Alberto Toscano: 4 books
Fanaticism
On the Uses of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations
It is commonplace to hear fanaticism described as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs, an assertion that helps to demonize convictions outside...
Badiou and Hegel
Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity offers critical appraisals of two of the dominant figures of the Continental tradition of philosophy, Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel. Jim Vernon and Antonio Calcagno bring together established and emerging authors in Continental philosophy to discuss...
by Alberto Toscano, Jeff Kinkle
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question offered by artists, film-makers, writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on the crises of representation that have accompanied the enduring crisis of capitalism, foregrounding the production...
Sociologia n. 1/2016
Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2017
INDICE Religione e violenza nella società contemporanea FRANCESCA FORTE, DEBORA TONELLI Religione e violenza: la paradossalità di un rapporto ALDO ANDREA CASSI Religione, violenza, diritto. La ‘triade costitutiva’ della ‘guerra giusta’ nell’antropologia giuridica greca e romana arcaica...