Italian Theory and New Political Extremisms
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Italian Theory and New Political Extremisms

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Italian Theory and New Political Extremisms

About this book

So far this century, the most developed democratic societies have witnessed the emergence of various extremist political movements. Some have nationalist connotations, others religious; there are right-wing and left-wing, pacifist and violent, with environmental or social motivations, etc. But they all share reactionary, dogmatic and illiberal traits. Such movements testify to some of the limitations of our societies and the condition of life in them. Therefore, understanding the challenges they pose to our institutions is vital not only to confront them but also to identify their shortcomings and work to improve them.

Using Italian Theory as a conceptual lens, this book provides genealogies of current extremist political movements, their theoretical assumptions and the challenges they imply. Succinct and accessible chapters discuss different manifestations of political extremism: its violence, its relation to populism, its religious dimension, its conception of political action, some of its intellectual influences and its anti-liberal and totalitarian character, to name a few.

Italian Theory and New Political Extremisms is highly relevant to researchers and students interested in learning a series of concepts, categories, metaphors and arguments that are unique and extraordinarily useful for approaching the phenomenon of political extremism in a comprehensive manner.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Italian Theory in the face of new political extremisms
  9. 1 Extremism and populism. A non-hegemonic intersection: the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador analyzed through the Gramscian concept of “Hegemony”
  10. 2 Apocalypse now? The fight against climate change and its paradoxes
  11. 3 Nostalgia and hermeneutics: on the reactionary gaze
  12. 4 Technocracy, post-humanism and capital: accelerationist extremism
  13. 5 Extremism as a symptom: for an alternative to therapeutic neoliberalism from Italian theory
  14. 6 Spectres of totality and paradigms of evil in Simona Forti
  15. 7 Can contemporary political extremism be thought alla maniera di Pasolini, en poète and gramsciana?
  16. 8 “Slave Use” in the context of the Colombian war: between left-wing extremism and right-wing extremism
  17. 9 The extreme paradox of liberalism: bonapartism and the return of the state in Domenico Losurdo
  18. 10 Extremism and memory. An analysis from Roberto Esposito
  19. 11 The uprooted tree. Notes on political metaphorology
  20. 12 Anthropological anarchism. Notes on David Graeber
  21. Index