Biopolitics and social change in Italy: from Gramsci to Pasolini to Negri

Biopolitics and social change in Italy: from Gramsci to Pasolini to Negri

Righi, Andrea

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By placing the social dimension of labour at the base of the discourse of life, this book engages with the work of key intellectual figures and reconstructs a critical genealogy of the notion of biopolitics from the point of view of twentieth and twenty-first century Italy. ANDREA RIGHI Assistant Professor of Italian and Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. INDICE: Introduction: The Biopolitical and Its Biopolitics - Factory Councils, Fordism, and Gramsci: a Workers' Biopolitics and Its Demise - The Personal is (Bio)Political! Italian Marxist Neo-feminism and its Historical Trajectory - Pasolini and the Politics of Life of Neocapitalism - 1968-1977: the Movement and its Biopolitical Élan - A Biopolitical Multitude and its Planet: Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-11503-3
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 208
  • Fecha Publicación: 06/09/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés