Lorenzo Chiesa
Biographic Data
| ID | 976132 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenzo Chiesa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Chiesa |
| SIGNATURE | CHIESA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1810-5735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Kingdom and the Glory
Arguing that Western power is both "government" and "glory," this book reveals the "theological-economic" paradigm at the origin of several of the most important components of modern politics and illuminates the function of consent and the media in today's democracies
The Adventure
The Absence of the Sexual Relationship
Is what psychoanalysis calls the ‘absence of the sexual relationship’ the basic transcendental invariant of the speaking animal? Or should it be understood as a historical product? Also, assuming that language is structurally incomplete, and therefore that Homo sapiens cannot avoid the dialectic of semblance and truth, does this necessarily entail that the absence of meta-language always correspond to the absence of the sexual relationship? In th…
Introduction
Over the last two decades Italian biopolitical theory has ignited a series of fierce debates, in both philosophy and the social sciences. On the one hand, so-called ‘Italian Theory’ remains to date a highly problematic phrase; it is both too general, attempting to coalesce under its label a vast array of positions that remain in the end incompatible, and too specific, given the risk of resurrecting the frankly outdated category of national philos…
Italian Thought Today
Biopolitics in Early Twenty-First-Century Italian Theory
The main aim of this collection of essays is to provide English readers with a critical update on current debates on biopolitics in and around Italian thought. More than a decade after the publicat
The Bio-Theo-Politics of Birth
In this article I aim to show that, in their discussion of the possible biopolitical implications of the notion of birth, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Esposito share a similar vitalist notion of life. Both authors start off from the very same premise: before and outside of any symbolic (political and legal) constraining imposition on life, life is in itself a life as a unity of difference – a place of blind forces or a primordial intensity – t…
The Event of Language as Force of Life
The article offers the authors' insight on the linguistic vitalism of the work of Girgio Agamben. They note that Agamben is considered a vitalist thinker and refines Heideggerian thought to bring out its extreme consequences. They believe that the ontological politicisation of philosophy of Agamben aims to collapse the metaphysical form of law into the undetermined form of life. They add that the positive notion of political agency cannot be deli…
Topology of Fear
Subjectivity and Otherness
The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis of Lacan's work—and the dismissal by "anti-Lacanians" of Lacan as impossibly impenetrable—Subjectivity and Otherness argues for Lacan as a "paradoxically systematic" thinker, and for the necessity of a close analysis of his texts. Lorenzo Chiesa examines, from a philosophical perspective, the evolution …
Subjectivity and Otherness
Agapeand the Anonymous Religion of Atheism
Today, it is only a comprehensive materialism which is able to sustain a truly ascetic militant ethical stance. Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View I have a profound liking for ideological integralism
Tragic Transgression and Symbolic Re-Inscription
Feigning madness is one of the dimensions of what we might call the strategy of the modern hero. Lacan, Le seminaire livre VI The purpose of this paper is to attempt to illustrate, in a non-tech
Aristotle's dream
One differentiates between the object and the representation. We know this is in order to represent it mentally. It suffices to have words which, as we say, “evoke,” or “summon,” representation. Ho
Le ressort de l'amour
I don’t think I’m exaggerating if I say that that [ ... ] which we concluded [ ... ] had thus far been neglected by all the commentators of the Symposium and that, for this reason, our commentary is a date in the continuation of the history of the development of the virtualities which are concealed by this dialogue. Lacan, Seminar VIII, lesson of 1 March 1961
The Event of Language as Force of Life
The article offers the authors' insight on the linguistic vitalism of the work of Girgio Agamben. They note that Agamben is considered a vitalist thinker and refines Heideggerian thought to bring out its extreme consequences. They believe that the ontological politicisation of philosophy of Agamben aims to collapse the metaphysical form of law into the undetermined form of life. They add that the positive notion of political agency cannot be deli…
The Bio-Theo-Politics of Birth
In this article I aim to show that, in their discussion of the possible biopolitical implications of the notion of birth, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Esposito share a similar vitalist notion of life. Both authors start off from the very same premise: before and outside of any symbolic (political and legal) constraining imposition on life, life is in itself a life as a unity of difference – a place of blind forces or a primordial intensity – t…
