Gathering the contributions of eleven contemporary Italian women thinkers who share a philosophical practice,
Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers embraces a general interrelationality, fluidity, and overlapping of concepts for a border-crossing that affects what it means to be subjects that are embodied and participants in the life of their communities, thereby shaping a sense of belonging. Common threads are revealed through the exploration of radically diverse themes (the body, subjectivity, power, freedom, equality, liberation, the emotions, symbolism and metaphors, maternity, reproduction, responsibility, the political, the economic) and approaches (autobiographical styles, personal narratives, rootedness in the everyday, advancement of relationality, empathic responsibility, passions, and commitment to the flourishing of the polis). In their differences, these previously unpublished essays give the reader a glimpse of the fecund and articulated philosophical work of women in the Italian context—a context which has not been and still is not always benign toward women’s distinctive originality and creativity.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contemporary Italian Women Thinkers: Attending to Thinking, Extending the Art
Silvia Benso and Elvira Roncalli
Part I: Women, Mothers, Bodies
1. The Inner Passage
Luisa Muraro
2. Who Is a Mother?
Maria Luisa Boccia
3. Aporias of the Maternal in the Women’s Movement
Lea Melandri
Part II: Subjectivity, Power, and the Political
4. Toward an Ethos of Freedom: Notes on Subjectivity and Power
Simona Forti
5. Biopolitics and Economy: Between Self-Government Practices and New Forms of Control
Laura Bazzicalupo
6. Immunitary Politics
Caterina Resta
Part III: Responsibility, Emotions, Time
7. Responsibility as Being Here in Our Own Time
Laura Boella
8. Emotional Subjects: For the Care of the Future
Elena Pulcini
Part IV: Everyday Life, Action, Transcendence
9. Everyday Life: For a Vision without Transcendences
Enrica Lisciani-Petrini
10. The Symbol in Action
Maria Cristina Bartolomei
Coda
11. Mimetic Inclinations: A Dialogue with Adriana Cavarero
Adriana Cavarero and Nidesh Lawtoo
Contributors
Index
Sobre o autor
Silvia Benso is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author and editor of several books, including
Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers, also published by SUNY Press.
Elvira Roncalli is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Carroll College.
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