Here is what Thomas says about Losurdo:
Losurdo is one of the most innovative and proli.c left intellectuals of
contemporary
Italy. Born in 1941 in the Mezzogiorno, educated at the Universities
of Urbino and Tübingen, he is currently ordinario (full professor) at the
University of Urbino and regular commentator on contemporary Italian and
international politics in his capacity as a member of Rifondazione comunista.
He has produced a large body of scholarly work that aims at an analysis of
European, and particularly German, philosophy and political thought, taking
in Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger and, appropriately, Gramsci,
as well as Bonapartism, Italian Neo-Hegelianism and historical revisionism.
At least two studies, now available in EnglishHeidegger and the Ideology of
War: Community, Death, and the West (2001; Italian edition 1991) and Hegel
and the Freedom of Moderns (2004; Italian edition 1992)have become
fundamental reference works. A particular focus of Losurdos more recent
scholarship is the critical re-reading of the liberal tradition throughout the
nineteenth century, informed by a two-fold aim: .rst, to provide an
archaeology
of a tradition that continues to dominate contemporary politics and
cultural practice; and second, to encourage a reassessment and perhaps
even revision of the Marxist tradition through an engagement with the .ndings
of this research.
Note that Losurdo's book on Hegel has also been translated into
English. You know, Italy produces a lot of interesting stuff. It's a
shame that France takes priority in the snob culture pecking order.
At 12:59 PM 8/5/2006 -0400, Jerry Monaco wrote:
On 8/5/06, Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thomas, Peter. "Over-Man and the Commune," New Left Review, new series, no.
31, January-February 2005, pp. 137-144. Review of: Domenico Losurdo,
Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico & Jan Rehmann, Postmoderner
Links-Nietzscheanismus: Deleuze und Foucault; eine Dekonstruktion.
Thanks for this. I have been looking for Losurdo's book on Nietzsche
for a long time but I can't find it in English. I saw in a bookstore
in Rome but I can barely make my way through the simplest Italian and
the idea of reading Losurdo in Italian was daunting.
But for those who are all interested in Losurdo's general way of
looking at an author I can highly recommend his historical
contextualization of Heidegger.
_Heidegger and the Ideology of War: Community, Death, and the West_
It is well worth reading for any anti-Heideggerian.
Jerry Monaco
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