The Symbolic Order of the Mother
(January 2018)
Luisa Muraro - Author Francesca Novello - Translator Timothy S. Murphy - Edited and with an introduction by Alison Stone - Foreword by
Argues that affirming the irreducible differences between men and women can lead to more transformative politics than the struggle for abstract equality between the sexes.
In The Symbolic Order of the Mother Luisa Muraro identifies the bond between mother and child as ontologically fundamental to the development of culture and politics, and therefore as key to achieving truly emancipatory political change. Both corporea...(Read More)
Flower of the Desert
(November 2015)
Giacomo Leopardi's Poetic Ontology Antonio Negri - Author Timothy S. Murphy - Translator
A profound meditation on Leopardi’s art and thought as well as a reframing and reassertion of Negri’s own philosophical and political project of liberation.
Antonio Negri, one of Italy’s most influential and controversial contemporary philosophers, offers in this book a radical new interpretation of the nineteenth-century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. For Negri, Leopardi is not the bitter, ide...(Read More)
