Cimatti and Salzani have put together a rich collection of essays on animal studies that provides an exhaustive overview of how Italian contemporary philosophers are engaging with animal ethics, antispeciesism, posthumanism, ecofeminism, and biopolitics. This edited volume represents an important development in the “animal turn” in the humanities, particularly because it is published in English, allowing for a more efficient dialogue between “Italian theory” and philosophers around the world. This is, in fact, the first collection that will give an international audience access to the rich and varied contribution of Italian contemporary philosophy in the burgeoning field of animal studies. It is also important to point out that all the authors—who are either well-established erudite thinkers or bright and innovative new voices in the panorama of Italian philosophy—effectively engage with recent and prominent scholarship in the fields of animal studies, posthumanism, and biopolitics, such as the work of Zizek, Esposito,...
Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
matteo gilebbi holds a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and is senior lecturer in the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College. He is also the cofounder of the Anthropocene Group and a member of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at Dartmouth. His research focuses on the connections between literature, cinema, and philosophy, using theories from ecocriticism, posthumanism, new materialism, and animal studies. His work has been published in the edited volumes Paolo Sorrentino's Cinema and Television (Intellect, 2021); Towards the River's Mouth by Gianni Celati. A Critical Edition (Lexington Books, 2018); Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities (University of Virginia Press, 2018); The Carol J. Adams Reader: Writings and Conversations 1995-2015 (Bloomsbury, 2016); and Animals and the Posthuman in Italian Literature and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He recently translated two books of poetry by Ivano Ferrari, published in the single volume Slaughterhouse (Legas, 2019). Email: matteo.gilebbi@dartmouth.edu
Matteo Gilebbi; Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy. Journal of Animal Ethics 1 October 2022; 12 (2): 217–219. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/21601267.12.2.18
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