This volume brings together essays by different generations of Italian thinkers which address, whether in affirmative, problematizing or genealogical registers, the entanglement of philosophical speculation and political proposition within recent Italian thought. Nihilism and biopolitics, two concepts that have played a very prominent role in theoretical discussions in Italy, serve as the thematic foci around which the collection orbits, as it seeks to define the historical and geographical particularity of these notions as well their continuing impact on an international debate.

这卷汇集了不同世代的意大利思想家的论文，其中涉及，无论是在肯定，问题或谱系登记，哲学思考和政治主张的纠缠在最近的意大利思想。虚无主义和生物政治学这两个概念在意大利的理论讨论中发挥了非常突出的作用，它们是本集围绕的主题焦点，因为它试图界定这些概念的历史和地理特殊性及其对国际辩论的持续影响。