Alberto Toscano

How do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and political crises, the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand. How should we name, map and respond to this state of affairs? Late Fascism turns to theories of fascism produced in the past century, testing their capacity to illuminate our moment and challenging many of the commonplaces that debate on this extremely charged term devolves into. It can be tempting for any contemporary assessment of fascism to reach for historical analogy. Fascism is defined by returns and repetitions, but it is not best approached in terms of steps and checklists dictated by a selective reading of Italian Fascism or National Socialism. Rather than treating fascism as an unrepeatable phenomenon or identifying it with a settled configuration of European parties, regimes, and ideologies, Toscano approaches fascism as a problem and a process, one that is intimately linked to capitalism's demands for domination. Drawing especially on Black radical and anti-colonial theories of racial fascism, Late Fascism makes clear the limits of identifying fascism simply with the political violence of bygone European regimes. Developing anti-fascist theory is a vital and urgent task. From the "Great Replacement" to campaigns against critical race theory and "gender ideology", today's global far-right is launching lethal panics about the threats to traditional political, sexual and racial regimes. Late Fascism allows us to rediscover some truly inspiring anti-fascist thinkers, rooted in their turn in largely anonymous collective practices of worldmaking against domination, traditions of the oppressed that remain a resource for those set on dismantling the hierarchies and segregations that the partisans of Order and Tradition seek to revive and reimpose.

Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

Late Fascism

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Brenna Bhandar

Essays Towards Liberation

Abolition Geography

Jeff Kinkle

Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question offered by artists, film-makers, writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on the crises of representation that have accompanied the enduring crisis of capitalism, foregrounding the production of new visions and artefacts that wrestle with the vastness, invisibility and complexity of the abstractions that rule our lives.

Cartographies of the Absolute

Alain Badiou

This volume presents a new proposal for the link between philosophy and art. Badiou identifies and rejects the three schemes of didacticism, romanticism, and classicism that he sees as having governed traditional "aesthetics," and seeks a fourth mode of accounting for the educative value of works of art.

Handbook of Inaesthetics

on the uses of an idea

Fanaticism

Chronique amoureuse des français

The rich archive of twentieth-century debates on fascism can steer a path through an increasingly authoritarian present. Developing anti-fascist theory is an urgent and vital task. From the 'Great Replacement' to campaigns against critical race theory and 'gender ideology', today's global far right is launching lethal panics about the threats to traditional political, sexual and racial hierarchies. Drawing especially on Black radical and anti-colonial theories of fascism, Toscano makes clear the limits of associating fascism primarily with the kind of political violence experienced by past European regimes. Rather than looking for analogies from history, we should see fascism as a mutable process, one anchored in racial and colonial capitalism, which both predates and survives its crystallization in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. It is a threat that continues to evolve in the present day.

Sara R. Farris

Beverley Skeggs

The SAGE Handbook of Marxism will provide an in-depth cartography of - and original contribution to - contemporary Marxist theory and research, showcasing the vitality and range of today's Marxisms.

The SAGE Handbook of Marxism

Ricardo Espinoza

Jorge Eduardo Fernández

El presente libro reúne, por primera vez, a grandes filósofos de diferentes latitudes anglosajones, latinoamericanos y europeos para hacer una lectura actual sobre Hegel. La obra se ha estructurado en cuatro partes. En la primera, con los aportes de Robert Pippin, Catherine Malabou y Slavoj Žižek, se muestra el complejo tema histórico del Idealismo; en la segunda, a través de los textos de Frank Ruda, Edgardo Albizu, Miguel Giusti, Juan Ormeño y Birgit Sandkaulen, se reflexiona sobre el necesario asunto filosófico pero también político del sistema y del sujeto, conceptos pilares de la filosofía hegeliana; en la tercera parte, de la mano de Terry Pinkard, Alberto Damiani, Ricardo Espinoza, Jorge Eduardo Fernández, Klaus Vieweg y Gustavo Leyva, se aborda el totalmente pertinente asunto político y ético del reconocimiento, libertad y revolución; y en la cuarta y última parte, con los aportes de Félix Duque, Vincenzo Vitiello, Massimo Cacciari, Jose Maria Ripalda Crespo y Alberto Toscano, se reflexiona sobre cómo se dialoga con Hegel hoy desde otras miradas para resolver los problemas. En esta obra, Hegel se transforma en el marco conceptual que nos permite entender, pensar y criticar lo que hoy se nos muestra como contradictorio en los distintos niveles de la realidad y de la actualidad social e intelectual: la verdad, la historia, la sociedad, entre otros. Asimismo, la singularidad de las distintas y potentes voces reunidas aquí en pos de Hegel abre la filosofía a múltiples lectores de distintas disciplinas y saberes que busquen en nuestro presente las claves que nos permitan ver cómo podemos construir un mundo más justo para todos.

