Edited Books
NIETZSCHES NATUREN
De Gruyter, 2024
Is Nietzsche’s thinking still relevant to the current global challenges surrounding the concept of nature? The authors of this volume show that his writings can be made productive in discussions about ecological movements, and the cultural and aesthetic roles of flora and fauna; as an anticipation of "naturecultures"; and in order to critique scientific practices and to take different perspectives on the natures of individual personalities.
Contributors include Vanessa Lemm, Antonia Ulrich, Gary Shapiro, Johann Szews, Laura Langone, Zanan Akin, Christian J. Emden, Carlotta Santini, Marcus Döller, Beatrix Himmelmann, Max van der Heijden, Markus Wild, Edgar Landgraf, Aurélien Fossey, Márcio Benchimol Barros.
THE VIRAL POLITICS OF COVID 19
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
This book critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, economic, and political levels. The biolegal dimensions of our evolving understanding of “home” are analysed as the common thread linking the problem of zoonotic diseases and planetary health with that of geopolitics, biosecurity, bioeconomics and biophilosophies of the plant-animal-human interface. In doing so, the contributions collectively highlight the complexities, challenges, and opportunities for humanity, opening new perspectives on how to inhabit our shared planet. This volume will broadly appeal to scholars and students in anthropology, cultural and media studies, history, philosophy, political science and public health, sociology and science and technology studies.
Contributors include Mark Andrejevic and Zala Volcic (Melbourne), Yasmeen Arif (Delhi), Azita Chellappoo (London), Susan Craddock (Minneapolis), Lyle Fearnley (Singapore), Gay Hawkins (Sydney), Frédéric Keck (Paris), Eben Kirksey (Oxford), Martijn Konings (Sydney), Frederico Luisetti (St. Gallen), Maurizio Meloni (Melbourne), Vanessa Lemm (Melbourne), Stephen Muecke (Adelaide), Abigail Nieves Delgado (Utrecht), Miguel Vatter (Melbourne).
Reviews and endorsements
Reviewed in Theory and Event 26, 2023: 630-635.
NIETZSCHE AND THE BECOMING OF LIFE
Fordham University Press, 2015
Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life’s becoming on Earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche.
In an age in which the biological sciences claim to have unlocked the deepest secrets and codes of life, the essays in this volume propose a more skeptical view. Life is both what is closest and what is furthest from us, because life experiments through us as much as we experiment with it, because life keeps our thinking and our habits always moving, in a state of recurring nomadism. Nietzsche’s philosophy is perhaps the clearest expression of the antinomy contained in the idea of “studying” life and in the Socratic ideal of an “examined” life and remains a deep source of wisdom about living.
Reviews and endorsements
“This exciting collection of essays challenges existing interpretations of several key moments of Nietzsche’s philosophy, especially his understanding of biological life and what it means for human beings to affirm life. Individual chapters, including some by leading Nietzsche scholars, retrace some of the contexts and consequences of his tragic, scientific, psychological and philosophical concepts of life. They cast new light on successive phases of his thought and on his relationships to thinkers such as Darwin, Emerson, Empedocles and Hegel. This immensely rich book should be read by everyone interested in contemporary Nietzsche scholarship!”
- Paul Patton, Scientia Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Australia
Reviewed in Estudios de Nietzsche.
NIETZSCHE Y EL DEVENIR DE LA VIDA
Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2014
Nietzsche entiende que el mundo se despliega como voluntad de poder. Si queremos comprender adecuadamente esta perspectiva cosmológica, debemos partir atribuyendo actividad inmanente no solo a los organismos, sino, también, a los seres llamados “inorgánicos”. Contando con ello, en este artículo examinamos, de modo “ascendente”, los rasgos del devenir vital en ambos estratos, es decir, desde los minerales con sus atracciones y repulsiones hasta llegar al mismo hombre y sus operaciones conscientes. Todos los problemas implicados en esta perspectiva monista son abordados desde argumentaciones que tienen como referente las lecturas de Nietzsche. Strauss, Dubois Reymond, Herzen, Spencer, Lange, Delfœuf, vienen a ser algunas de las fuentes citadas que permiten que este escrito pueda dar cuenta de cómo Nietzsche hace que la vida impere, más allá del ser, como el fenómeno primordial en todos los órdenes.
Reviews
Reviewed in Estudios de Nietzsche 16, 2016: 240-243.
THE GOVERNMENT OF LIFE
Fordham University Press, 2014
Foucault's late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power. In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary group of Foucault scholars examines his ideas of biopower and biopolitics and their relation to his project of a history of governmentality and to a theory of the subject found in his last courses at the College de France.
Many of the chapters engage critically with the Italian theoretical reception of Foucault. At the same time, the originality of this collection consists in the variety of perspectives and traditions of reception brought to bear upon the problematic connections between biopolitics and governmentality established by Foucault's last works.
Reviews
Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews and Contemporary Political Theory.
HEGEL, PENSADOR DE LA ACTUALIDAD
Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010
The essays that make up this volume explore the validity of Hegel's thought and are representative of the most current research on German idealism.
Authors include Renato Cristi, Fred Dallmayr, Jorge Dotti, Michael Quante, Ludwig Siep, Carolina Bruno, Robert Pippin, Robert Bernasconi, Angelica Nuzzo, Kristina Engelhard, Carla Cordua, Rolf-Peter Horstmann and others.
Reviews
Reviewed in Alpha, Methodus, Revista de Filosofía, Revista: Signos Filosóficos, Hegel Bulletin.
MICHEL FOUCAULT: NEOLIBERALISMO Y BIOPOLÍTICA
Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010
Michel Foucault, one of the fundamental representatives of contemporary French thought, developed an accumulation of deep reflections on power in today's society and its direct impact on the lives of individuals. This book, consisting of essays by specialists of various nationalities, takes up, reviews and rearticulates Foucault's revolutionary propositions.
Reviews
Reviewed in Tabula Rasa, Alpha, Paralaje, Alcances. Revista de Filosofía Contemporánea.