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Il contesto italiano contemporaneo e di fatto un esempio quanto mai interessante e sintomatico per il definirsi di forme plurali e non monologiche di impegno politico-culturale, che pur rifiutando forme di assolutismo o essenzialismo epistemico o ideologico, mantengono fede a una consolidata tradizione di engagement artistico.
The Editors: Pierpaolo Antonello is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John’s College. His publications include Il ménage a quattro: Scienza, filosofia e tecnica nella letteratura italiana del Novecento (2005), Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy, 1969–2009 (2009, co-edited with Alan O’Leary) and a long interview with the French anthropologist René Girard, Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture (2008, with João Cezar de Castro Rocha).
Florian Mussgnug is Lecturer in Italian at University College London and a member of the executive committee of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA). He has published essays on twentieth-century Italian literature, high modernist experimental prose, philosophy of language, literary theory and comparative literature. His book The Eloquence of Ghosts: Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife of the Avant-Garde is forthcoming from Peter Lang.