Another Mother

Cesare Casarino is professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis (Minnesota, 2002), coauthor of In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics (Minnesota, 2008), and coeditor of Marxism beyond Marxism. Andrea Righi is assistant professor of Italian at Miami University. He is author of Biopolitics and Social Change in Italy: From Gramsci to Pasolini to Negri.Mark William Epstein has translated numerous books, including Lars-Henrik Olsen’s Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe and Davide Tarizzo’s Life (Minnesota, 2017).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Another Mother, Another IntroductionCesare Casarino and Andrea RighiPart One: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Politics of Sexual Difference1. The Contact WordIda Dominijanni2. To Knit or to Crochet: A Political-Linguistic Tale on the Enmity between Metaphor and MetonymyLuisa Muraro3. On the Relation between Words and Things as FrequentationLuisa Muraro Part Two: On the Maternal Symbolic and Its Language4. Maternal Language between Limit and Infinite OpeningChiara Zamboni5. Feminism and Psychoanalysis: The Dead Mother ComplexLuisa MuraroPart Three: The Mother and The Negative6. With the Maternal SpiritDiana Sartori7. The Undecidable ImprintIda DominijanniPart Four: Thinking with Diotima8. And Yet She Speaks!: “Italian Feminism” and LanguageAnne Emmanuelle Berger9. Origin and Dismeasure: The Thought of Sexual Difference in Luisa Muraro and Ida Dominijanni, and the Rise of Post-Fordist PsychopathologyAndrea Righi10. Mother Degree Zero; or, of Beginnings: An Afterword on Luisa Muraro’s Feminist Inaptitude for PhilosophyCesare Casarino Index

"To those of us who teach, study, and value activist feminist thought, this collection is a gift. It makes accessible to Anglophone readers Italian feminist philosopher-activists’ radical theorization and practice of sexual difference and establishes that concept not as a relic of the ‘Second Wave’ but as a vital resource for theorizing biopolitics, for fighting violence against ‘the feminine,’ and for envisioning and practicing anti-racist political projects."-Lisa Disch, University of Michigan