Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author and editor of several books, including Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers, also published by SUNY Press. Elvira Roncalli is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Carroll College.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Contemporary Italian Women Thinkers: Attending to Thinking, Extending the ArtSilvia Benso and Elvira RoncalliPart I: Women, Mothers, Bodies 1. The Inner PassageLuisa Muraro2. Who Is a Mother?Maria Luisa Boccia3. Aporias of the Maternal in the Women's MovementLea MelandriPart II: Subjectivity, Power, and the Political 4. Toward an Ethos of Freedom: Notes on Subjectivity and PowerSimona Forti5. Biopolitics and Economy: Between Self-Government Practices and New Forms of ControlLaura Bazzicalupo6. Immunitary PoliticsCaterina RestaPart III: Responsibility, Emotions, Time 7. Responsibility as Being Here in Our Own TimeLaura Boella8. Emotional Subjects: For the Care of the FutureElena PulciniPart IV: Everyday Life, Action, Transcendence 9. Everyday Life: For a Vision without TranscendencesEnrica Lisciani-Petrini10. The Symbol in ActionMaria Cristina BartolomeiCoda 11. Mimetic Inclinations: A Dialogue with Adriana CavareroAdriana Cavarero and Nidesh LawtooContributorsIndex

Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author and editor of several books, including Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers, also published by SUNY Press. Elvira Roncalli is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Carroll College.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Contemporary Italian Women Thinkers: Attending to Thinking, Extending the ArtSilvia Benso and Elvira RoncalliPart I: Women, Mothers, Bodies 1. The Inner PassageLuisa Muraro2. Who Is a Mother?Maria Luisa Boccia3. Aporias of the Maternal in the Women's MovementLea MelandriPart II: Subjectivity, Power, and the Political 4. Toward an Ethos of Freedom: Notes on Subjectivity and PowerSimona Forti5. Biopolitics and Economy: Between Self-Government Practices and New Forms of ControlLaura Bazzicalupo6. Immunitary PoliticsCaterina RestaPart III: Responsibility, Emotions, Time 7. Responsibility as Being Here in Our Own TimeLaura Boella8. Emotional Subjects: For the Care of the FutureElena PulciniPart IV: Everyday Life, Action, Transcendence 9. Everyday Life: For a Vision without TranscendencesEnrica Lisciani-Petrini10. The Symbol in ActionMaria Cristina BartolomeiCoda 11. Mimetic Inclinations: A Dialogue with Adriana CavareroAdriana Cavarero and Nidesh LawtooContributorsIndex

Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author and editor of several books, including Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers, also published by SUNY Press. Elvira Roncalli is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Carroll College.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Contemporary Italian Women Thinkers: Attending to Thinking, Extending the ArtSilvia Benso and Elvira RoncalliPart I: Women, Mothers, Bodies 1. The Inner PassageLuisa Muraro2. Who Is a Mother?Maria Luisa Boccia3. Aporias of the Maternal in the Women's MovementLea MelandriPart II: Subjectivity, Power, and the Political 4. Toward an Ethos of Freedom: Notes on Subjectivity and PowerSimona Forti5. Biopolitics and Economy: Between Self-Government Practices and New Forms of ControlLaura Bazzicalupo6. Immunitary PoliticsCaterina RestaPart III: Responsibility, Emotions, Time 7. Responsibility as Being Here in Our Own TimeLaura Boella8. Emotional Subjects: For the Care of the FutureElena PulciniPart IV: Everyday Life, Action, Transcendence 9. Everyday Life: For a Vision without TranscendencesEnrica Lisciani-Petrini10. The Symbol in ActionMaria Cristina BartolomeiCoda 11. Mimetic Inclinations: A Dialogue with Adriana CavareroAdriana Cavarero and Nidesh LawtooContributorsIndex