Una filosofía para los tiempos del Otro

Hegel hoy

A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations It is commonplace to hear fanaticism described as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs, an assertion that helps to demonize convictions outside political orthodoxy. Alberto Toscano’s compelling and erudite counter-history explodes this accepted convention by exploring the critical role fanaticism played in the formation of modern politics and the liberal state. Showing how fanaticism results from a failure to formulate an adequate emancipatory politics, this illuminating history sheds new light on an idea that continues to dominate debates about faith and secularism. This expanded edition includes new material that revisits the idea of fanaticism as it operates at the limits of the liberal political imaginary, highlighting its relation to fraternal violence, political purity and the refusal of compromise, as well as its centrality to times of social crisis and international conflict.

On the Uses of an Idea

Svenja Bromberg

The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Marxism both within and without the academy. Marxian frameworks, concepts and categories continue to be narratively relevant to the features and events of contemporary capitalism. Most crucially, an attention to shifting cultural conditions has lead contemporary researchers to re-confront some classical and essential Marxist concepts, as well as elaborating new critical frameworks for the analysis of capitalism today. The SAGE Handbook of Marxism showcases this cutting-edge of today’s Marxism. It advances the debate with essays that rigorously map and renew the concepts that have provided the groundwork and main currents for Marxist theory, and showcases interventions that set the agenda for Marxist research in the 21st century. A rigorous and challenging collection of scholarship, this book contains a stunning range of contributions from contemporary academics, writers and theorists from around the world and across disciplines, invaluable to scholars and graduate students alike. Part 1: Reworking the critique of political economy Part 2: Forms of domination, subjects of struggle Part 3: Political perspectives Part 4: Philosophical dimensions Part 5: Land and existence Part 6: Domains Part 7: Inquiries and debates

Italy, 1943. Although allied with Hitler, there were those who refused to accept the fascist policies of racial discrimination and deportation. Among them was Gino Bartali. A champion cyclist, he won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and the Tour de France twice. But these weren’t his only achievements. Deeply religious, Bartali never spoke about what he did during those dark years, when he agreed to work with the Resistance and pass messages from one end of the country to the other. Despite the dangers, Bartali used his training as a pretext to criss-cross Italy, hiding documents in the handlebars and saddle of his bicycle, all the while hoping that each time he was searched they wouldn't think to disassemble his machine. As a result of his bravery, 800 Jews — including numerous children — were saved from deportation. He died in Florence in 2000 and was recognized as one of the 'Righteous Among the Nations' in 2013. In this book, Alberto Toscano shares the incredible story of this great sportsman and recalls the dramatic moments in Italy and Europe in the twentieth century.

The Incredible Life of Gino Bartali

A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis

A genealogy of fanaticism--unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations It is commonplace to hear fanaticism described as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs, an assertion that helps to demonize convictions outside political orthodoxy. Alberto Toscano's compelling and erudite counter-history explodes this accepted convention by exploring the critical role fanaticism played in the formation of modern politics and the liberal state. Showing how fanaticism results from a failure to formulate an adequate emancipatory politics, this illuminating history sheds new light on an idea that continues to dominate debates about faith and secularism. This expanded edition includes new material that revisits the idea of fanaticism as it operates at the limits of the liberal political imaginary, highlighting its relation to fraternal violence, political purity and the refusal of compromise, as well as its centrality to times of social crisis and international conflict.

This handbook advances the debate with essays that rigorously map and renew the concepts that have provided the groundwork and main currents for Marxist theory, and showcases interventions that set the agenda for Marxist research in the 21st century.

Lorenzo Chiesa

This volume brings together essays by different generations of Italian thinkers which address, whether in affirmative, problematizing or genealogical registers, the entanglement of philosophical speculation and political proposition within recent Italian thought. Nihilism and biopolitics, two concepts that have played a very prominent role in theoretical discussions in Italy, serve as the thematic foci around which the collection orbits, as it seeks to define the historical and geographical particularity of these notions as well their continuing impact on an international debate. The volume also covers the debate around OCyweak thoughtOCO (pensiero debole), the feminist thinking of sexual difference, the re-emergence of political anthropology and the question of communism. The contributors provide contrasting narratives of the development of post-war Italian thought and trace paths out of the theoretical and political impasses of the presentOCoagainst what Negri, in the text from which the volume takes its name, calls OCythe Italian desertOCO."

Between Nihilism and Biopolitics

The Italian Difference

Dalle scienze alla politica, dalla commedia alla pittura, dalla musica al cinema, dall’architettura alla moda e allo sport: tanti sono gli italiani che hanno contribuito a fare grande la Francia. Da Leonardo da Vinci a Pierre Cardin, da Caterina de’ Medici a Émile Zola fino a Yves Montand... Questo libro non raccoglie biografie, ma traccia un itinerario attraverso le eredità che questi due Paesi, l’Italia e la Francia, condividono. Il risultato è il racconto di una storia veramente europea: a suon di aneddoti e avvenimenti storici, Alberto Toscano illustra secoli di scambi culturali. Un libro suggestivo, dalla scrittura lieve e raffinata, estremamente attuale. La storia ci insegna, infatti, che malgrado le difficoltà, l’arte, la cultura e la bellezza sono frutto di emigrazioni, integrazione e conoscenza: Gli italiani che hanno fatto la Francia vuole essere un tassello nel grande mosaico di una memoria da ritrovare e (finalmente) da valorizzare.

Alberto Toscano

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