Biopolitics and Social Change in Italy: From Gramsci to Pasolini to Negri

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Springer, Aug 14, 2011 - History - 198 pages
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.
 

Contents

The Biopolitical and Its Biopolitics
1
A Workers Biopolitics and Its Demise
11
2 The Personal Is BioPolitical Italian Marxist Neofeminism and Its Historical Trajectory
44
3 Pasolini and the Politics of Life of Neocapitalism
73
The Movement and Its Biopolitical Élan
102
Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno
137
Notes
173
Index
196
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ANDREA RIGHI Assistant Professor of Italian and Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.

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