Open Borders

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In order to create a greater dialogue between new and emerging Italian philosophy and established continental traditions of thought, Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno bring together the work of well-known figures in Italian philosophy such as Antonio Negri, Roberto Esposito, Remo Bodei, Gianni Vattimo, Massimo Cacciari, and Adriana Cavarero with important thinkers like Schelling, Hegel, Schmitt, Heidegger, Gadamer, Irigaray, Arendt, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, and Foucault. In Open Borders, Benso and Calcagno introduce to a larger English-speaking audience the thought of highly regarded late twentieth-century Italian philosophers who seek to redefine concepts such as freedom, interpretation, existence, woman, male-female relationships, realism, emotions, and aesthetics. The diverse contributors to this book often transgress and redefine the limits and insights of philosophy itself and bring to the fore a new body of thinking that offers new ways of self-understanding while deeply engaging the issues and questions of contemporary society.
Acknowledgments

Open Borders: Introduction
Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno

Part I: Being, Beings, Nothingness

1. Luigi Pareyson's Ontology of Freedom: Encounters with Martin Heidegger and F. W. J. Schelling
Silvia Benso

2. Emanuele Severino versus Western Nihilism (A Guide for the Perplexed)
Alessandro Carrera

3. Increase or Kenosis: Hermeneutic Ontology between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Gianni Vattimo
Gaetano Chiurazzi

Part II: Temporality, Subjectivities, Performances

4. Lingering Gifts of Time: Ugo Perone, Edith Stein, and Martin Heidegger's Philosophical Legacy
Antonio Calcagno

5. Failing to Imagine the Lives of Others: Remo Bodei and Jean-Luc Nancy on Citizenship and Sancho Panza
Alexander U. Bertland

6. A Political Gesture: The Performance of Carlo Sini and Michel Foucault
Enrico Redaelli

Part III: Thinking, Estrangement, Ideologies

7. What Does It Mean to Think? Antonio Gramsci and Gilles Deleuze
Richard A. Lee Jr.

8. Herbert Marcuse in Italy
Michael E. Gardiner

9. Engaging Contemporary Ideology with Mario Perniola, Slavoj Žižek, and Robert Pfaller
Erik M. Vogt

Part IV: Community, Apocalypse, the Political

10. Between the Inoperative and the Coming Community: Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben on the Task of Ontology
María del Rosario Acosta López

