Biopolitics and Social Change in Italy [electronic resource] : From Gramsci to Pasolini to Negri /
Righi, A.author.
By placing the social dimension of labour at the base of the discourse of life, this book engages with the work of key intellectual figures and reconstructs a critical genealogy of the notion of biopolitics from the point of view of twentieth and twenty-first century Italy.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the biopolitical and its biopolitics -- Factory councils, Fordism, and Gramsci : a workers' biopolitics and its demise -- The personal is (bio)political! Italian Marxist neo-feminism and its historical trajectory -- Pasolini and the politics of life of neocapitalism -- 1968-1977 : the movement and its biopolitical "lan" -- A biopolitical multitude and its planet : Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno.
By placing the social dimension of labour at the base of the discourse of life, this book engages with the work of key intellectual figures and reconstructs a critical genealogy of the notion of biopolitics from the point of view of twentieth and twenty-first century Italy.
Italy-History.
International relations.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
World politics.
Political sociology.
History of Italy.
International Relations.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.
Political History.
Political Sociology.