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1. Introduction – The Italian Animal—A Heterodox Tradition -- Part I: Animality in the Italian Tradition -- 2. Animality and Immanence in Italian Thought -- 3. Aldo Capitini, Animal Ethics, and Nonviolence: The Expanding Circle -- 4. What is Italian Antispeciesism? An Overview of Recent Tendencies in Animal Advocacy -- Part II: Animality in Perspective -- 5. Beyond Human and Animal: Giorgio Agamben and Life as Potential -- 6. Deconstructing the Dispositif of the Person: Animality and the Politics of Life in the Philosophy of Roberto Esposito -- 7. Animality Between Italian Theory and Posthumanism -- 8. For the Critique of Political Anthropocentrism: Italian Marxism and the Animal Question -- 9. Experiencing Oneself in One's Constitutive Relation: Unfolding Italian Sexual Difference -- 10. Paolo De Benedetti: For an Animal Theology -- Part III: Fragments of a Contemporary Debate -- 11. "Il faut bien tuer," or the Calculation of the Abattoir -- 12. Philosophical Ethology and Animal Subjectivity -- 13. From Renaissance Ferinity to the Biopolitics of the Animal-Man: Animality as Political Battlefield in the Anthropocene -- 14. The Animal Is Present: Non-Human Animal Bodies in Recent Italian Art -- 15. Animality Now.

Internationally recognised scholars explore central themes and questions in Roberto Esposito's thoughtHelps scholars and readers of Esposito's work to understand the rich background that gives rise to and situates his bio-political worksIncludes an important new essay by Roberto Esposito himself that highlights the object of the his current philosophical focus: the outside of human thoughtProvides a rich critical assessment of Esposito's philosophical corpus, ultimately extending the philosophical debates launched by his workGathers leading international experts including Timothy Campbell, Olga Zorzi Pugliese and Gary Genosko This collection invites readers to reposition Esposito's thought and explore the interdisciplinarity and unique methodology of his whole corpus. It addresses Esposito's long-standing engagement with early modern philosophy, philosophy of biology, biopolitics, and the impolitical and the impersonal, together with his significant dialogues with contemporary philosophers like Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Simone Weil, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot. A new essay by Esposito himself reveals the importance of philosophical sources and ideas that condition his thinking, especially outside and beyond the dominant biopolitical interpretative framework that has come to mark his reception in the English-speaking world