Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Étienne Balibar, and Jacques Rancière.
Marxism and Left-Wing Politics in Europe and Iran
This book reveals aspects of the rise and fall of the European and Iranian Left, their conceptualization of Marxism and ideological formations. Questions regarding the Left and Marxism within two seemingly different economic, political and intellectual and cultural contexts require comprehensive comparative histories of the two settings. This project investigates the intellectual transformations, which the European and Iranian Left have experienced after the Russian Revolution to the present. It examines the impacts of these transformations on their conceptualizations of history and revolution, domination and ideology, emancipation and universality, democracy and equality. The monograph will appeal to researchers, scholars and graduate students in the fields of political science, Middle Eastern and European studies, political history and comparative politics.
Embodiment and Cultural Differences
Embodiment and Cultural Differences focuses on the body as the equilibrium limit between the memory of time already passed and the dynamic where of unexpected happenings. The body’s ecology is fulfilled in the surrounding environment within this variable limit. Each embodiment operation is, in fact, an experimental setting that consists of the unrepeatable executive instants through which, like a musical score, the body synchronises human consciousness with the context of action. What distinguishes the architecture of this book is that, collectively, it constitutes a challenge to the digital media paradigm, in which the body is treated simply as a two dimensional icon of space and time; a ...
Towards a New Concept of the Political
This book addresses the current crisis of democratic politics and its phase of ‘interregnum’ – in which the past finds it hard to die and the future finds it difficult to be born – by proposing a radical redefinition of the concept of the Political. Drawing on the thoughts of Antonio Gramsci and Walter Benjamin among others, it explores the meaning of the lemma auctoritas – the opposition between authority and power – and offers a comparison of the Frankfurt School’s radical critique of power with Georges Bataille’s critique of political economy and consumerist productivism, demonstrating how the two ultimately converge. Based on an ontology of the present that is critical of ‘identity obsession’ and advances instead a universalism of difference, the author proposes a new understanding of politics founded not on ‘vertical’ domination but on a ‘horizontal’ recomposition of subjectivities, allowing interaction and acting-in-common between different forms of life. This book will therefore appeal to scholars of social and political theory.
Decolonizing Liberation Theologies
The publication of this volume marks the Ten Year Anniversary of the Postcolonialism and Religions series. In intersectional and interdisciplinary perspectives, the chapters of this book constitute a complex whole: a volume that does justice to the justice-seeking origins of Latin American Liberation Theology, philosophy, and sociology as it emerged in the 1960s-70s and its development to the present. What drives this book is a common spirit and conviction: Liberation Theologies of the Global South remain relevant to the sociocultural and geopolitical contexts of today, which remain ensconced in the dynamics, exclusions, and resistances that gave rise to Liberation Theologies six decades ago. Today we may speak of interculturality, of borderlands, of in-betweenness, in ways that complicate, confirm, affirm, and interrogate the “underside of history”, and the spaces that are marginalized but de-centered centers of liberation struggle — within, alongside, underneath, over-against societal projects that claim and exclude them, and that represent some of the actual challenges and opportunities to liberation.
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Negli ultimi vent’anni del Novecento una revisione radicale e destabilizzante ha coinvolto i presupposti etnocentrici del pensiero antropologico, filosofico e politico dell’Occidente. Stava cambiando la geopolitica del pianeta e cominciava a vacillare la proiezione sulle altre culture delle nostre categorie di soggettività, storia, sovranità, cittadinanza, universalità, emancipazione. Il nuovo assetto ha sollecitato il fiorire di studi cosiddetti «postcoloniali», accomunati dalla pratica del contagio. Da allora la contaminazione fra concezioni a prima vista inconciliabili della vita associata appare più proficua dell’arroccamento difensivo, mentre il migrare di concetti e princip...
Cybercapitalismo
Il cybercapitalismo denota una linea d’ombra, una soglia epocale che indica non solo la fine del capitalismo classico, ma anche la crisi dell’odierna economia finanziaria. Questo libro è una genealogia del presente: in un mondo sempre più influenzato dal web e dall’intelligenza artificiale, l’intento è quello di scorgerne gli antefatti, in un lungo tragitto della modernità che prende avvio sin dall’epoca rinascimentale, con quel crollo delle certezze e del senso delle cose che – da Montaigne a Shakespeare, a Donne – viene posto in rapporto con un mondo «acentrico», reso sempre più contingente, precario e imprevedibile dall’irruzione dell’«oro mobile», dalla circola...
