Next week, the Italian Philosopher Davide Tarizzo, will present a series of talks to inaugurate Kent’s new Centre for Critical Thought (CCT).
The CCT is founded upon the shared interests in continental philosophy of colleagues in the Kent Law School, the School of Politics and International Relations and the Department of Italian, and draws on related research of staff from other Schools across the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences. The CCT aims to consolidate, sustain and develop research being carried out at the cutting edge of the broad area of critically-oriented theory. CCT is an interdisciplinary venture and involves staff with expertise in modern European philosophy, political thought, critical legal theory, psychoanalytic theory, social anthropology, film and drama theory.
The talks are ‘Human Properties and Subjective Rights: Villey, Macpherson, Lacan’ (22 October) and ‘From Biopolitics to Ethopolitics: Foucault, Illich and Us’ (23 October). Tarizzo will also give an Italian Studies interdisciplinary talk entitled ‘Fourth Person: On Esposito’s Impersonal Biopolitics’ on 24 October.
Davide Tarizzo teaches Moral Philosophy at the University of Salerno and Political Philosophy at L’Orientale: Universita’ di Napoli [Naples Eastern University]. He has edited the Italian translations of several books by contemporary philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, Ernesto Laclau, Alain Badiou, and others. Among his most recent publications are Giochi di potere: Sulla paranoia politica (Laterza, 2007), and La vita, un’invenzione recente (Laterza, 2010). He is currently writing a book on Freud, Lacan and the question of political subjectification provisionally entitled The Missing People: Modern Politics and its Enigma.
For more details, please see the page here:
www.kent.ac.uk/secl/italian/events