Italian Theory and New Political Extremisms

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-04005-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galindo Hervás, Alfonso

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Italian Theory in the Face of New Political Extremisms 1. Extremism and Populism. A Non-Hegemonic Intersection: The Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador Analyzed Through the Gramscian Concept of "Hegemony" 2. Apocalypse Now? The Fight Against Climate Change and its Paradoxes 3. Nostalgia and Hermeneutics: On the Reactionary Gaze 4. Technocracy, Post-humanism and Capital: Accelerationist Extremism 5. Extremism as a Symptom: For an Alternative to Therapeutic Neoliberalism from Italian Theory 6. Spectres of Totality and Paradigms of Evil in Simona Forti 7. Can Contemporary Political Extremism be Thought Alla Maniera Di Pasolini, en Poète and Gramsciana? 8. "Slave Use" in the Context of the Colombian War: Btween Left-Wing Extremism and Right-Wing Extremism 9. The Extreme Paradox of Liberalism: Bonapartism and the Return of the State in Domenico Losurdo 10. Extremism and Memory. An Analysis From Roberto Esposito 11. The Uprooted Tree. Notes on Political Metaphorology 12. Anthropological Anarchism. Notes on David Graeber

Über Autor(innen)

Alfonso Galindo Hervás is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Murcia, Spain. His research and publications focus on the fields of contemporary political philosophy and the history of political concepts. He has paid special attention to Italian political thought, the liberal tradition and some of the main phenomena of current politics, such as populism.