11. Who Can Hold the Apocalypse? Massimo Cacciari, Carl Schmitt, and the Katechon
Pietro Pirani

12. Movements or Events? Antonio Negri versus Alain Badiou on Politics
Christian Lotz

Part V: Voices of Difference

13. A Critique of the Forms of Political Action: Carla Lonzi and G. W. F. Hegel
Maria Luisa Boccia

14. C'è Altro: Luisa Muraro on the Symbolic of Sexual Difference along and beyond Luce Irigaray
Elvira Roncalli

15. Adriana Cavarero and Hannah Arendt: Singular Voices and Horrifying Narratives
Peg Birmingham

Part VI: Topology, New Realism, Biopolitics

16. Topology at Play: Vincenzo Vitiello and the Word of Philosophy
Giulio Goria

17. On the Question of the Face of Reality: Addressing the "Myths" of the New Realism and Postmodernity
Rita Šerpytyte

18. Deconstruction or Biopolitics
Roberto Esposito

Contributors
Index

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438482217
• Langue: English

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Open Borders
SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder, editors
Open Borders
Encounters between Italian Philosophy and Continental Thought
Edited by
Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno
Cover image: Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Benso, Silvia, editor. | Calcagno, Antonio, 1969– editor.
Title: Open borders : encounters between Italian philosophy and continental thought / Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021. | Series: SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020019391 | ISBN 9781438482194 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438482217 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Philosophy, Italian. | Continental philosophy.
Classification: LCC B3551 .O64 2021 | DDC 195—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020019391
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Open Borders: Introduction
Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno
Part One: Being, Beings, Nothingness
1. Luigi Pareyson’s Ontology of Freedom: Encounters with Martin Heidegger and F. W. J. Schelling
Silvia Benso
2. Emanuele Severino versus Western Nihilism (A Guide for the Perplexed)
Alessandro Carrera
3. Increase or Kenosis : Hermeneutic Ontology between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Gianni Vattimo
Gaetano Chiurazzi
Part Two: Temporality, Subjectivities, Performances
4. Lingering Gifts of Time: Ugo Perone, Edith Stein, and Martin Heidegger’s Philosophical Legacy
Antonio Calcagno
5. Failing to Imagine the Lives of Others: Remo Bodei and Jean-Luc Nancy on Citizenship and Sancho Panza
Alexander U. Bertland
6. A Political Gesture: The Performance of Carlo Sini and Michel Foucault
Enrico Redaelli
Part Three: Thinking, Estrangement, Ideologies
7. What Does It Mean to Think? Antonio Gramsci and Gilles Deleuze
Richard A. Lee Jr .
8. Herbert Marcuse in Italy
Michael E. Gardiner
9. Engaging Contemporary Ideology with Mario Perniola, Slavoj Žižek, and Robert Pfaller
Erik M. Vogt
Part Four: Community, Apocalypse, the Political
10. Between the Inoperative and the Coming Community: Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben on the Task of Ontology
María del Rosario Acosta López
11. Who Can Hold the Apocalypse? Massimo Cacciari, Carl Schmitt, and the Katechon
Pietro Pirani
12. Movements or Events? Antonio Negri versus Alain Badiou on Politics
Christian Lotz
Part Five: Voices of Difference
13. A Critique of the Forms of Political Action: Carla Lonzi and G. W. F. Hegel
Maria Luisa Boccia
14. C’è Altro: Luisa Muraro on the Symbolic of Sexual Difference along and beyond Luce Irigaray
Elvira Roncalli
15. Adriana Cavarero and Hannah Arendt: Singular Voices and Horrifying Narratives
Peg Birmingham
Part Six: Topology, New Realism, Biopolitics
16. Topology at Play: Vincenzo Vitiello and the Word of Philosophy
Giulio Goria
17. On the Question of the Face of Reality: Addressing the “Myths” of the New Realism and Postmodernity
Rita Šerpytytė
18. Deconstruction or Biopolitics
Roberto Esposito
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Over many months, in various places of the world and in different ways, numerous individuals have given us great motivation, encouragement, and support, which have helped lead to the publication of this volume. Partners, children, other family members, friends, colleagues, students, and occasional interlocutors have gifted us many times with the generosity of an inspirational word, a kind gesture, a joyful smile, a reassuring comment, or even a critical but insightful remark. There are too many of these individuals for us to list all their names here, but we trust that they know who they are. And they should also know that our indebtedness to them is great and our gratitude is sincere and deep.
We are especially thankful to Andrew Kenyon, James Peltz, Michael Rinella, and the staff at SUNY Press, not only for their editorial competence, good-humored attitude, and enthusiastic backing of this volume but also for their constant support of the SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy in which this book appears.
We wish to thank the anonymous reviewers who took the time to read the initial version of the manuscript thoroughly and carefully and who offered important insights to help us make the volume a better work.
We wish to thank Karen Lawson and the Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020 for kind permission to use the image by Leonardo da Vinci, “A Sprig of Blackberries,” on the front cover of the volume.
And last but not least, we extend our sincerest and deepest appreciation and thanks to the contributors to this volume for their prompt responsiveness, ongoing collaboration, and unending patience. Without them and their thinking, there would be no volume, the intersections of various aspects of Italian and continental philosophy would be less practiced, and the borders of thought would remain less open.
Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno
Open Borders
Introduction
Silvia Benso and Antonio Calcagno
Roberto Esposito opens his work Living Thought: The Origins and Actuality of Italian Thought by noting that there has been a great resurgence of interest in Italian philosophy. As he remarks,
After a long period of retreat (or at least of stalling), the times appear to be favorable again for Italian philosophy. The signs heralding this shift, in a way that suggests something more than mere coincidence, are many. I am not just referring to the international success of certain living authors, among the most translated and discussed writers in the world, from the United States to Latin America and Japan to Australia, leading to a resurgence of interest in Europe as well. There have been other cases of this sort in the past, but they have involved individuals instead of a horizon: a group that in spite of its diversity of issues and intentions somehow remains recognizable by its common tone. This is precisely what has been taking shape in recent years, however, with an intensity that recalls the still recent landing of “French theory” on the coasts and campuses of North America. 1
Esposito pointedly draws a connection between Italian thought and its many interlocutors in North and South America, Asia, and Europe. As Remo Bodei remarks, the forte of Italian philosophy in the world today is that it “responds to a widespread need for concreteness and reality ( realtà ) after the finicky inquiries of the analytic philosophers and the (apparent) conceptual acrobatics of French Theory,” which has dominated continental philosophy in the last decades. 2 A peculiarity of Italian philosophy, according to Bodei, is that its interlocutors have never been a specialized audience (scholars, clerics, university students), but rather have been a wider public ultimately made of the majority of the human beings, the “non-philosophers,” as Benedetto Croce used to call them. Hence, the questions that Italian philosophy addresses are largely themes of broad concern to human beings in general, whose characteristics are those of being “not only rational animals but also desiring and projecting animals, whose thoughts, actions, and expectations escape predetermined argumentative rules or rigorously defined methods.” 3
Mindful of the dialectical, dialogical nature of Italian philosophy as Bodei presents it—a dialectics that emerges from the discrepancy between thought and lived life—the present volume explores one important strand of the ongoing dialogue to which Esposito alludes, namely, the provocative, if not sometimes troubling, relationship between Italian philosophy and continental European thought. This relationship has existed ever since the beginning of what was not yet entirely identifiable either as Italian or as continental thinking. The aims of this collection, which explicitly addresses a relationship that is constitutive of Italian thought broadly understood, are threefold. First, we wish to show the intimate relationship between contemporary Italian philosophy and continental thinking, not only in terms of its more recent framework, as articulated by Esposito, but from late modernity to the present. We do this to highlight the depth and expanse of the dialogue that is taking place. Second, we focus on the philosophical fruits of this encounter of minds. Questions about the nature and scope of politics, life, being, women, literature, sociality, power, aesthetics, hermeneutics, and technology are taken up to expose new or underinvestigated aspects, which are both meaningful for and relevant to our rapidly changing world. Finally, we see the dialogue as a means for bringing to the fore figures of Italian thought who, though well known in the Italian an