Zoopolis. Animals in Biopolitics: review of The Biopolitical Animal, ed by Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani

Ermanno Castanò; Emanuela Fazzio

doi:10.53981/destrocos.v6i2.62978

Authors

Ermanno Castanò Liceo Benedetto Croce di Roma
Emanuela Fazzio Independent researcher, Rome, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53981/destrocos.v6i2.62978

Keywords:

biopolitics, Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, governmentality, animality

Abstract

What do animals have to do with biopolitics? The Biopolitical Animal, edited by Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani, tries to answer this question through the work of thinkers including Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Achille Mbembe. In this review the authors aim to underline the main issues of the book, through all the essays that compose it.

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Author Biographies

Ermanno Castanò, Liceo Benedetto Croce di Roma
Ermanno Castanò is PHD in Philosophy, teaches philosophy and is the author of many essays and books including:
- (with SALZANI, Carlo) Unattainable Humanity: Notes to Giorgio Agamben’s The Human Voice. (des)troços: revista de pensamento radical, Belo Horizonte, v. 6, n. 1, p. e56590, jan./jul. 2025.
- Italian Philosophy before the Animals. Review of Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy. Journal of Italian Philosophy, Volume 5 (2022)
- Italian Thought and Animality. Under Review: Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy. Radical Philosophy Review Volume 24, number 1 (2021): pp. 85–88 DOI: 10.5840/radphilrev20212413
- Book Review: Salzani, Carlo. 2022. Agamben and the Animal. Journal for Critical Animal Studies ISSN 1948-352X Volume 19, Issue 2, November 2022 91
Books in Italian:
- Agamben e l'animale. La politica dalla norma all'eccezione, Novalogos, Aprilia 2018
- Ecologia e potere. Un saggio su Murray Bookchin, Mimesis, Milano 2011
- Introduzione a Giorgio Agamben. Nuova edizione aumentata e corretta. (with Carlo Salzani) Il Melangolo, Genova 2024
Emanuela Fazzio, Independent researcher, Rome, Italy

Emanuela Fazzio is an aspiring PhD student with a Master of Arts in English Literature and Philosophy and a Master of Letters in Postcolonial and World Literatures. She has written a thesis on the applied ethics movement of Effective Altruism and another on female migrant characters in Italian postcolonial and migration literature.