Biopolitics in Early Twenty-First-Century Italian Theory
The main aim of this collection of essays is to provide English readers with a critical update on current debates on biopolitics in and around Italian thought. More than a decade after the publicat
Agapeand the Anonymous Religion of Atheism
Today, it is only a comprehensive materialism which is able to sustain a truly ascetic militant ethical stance. Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View I have a profound liking for ideological integralism
Tragic Transgression and Symbolic Re-Inscription
Feigning madness is one of the dimensions of what we might call the strategy of the modern hero. Lacan, Le seminaire livre VI The purpose of this paper is to attempt to illustrate, in a non-tech
Tragic Transgression and Symbolic Re-Inscription
Feigning madness is one of the dimensions of what we might call the strategy of the modern hero. Lacan, Le seminaire livre VI The purpose of this paper is to attempt to illustrate, in a non-tech
Aristotle's dream
One differentiates between the object and the representation. We know this is in order to represent it mentally. It suffices to have words which, as we say, “evoke,” or “summon,” representation. Ho
Le ressort de l'amour
I don’t think I’m exaggerating if I say that that [ ... ] which we concluded [ ... ] had thus far been neglected by all the commentators of the Symposium and that, for this reason, our commentary is a date in the continuation of the history of the development of the virtualities which are concealed by this dialogue. Lacan, Seminar VIII, lesson of 1 March 1961
Subjectivity and Otherness
The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis of Lacan's work—and the dismissal by "anti-Lacanians" of Lacan as impossibly impenetrable—Subjectivity and Otherness argues for Lacan as a "paradoxically systematic" thinker, and for the necessity of a close analysis of his texts. Lorenzo Chiesa examines, from a philosophical perspective, the evolution …
Subjectivity and Otherness
Agapeand the Anonymous Religion of Atheism
Today, it is only a comprehensive materialism which is able to sustain a truly ascetic militant ethical stance. Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View I have a profound liking for ideological integralism
Topology of Fear
Biopolitics in Early Twenty-First-Century Italian Theory
The main aim of this collection of essays is to provide English readers with a critical update on current debates on biopolitics in and around Italian thought. More than a decade after the publicat
The Bio-Theo-Politics of Birth
In this article I aim to show that, in their discussion of the possible biopolitical implications of the notion of birth, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Esposito share a similar vitalist notion of life. Both authors start off from the very same premise: before and outside of any symbolic (political and legal) constraining imposition on life, life is in itself a life as a unity of difference – a place of blind forces or a primordial intensity – t…
The Event of Language as Force of Life
The article offers the authors' insight on the linguistic vitalism of the work of Girgio Agamben. They note that Agamben is considered a vitalist thinker and refines Heideggerian thought to bring out its extreme consequences. They believe that the ontological politicisation of philosophy of Agamben aims to collapse the metaphysical form of law into the undetermined form of life. They add that the positive notion of political agency cannot be deli…
Italian Thought Today
The Absence of the Sexual Relationship
Is what psychoanalysis calls the ‘absence of the sexual relationship’ the basic transcendental invariant of the speaking animal? Or should it be understood as a historical product? Also, assuming that language is structurally incomplete, and therefore that Homo sapiens cannot avoid the dialectic of semblance and truth, does this necessarily entail that the absence of meta-language always correspond to the absence of the sexual relationship? In th…
Introduction
Over the last two decades Italian biopolitical theory has ignited a series of fierce debates, in both philosophy and the social sciences. On the one hand, so-called ‘Italian Theory’ remains to date a highly problematic phrase; it is both too general, attempting to coalesce under its label a vast array of positions that remain in the end incompatible, and too specific, given the risk of resurrecting the frankly outdated category of national philos…
The Adventure
The Kingdom and the Glory
Arguing that Western power is both "government" and "glory," this book reveals the "theological-economic" paradigm at the origin of several of the most important components of modern politics and illuminates the function of consent and the media in today's democracies
Philosophy (8 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works)