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1 Introduction -- 1.1 An Animal Suffers for Nothing This Side of Good and Evil -- 1.2 Moderns Knew It: The Radical Challenge of the Suffering Animal -- 1.3 Life Is Weak -- 1.4 The Suffering Animal Faces the Extreme -- 1.5 Biodicies for Free Spirits -- 1.6 Luck of Some, Misfortune of All -- 1.7 Preliminary Notes -- Works Cited -- 2 The Sensitive Cogito: Modern Materialism and Its Legacy -- 2.1 A Shaky Canon -- 2.2 The Animal-Machine, or Rather Descartes' Dangerous Idea -- 2.3 The Rise of the Suffering Animal -- 2.4 The "Innovative Restoration" of the Rational Animal -- Works Cited -- 3 Life Is Overrated: On Darwin's Ultimate Materialism -- 3.1 The Evolution of the Suffering Animal -- 3.2 The Coral of Life and the Chance of Equality -- 3.3 The Revolt of Sentient Beings and the Chance of Civilization -- 3.4 There Is Life, Therefore God Cannot Exist -- 3.5 The Suffering Animal Versus the Powerful Animal -- Works Cited -- 4 Humanity as a Matter of Civilization: The Primo Levi Case -- 4.1 Thinking Dehumanization by Experience -- 4.2 The Inegalitarian God and Meaningless Suffering -- 4.3 The Salvation of Civilization -- 4.4 "We Weren't a Pleasant Sight" -- 4.5 The Salvation of Science -- Works Cited -- 5 The Rise of the Powerful Animal: On Deleuze's Materialism of Power -- 5.1 The Eclipse of the Suffering Animal -- 5.2 Releasing Life: Hume and Bergson -- 5.3 Releasing the Living: Spinoza and Nietzsche -- 5.4 Becoming the Powerful Animal that We Are -- 5.5 The Powerful Animal Reveals Their True Face -- Works Cited -- 6 Conclusion: The Powerful Animal Encounters the Suffering Animal -- Works Cited.

"In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking about when we define a totalitarian political and social situation? When did we start using the word as both adjective and noun? And, what totalitarian ghosts haunt the present? Philosopher Simona Forti seeks to answer these questions by reconstructing not only the genealogy of the concept, but also by clarifying its motives, misunderstandings, and the controversies that have animated its current resurgence. Taking into account political theories and historical discussions, Totalitarianism especially focuses on philosophical reflections, from the question of totalitarian biopolitics to the alleged totalitarian drifts of neoliberalism. The work invites the relentless formulation of a radical question about democratic age: the possibilities it has opened up, the voids it leaves behind, the mechanisms it activates, and the "voluntary servitude" it produces. Forti argues that totalitarianism cannot be considered an external threat to democracy, but rather, one of the possible answers to those questions posed by modernity which democracies have not been able to solve. Her investigation of the uses and abuses of totalitarianism as one of the fundamental categories of 20th and 21st centuries promises to provoke much-needed discussion and debate among those in philosophy, politics, ethics, and beyond"--