Bloomsbury Italian Philosophy Reader

Michael Lewis Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is author of Heidegger and the Place of Ethics, Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction, Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing, and The Beautiful Animal: Sincerity, Charm, and the Fossilised Dialectic. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Italian Philosophy. David Rose is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

• Introduction, Michael Lewis and David Rose (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)Part I: The Historical Context1. Dante2. Pico della Mirandola3. Niccolò Machiavelli4. Giordano Bruno5. Giambattista Vico6. Benedetto Croce7. Giovanni Gentile8. Antonio Gramsci9. Phenomenology and Marxism in Milan10. Luigi PareysonPart II: Contemporary thinkers11. Giorgio Agamben 12. Massimo Cacciari13. Adriana Cavarero 14. Roberto Esposito 15. Silvia Federici 16. Maurizio Ferraris 17. Simona Forti 18. Maurizio Lazzarato19. Christian Marazzi 20. Luisa Muraro 21. Antonio Negri 22. Massimo Recalcati 23. Emanuele Severino 24. Davide Tarizzo 25. Mario Tronti 26. Gianni Vattimo 27. Paolo Virno TimelineIndex

This welcome volume cohesively brings together some of the major thinkers of the history of Italian philosophy, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to the contemporary period. Readings are introduced by brief informative essays written by specialists that act as useful philosophical mind-maps for readers. The excerpts from primary writings capture central positions and ideas that have come to shape and influence readers and thinkers from around the world. The book helps provide an important survey of the rich and varied schools that have come to form Italian philosophy.