Chapter 1 Introduction: The Italian Animal—A Heterodox Tradition

Chapter 2 Animality and Immanence in Italian Thought

Chapter 3 Aldo Capitini, Animal Ethics, and Nonviolence: The Expanding Circle

Chapter 4 What Is Italian Antispeciesism? An Overview of Recent Tendencies in Animal Advocacy

Chapter 5 Beyond Human and Animal: Giorgio Agamben and Life as Potential

Chapter 6 Deconstructing the Dispositif of the Person: Animality and the Politics of Life in the Philosophy of Roberto Esposito

Chapter 7 Animality Between Italian Theory and Posthumanism

Chapter 8 For the Critique of Political Anthropocentrism: Italian Marxism and the Animal Question

Chapter 9 Experiencing Oneself in One’s Constitutive Relation: Unfolding Italian Sexual Difference

Chapter 10 Paolo De Benedetti: For an Animal Theology

Chapter 11 “ Il faut bien tuer ,” or the Calculation of the Abattoir

Chapter 12 Philosophical Ethology and Animal Subjectivity

Chapter 13 From Renaissance Ferinity to the Biopolitics of the Animal-Man: Animality as Political Battlefield in the Anthropocene

Chapter 14 The Animal Is Present: Non-human Animal Bodies in Recent Italian Art