One hundred years after the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini, his oeuvre might best be described as "une pense e", as a meandering thought-provoking thought, to quote Jean-Luc Godard's exceptional comment on Pasolini in Histoire(s) du cine ma. Pasolini scholarship has certainly increased in recent years, but mainly from the perspective of Italian Studies and with a particular focus on his poetry, prose and film. The proposed volume instead highlights the interest of his work for the history of twentieth-century philosophy. It therefore compiles key writings by philosophers who are relatively unknown even within the context of contemporary French and Italian thought. By collecting little known or newly translated essays from these philosophers, the volume aims to foster a contemporary discussion about the (in-)actuality of Pasolini's work.

About the Author
Giovanbattista Tusa is a philosopher and video artist based at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) at the Universidade Nova of Lisbon, Portugal. He is the author, with Alain Badiou, of The End (Polity Press, Cambridge 2019), which has been published in French (Editions Mimesis, 2017) Portuguese (Cultura e Barbarie, Florianopolis 2020), and Spanish (Tinta Limon Ediciones, Buenos Aires 2020). Toni Hildebrandt is Advanced Postdoc in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art History at University of Bern and the Coordinator of the SNSF Sinergia "Mediating the Ecological Imperative" at University of Bern and UNAM Mexico City. He is currently working on his second book (Post-)apocalyptic Imaginations. Representations of Nuclear Catastrophes in Art and Film since 1945.


Book Information
ISBN 9788869773921
Author Giovanbattista Tusa
Format Paperback
Page Count 350
Imprint Mimesis International
Publisher Mimesis International