Postmodern impegno
Subtitle: ethics and commitment in contemporary Italian culture
By: Pierpaolo Antonello and Florian Mussgnug (eds).
Contributors: Antonello, Pierpaolo.; Mussgnug, Florian, 1974-
Series: Italian modernities -- v. 4; Italian modernities -- v. 4.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9783034301251
Subjects: Postmodernism -- Italy; Postmodernism; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Italy -- Civilization -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

English and Italian.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Pierpaolo Antonello, Florian Mussgnug; title: Impegno revisited. Intellettuali liquidi o in liquidazione? / Remo Ceserani; title: Has postmodernism ended?: dialectics revisited (Luperini, Belpoliti, Tabucchi) / Monica Jansen; title: Re-thinking impegno (again): reading, ethics and pleasure / Jennifer Burns; title: Theorizing (postmodern) impegno. Pensiero debole, nihilism and ethics, or how strong is weakness? / Giuseppe Stellardi; title: Postmodernismo e pensiero italiano della differenza sessuale: una questione politica / Alessia Ronchetti; title: La trasformazione dell'intimità: Anthony Giddens e il romance dell'impegno / Orsetta Innocenti; title: Lo schermo del corpo: (auto)biografismo e post-democrazia / Attilio Motta; title: Genres of impegno. Postmodernism and the Holocaust in Italy / Robert S.C. Gordon; title: The personal and the political: the cinema of Nanni Moretti / Rosa Barotsi and Pierpaolo Antonello; title: Marco Tullio Giordana, or the persistence of impegno / Alan O'Leary; title: New commitment in Italian 'theatrical story-telling': memory, testimony and the evidential paradigm  / Pierpaolo Antonello; title: La giustizia del dimenticato: sulla linea giudiziaria nella letteratura italiana del Novecento / Sergia Adamo; title: Letteratura gialla e noir degli anni Novanta e impegno / Giuliana Pieri; title: Prima e dopo Gomorra: non-fiction novel e impegno / Raffaello Palumbo Mosca.