Dario Gentili

Crisis dominates the present historical moment. The economy is in crisis, politics in both its past and present forms is in crisis and our own individual lives are in crisis, made vulnerable by the fluctuations of the labour market and by the undoing of social and political ties we inherited from modernity. Yet, traditional views of crises as just temporary...

Dario Gentili analyses the genesis of Italian Thought through the history of the political and theoretical conflicts in Italy from the 1960s to the present, from Gramscianism to operaismo to biopolitics. Covering well-known thinkers such as Agamben, Negri, and Esposito, as well as those less familiar to English-speaking audiences, including Tronti, Cacciari and Marramao, this is an essential book for...