Next week, the Italian Philosopher Davide Tarizzo, will present a series of talks to inaugurate Kent\u2019s new Centre for Critical Thought (CCT).<\/p>\n
The CCT is founded upon the shared interests in continental philosophy of colleagues in the\u00a0Kent Law School<\/a>, the School of\u00a0Politics and International Relations<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the Department of Italian<\/a>,\u00a0and 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.\u00a0CCT\u00a0is 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.<\/p>\n The talks are \u2018Human Properties and Subjective Rights: Villey, Macpherson, Lacan\u2019 (22 October) and \u2018From Biopolitics to Ethopolitics: Foucault, Illich and Us\u2019 (23 October). Tarizzo will also give an Italian Studies interdisciplinary talk entitled \u2018Fourth Person: On Esposito’s Impersonal Biopolitics’\u00a0on 24 October.<\/p>\n Davide Tarizzo teaches Moral Philosophy at the University of Salerno<\/a> and Political Philosophy at L’Orientale: Universita’\u00a0di\u00a0Napoli<\/a> [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<\/em> (Laterza, 2007), and La vita, un’invenzione recente<\/em> (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<\/em>.<\/p>\n For more details, please see the page here:
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