Donatella Di Cesare
Список книг автора Donatella Di CesareThe Time of Revolt
As capitalism triumphs on the ruins of utopias and faith in progress fades, revolts are breaking out everywhere. From London to Hong Kong and from Buenos Aires to Beirut, protests flare up, in some cases spreading like wildfire, in other cases petering out and reigniting elsewhere. Not even the pandemic has been able to stop them: as many were reflecting on the loss of public space, the fuse of a fresh explosion was lit in Minneapolis with the brutal murder of George Floyd. We are living in an age of revolt. But what is revolt? It would be a mistake to think of it as simply an explosion of anger, a spontaneous and irrational outburst, as it is often portrayed in the media. Exploding anger is not a bolt from the blue but a symptom of a social order in which the sovereignty of the state has imposed itself as the sole condition of order. Revolt challenges the sovereignty of the state, whether it is democratic or despotic, exposing the violence that underpins it. Revolt upsets the agenda of power, interrupts time, throws history into disarray. The time of revolt, discontinuous and intermittent, is also a revolt of time, an anarchic transition to a space of time that disengages itself from the architecture of politics. This brilliant reflection on the nature and significance of revolt will be of interest to students of politics and philosophy and to anyone concerned with the key questions of politics today.
The Political Vocation of Philosophy
It is time for philosophy to return to the city. In today’s crisis-ridden world of globalised capitalism, increasingly closed in on itself, it may seem harder than ever to think of ways out. Philosophy runs the risk of becoming the handmaiden of science and of a hollowed-out democracy. Donatella Di Cesare calls on philosophy instead to return to the political fray and to the city, the global pólis , from which it was banished after the death of Socrates. Suggesting a radical existentialism and a new anarchism, Di Cesare shows that Western philosophy has been characterised by a political vocation ever since its origins in ancient Greece, and argues that the separation of philosophy from its political roots robs it of its most valuable and enlightening potential. But critique and dissent are no longer enough. Mindful of a defeated exile and an inner emigration, philosophers should return to politics and forge an alliance with the poor and the downtrodden. This passionate defence of the political relevance of philosophy and its radical potential in our globalised world will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy and to a wide general readership.
El Tiempo de la revuelta
Marginada por la reflexión, presentada por los medios de comunicación como un evento caótico y escurridizo, la revuelta es un tema incandescente en el escenario global. Aunque se encienda, se apague, se vuelva a propagar, la revuelta no es un evento efímero, sino que es una transición anárquica que se produce en el proceso de liberación de la arquitectura política. A través de la revuelta podemos vislumbrar lo que sucede «afuera», más allá del orden estatocéntrico, en torno a las protegidas fronteras del espacio público; podemos abrir brechas, cuestionar el statu quo, denunciar la injusticia, cuestionar «lo dado».
En este elogio de la revuelta, Donatella Di Cesare aborda sus diversos aspectos políticos y filosóficos, ofrece una interpretación política de la máscara, del ocultar el rostro para mostrarse un sujeto, y el desafío que supone para el Estado y la economía desencarnada. La prestigiosa filósofa revela en El tiempo de la revuelta las enormes asimetrías sociales, pone al descubierto la disparidad de fuerzas que configuran los límites de la polis, denuncia la vigilancia planetaria y se pregunta por los fenómenos «afuera» del Estado, por la revolución perdida y por la resistencia.
¿Virus soberano?
El coronavirus es un virus soberano que traspasa los muros patrióticos, las arrogantes fronteras de los soberanistas. Y revela con toda su terrible crudeza la lógica inmunitaria que excluye a los más débiles. La diferencia entre protegidos e indefensos, que desafía toda idea de justicia, no ha sido nunca tan evidente. El virus ha puesto al descubierto la crueldad del capitalismo y muestra la imposibilidad de salvarse si no es con ayuda mutua, obligando a pensar una nueva forma de vivir juntos.
Un incisivo análisis del acontecimiento histórico que ya ha marcado el siglo XXI. Desde la cuestión ecológica hasta el gobierno de expertos, desde el estado de alarma hasta la democracia inmunitaria, desde el dominio del miedo hasta el contagio de la conspiración, desde la distancia impuesta hasta el control digital: cómo está cambiando la existencia, cuáles pueden ser los efectos políticos en el futuro.
Resident Foreigners
From the shores of Europe to the Mexican-US border, mass migration is one of the most pressing issues we face today. Yet at the same time, calls to defend national sovereignty are becoming ever more vitriolic, with those fleeing war, persecution, and famine vilified as a threat to our security as well as our social and economic order. In this book, written amidst the dark resurgence of appeals to defend ‘blood and soil’, Donatella Di Cesare challenges the idea of the exclusionary state, arguing that migration is a fundamental human right. She develops an original philosophy of migration that places the migrants themselves, rather than states and their borders, at the centre. Through an analysis of three historic cities, Athens, Rome and Jerusalem, Di Cesare shows how we should conceive of migrants not as an other but rather as resident foreigners. This means recognising that citizenship cannot be based on any supposed connection to the land or an exclusive claim to ownership that would deny the rights of those who arrive as migrants. Instead, citizenship must be disconnected from the possession of territory altogether and founded on the principle of cohabitation – and on the ultimate reality that we are all temporary guests and tenants of the earth. Di Cesare’s argument for a new ethics of hospitality will be of great interest to all those concerned with the challenges posed by migration and with the increasingly hostile attitudes towards migrants, as well as students and scholars of philosophy and political theory.
Von der politischen Berufung der Philosophie
Während in der vollends globalisierten, kapitalisierten und integrierten Welt ohne Außen Krise auf Krise folgt und menschenfeindliche Positionen immer mehr Raum gewinnen, verhält die Philosophie sich eigentümlich konformistisch: In Ethikkommissionen stellt sie hier und da eine zaghafte Empfehlung moralischer Angemessenheit aus und bescheidet sich ansonsten damit, das Bestehende intellektuell mitzuverwalten. In ihrer ebenso leidenschaftlichen wie scharfsinnigen Abhandlung ruft Donatella Di Cesare die Philosophie dazu auf, sich wieder ins politische Handgemenge zu begeben und in die Stadt, die globale Polis, zurückzukehren, aus der sie nach dem Tod des Sokrates vertrieben worden war. Getragen von radikalem Existenzialismus und einem neuen Anarchismus zeigt sie, dass in die abendländische Philosophie seit ihrem antiken Anfang eine politische Berufung eingeschrieben war, deren Verdrängung sie um ihr Wertvollstes, um ihre aufklärerische Potenz, bringt. Doch Kritik und Dissens allein reichen nicht mehr aus. Der Niederlage des Exils, der inneren Emigration eingedenk kehren die Philosophen jetzt zurück, um ein Bündnis mit den Unterdrückten zu schmieden. Ein fulminantes Plädoyer für die politische Relevanz der Philosophie, ihre radikale Zeitgenossenschaft und ihre atopische Widerstandskraft.