“Les non-dupes errent”. Pensiero debole e politica

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to suggest a new ethical and individual form of political resistance. After a review of DarioGentili’s book "Italian theory. Dall’operaismo alla biopolitica", the essay retraces in its first part the political genealogy of the italian philosophical trend called “pensiero debole”, comparing it besides with the political and philosophical season of post-operaism. This comparison focuses in particular on the relation between the different positions of Pier Aldo Rovatti and Antonio Negri during the Seventies and the early Eighties. The second part of the essay expands some of the main philosophical themes of Rovatti’s “pensiero debole”, concentrating especially on the political aspects of Jacques Lacan’s and Michel Foucault’s thought. The philosophical question of the subject, according to the thought of the named authors, emerges at the end of the paper in its very political dimension.

Keywords

• Pier Aldo Rovatti
• Antonio Negri
• Pensiero Debole
• politics