{"title":"Dario Gentili","description":"\u003cp\u003eDario Gentili's works explore the intersections of \u003cstrong\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003epolitics\u003c\/strong\u003e, offering sharp analyses of contemporary thought and society. His books engage with themes such as the nature of precariousness and the evolution of Italian intellectual history, inviting readers to reflect on modern challenges through a philosophical lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect rigorous arguments that blend historical context with critical theory, making Gentili's collection essential for those interested in \u003cem\u003epolitical philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e and current affairs. His nuanced approach encourages deeper understanding of the social and political forces shaping our world today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-age-of-precarity-by-dario-gentili-9781788733809","title":"The Age of Precarity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrisis 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 setbacks do not seem to hold any longer; this crisis seems permanent, with no way out and no alternatives on the horizon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReconstructing a political genealogy of the term from the Greek world to today’s neoliberalism, \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Precarity\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that crisis, understood as a “choice” between revolution and conservation, is a peculiarity of the modern era that does not apply to the present day. However, since its origin, the trope of crisis has proven to be one of the most effective instruments of social discipline and administration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe analytical trajectory followed by this book – which spans from Plato to Hayek, from the juridical and medical science of antiquity to the current technocracy, passing through the “weapons of criticism” of Marx and Gramsci – finally identifies, following Benjamin and Foucault, precariousness as the “form of life” that characterises crisis understood as an art of government. But we still need to answer the question: “How can we recreate the possibility of political alternatives?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849987379436,"sku":"9781788733809","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23867133482824.jpg?v=1759072190"},{"product_id":"a-genealogy-of-italian-thought-by-dario-gentili-9781350463578","title":"A Genealogy of Italian Thought","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDario 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCovering 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 anyone seeking to understand the development of critical thought in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Genealogy of Italian Thought\u003c\/em\u003e elucidates the persistence of fundamental concerns that tie together the Italian left’s post-war break with the communist party, the analysis of post-Fordist labour in the 1970s and 1980s, the politics of sexual difference, the postmodernism of ‘weak thought’, up to the current debate on post-Covid-19 biopolitics. Following decade by decade thinkers central to Italian Thought, the book shows how the development of these theoretical strains is deeply intertwined with Italian history. Understanding conflicts, struggles, polemics, and ruptures as the leading motifs of Italian Thought, Gentili demonstrates how philosophical and political reflection born within a branch of heretical Western Marxism (operaismo) would later see its exponents take different paths: some in the recovery of political theology, others in an original approach to biopolitics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe chronological approach will help to orient readers new to recent Italian philosophy and history; at the same time, the book will appeal to advanced readers with a fresh critical perspective on the coherence of Italian Thought. An updated final chapter takes the history up to the present day, following the topics and fault-lines that have emerged since the book’s 2012 publication in Italian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240566993132,"sku":"9781350463578","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350463578-a-genealogy-of-italian-thought-1.jpg?v=1787919729"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/dario-gentili.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}