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Biografisk notat
Giacomo Marramao is Professor of Political and Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Rome III and Director of the Fondazione Basso. His publications include Kairós: Towards an Ontology of Due Time and La passione del presente.Giacomo Marramao's rare spirit of intellectual innovation has enlarged the thinking of his wide circle of admirers.
- Homi Bhabha,
The work of Giacomo Marramao, in my opinion, is one of the most important contributions to the philosophical conversation today.
- Étienne Balibar,
A remarkable book which makes a powerful and engaging contribution to contemporary debates on globalization and provides an original philosophical perspective for re-framing the question of the West.
- Adriana Cavarero, author of <i>Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence</i>,
A penetrating and incisive study of the economic, political, and ideological frameworks of our current global political landscape ... this intelligent investigation is a worthy inheritance to the ideological terrain it discusses and is a significant contribution to the field of contemporary political philosophy.
Publisher's Weekly
[Marramao] engages in a wide ranging philosophical discussion that engages with the concept of the global articulated by such figures as Spengler, Jünger, Schmitt, and Heidegger; explores debates between liberalism and communitarianism; proposes the concept of world-modernity as a successor to nation-modernity; considers the question of identity as the reference point for political conflict; and argues for the formulation of a universal politics of difference to replace the Western notion of universal norms.
Book News
Giacomo Marramao's <i>The Passage West </i>is a whirlwind of a book, filled with provocative ideas and startling theoretical juxtapositions
- Martin Jay, Politica Comune
Building on the great interwar discussion between Spengler, Junger, Schmitt and Heidegger, Marramao's new work engages with Habermas, Derrida and post-colonialism. Arguing against the classic Western pretension to universal norms of democracy and reason, he develops instead the idea of a 'universal politics of difference'.