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- Title: Foucault Docet (Report)
- Author : Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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In spite of appearances, Antonio Negri's obscure pamphlet 'The Italian Difference' does not really lend itself to a polemical discussion. It must be taken for what it is, a coup de theatre dictated--as the author himself confesses--by a rather ingenuous moment of hubris. At the end of the day, it is a sparata, as we say in Italian. Such a blast would intend to strike at the entirety of Italian contemporary thought (and with particular violence against so-called 'weak thought') in its capacity as a philosophy of the master; at the same time, it positively exempts from this treatment three names--the old Gramsci, and the new Mario Tronti, the workerist, and Luisa Muraro, the feminist--in their capacity as, it would seem, philosophies that creatively resists the master by means of difference. Everything else is a desert. If there are no doubts about Gramsci, the two other names are--even for an Italian--quite unexpected. I wonder what those concerned by this bizarre ordering think about it (and then I ask myself: What status does he who arranges them arrogate to himself? Is he like the fourth man officiating at a football match?). Mario Tronti stood aside many years ago, avoiding the public scene; Luisa Muraro, whom I know very well, is on the contrary very present on the feminine front. She appears on television and even in glossy magazines without fear of becoming what Negri would call a 'game show hostess'. Along with these choices, we could produce many others, just as arbitrary and personal: this reminds me of the habit, quite in vogue in Italy, whereby everybody imagines himself to be the coach of the national football team and dictates his own line-up. So, I'll drop it.