Italian philosophy constitutes one of the most vibrant and fruitful areas in contemporary thought, bringing extraordinary novelty to some of the oldest tropes, from human nature to the relation between political power and life, the thinking of actuality and potential, and the nature of work and labour.

This reader includes texts by the most renowned thinkers, from Dante and Machiavelli to Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, and Roberto Esposito, all of which are introduced by an expert on the particular thinker, and situated within the context of their work as a whole.

The Bloomsbury Italian Philosophy Reader provides a unique resource for students and scholars alike, covering the history of Italian thought to the present day.

Michael Lewis Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is author of Heidegger and the Place of Ethics, Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction, Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing, and The Beautiful Animal: Sincerity, Charm, and the Fossilised Dialectic. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Italian Philosophy.

David Rose is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.