Convention and Materialism: Uniqueness without Aura (Insubordinations: Italian Radical Thought)
Color: Teal/Turquoise green
Categories: Books, Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government



Dimensions: 5.56 x 0.93 x 8.31 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 026204580X
Publisher: The MIT Press
Print length: 272 pages
Publication date: August 3, 2021
ISBN-13: 978-0262045803
Part of series: Insubordinations: Italian Radical Thought
subtitle: Hardcover – August 3, 2021
author: Visit Amazon's Paolo Virno Page search results Paolo Virno Lorenzo Chiesa Giorgio Agamben
review: Editorial Reviews Review “Paolo Virno is unquestionably one of the most consistently innovative, radical, and insightful thinkers working in Italy today. This deft translation of his first book demonstrates that Virno is a philosopher capable of that rarest of feats—combining an innovative and iconoclastic engagement with the classical questions of philosophy (from truth to happiness, materialism to human nature) with a profoundly transformative political perspective. At the heart of the book is a root-and-branch reconsideration of materialist ethics, forged against the backdrop of the epochal transformations that accompanied the counterrevolution of the 1980s and whose effects are still with us.” — Alberto Toscano, Reader in Critical Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Visiting Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University About the Author Paolo Virno is an Italian philosopher, semiologist, and activist. A prominent figure among the Italian workerist thinkers, he teaches at the University of Rome and is the author of A Grammar of the Multitude and Multitude between Innovation and Negation , both published in English by Semiotext(e).