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Virno here engages, in an innovative and iconoclastic way, with some classical issues of philosophy involving experience, singularity, and the relation between ethics and language, while also offering a profoundly transformative political perspective that revolves around the Marxian notion of the \"general intellect.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Virno reconsiders Walter Benjamin's idea of a \"loss of the aura\" (brought on, Benjamin argued, by technical reproducibility), and postulates instead the existence of a new experience of uniqueness that, although deprived of every metaphysical aura, resides in the very process of late-capitalist serial reproduction. Writing after the defeat of contemporary leftist revolutionary movements in the West, Virno argues for the possibility of a \"good life\" originating immanently from existential and political crises. Taking speculative detours through the thought of philosophers ranging from Aquinas and Berkeley to Heidegger and Wittgenstein, with a specific focus on Kant and Hegel, Virno shows how a renewed reflection on basic theoretical problems helps us to better grasp what is happening now. This edition features a preface written by Virno in 2011.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49740490572049,"sku":"NGR9780262045803","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/026204580X.jpg?v=1751290718"},{"product_id":"on-freud-book-elvio-fachinelli-9780262047203","title":"On Freud","description":"\u003cb\u003eWritings on Freud by Italy's leading psychoanalyst of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Elvio Fachinelli was one of the most original and controversial Italian psychoanalysts of the twentieth century. He viewed psychoanalytic theory as inextricably linked to the concrete experience of everyday reality and as a crucial compass for understanding the social and political turmoil of his era. This compact volume collects Fachinelli's writing on Freud, offering readers both an accessible and engaging introduction to Freud's thinking and an overview of Fachinelli's own main ideas. Written between 1966 and 1989, these essays serve to introduce readers to some of the most provocative aspects of Fachinelli's critiques of psychoanalysis and society.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn Freud\u003c\/i\u003e includes a long essay on Freud that weaves the theoretical foundations of psychoanalysis together with a surprising number of idiosyncratic observations about Freud the person. In it, Fachinelli offers a series of parallax perspectives- Freud the conquistador, who leads psychoanalysis to the exploration of new fields of knowledge; Freud the archaeologist, who discovers antithetical and incongruous elements in the territory of the unconscious; and Freud the Victorian, whose bourgeois values clashed with the revolutionary character of his discovery. Other essays include an assessment of psychoanalysis as a general social phenomenon that is increasingly showing its historical limits; a discussion of an encounter between Freud and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke; Fachinelli's pointed account of Freud's view of psychoanalysis for \"the poor\"; and an examination of the importance of the element of surprise-for both analyst and analysand-in analysis. Without surprise, Fachinelli writes, psychanalysis is just a \"ministering and administering of knowledge, a repetition of the already known.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This edition includes an authoritative survey of Fachinelli's work and insight into how it continues to be relevant today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743382348049,"sku":"NGR9780262047203","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53251330703633,"sku":"NIN9780262047203","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262047209.jpg?v=1751195390"},{"product_id":"italian-operaismo-book-gigi-roggero-9780262047920","title":"Italian Operaismo","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn accessible, introductory presentation of \u003ci\u003eoperaismo\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the most important revolutionary theories and praxes of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eOperaismo\u003c\/i\u003e is a Machiavellian return to first principles: it is a return to Marx against Marxism, against its tradition of determinism, historicism, and objectivism. 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Gigi Roggero here introduces that broader workerist project, and examines how its various analyses of modern social structures, and the possibility for changing them, related to a potent social movement in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eItalian Operaismo\u003c\/i\u003e provides a clear overview of the central moments in that tendency's development--from the Italian labor movement's crisis of direction in the 1950s, the encounter with the \"new forces\" within the working class at FIAT and elsewhere in the early 1960s, and the political journals \u003ci\u003eQuaderni rossi\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eClasse operaia\u003c\/i\u003e, to the experience of Potere Operaio and other organizations a decade later. 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