Philosophy of Means

Elettra Stimilli (Author) Elettra Stimilli is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome. She is the author of five books in Italian, two of which have been translated into English as Debt and Guilt (2018) and The Debt of the Living: Ascesis and Capitalism (2017).Timothy C. Campbell (Introducer) Timothy C. Campbell is Professor of Italian at Cornell University. His most recent book is The Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life (2017).Clara Pope (Translator) Clara Pope is a translator and editor based in Bologna. She is the translator of Gigi Roggero’s Italian Operaismo: Genealogy, History, Method (2023).

• A Militancy of Means: Stimilli’s Corporeal Politics, by Timothy C. Campbell viiPreface to the English-Language Edition xxiIntroduction 1Prelude: Embarrassing Tools 7Part 1 – The Reason of Means1 Critique of Instrumental Reason 132 Meaning in Relation to Ends and Purposes 233 Conformity to Purpose or Value 274 Orientation Toward an End 325 Hierarchies of Action and the Exclusion of Bodies 426 Sensible Life and Imagination as Means 527 The Final End or the Dominance of the White Man 668 Bodies: Toward a Critique of Teleology 769 Teleology Without a Final End 85Interlude: Another Genre of Resistance 97Part 2 – Bodies Rising1 The Monopoly on Violence and the Means of Production 1032 Machines and Bodies 1143 Machinations and Utopias 1204 Mutant Bodies 1295 Anthropo-scenarios 1356 Means of Reproduction 1417 Unexpected Means for Care Work 1508 Philosophy and Care 1599 Science of Means: The Spontaneous Market Order 17110 Bodies and Social Reproduction 177Epilogue: No More Pots and Pans 189Works Cited 193

"Stimilli’s book establishes means as the conceptual point of departure for new forms of resistance to the current regime of neoliberalism. Stimilli’s philosophical and feminist investigations are daring in perspective and outstanding in erudition and insight." - Alessia Ricciardi, Northwestern University