Extracted from publication Filosofia italiana
Radical Italian Thought and the World. Interview with Michael Hardt
DOI: 10.53136/97912218243159
Pages: 127-134
Publication date: Dicember 2025
Publisher: Aracne
SSD:
IUS/20 M-FIL/01 M-FIL/03 M-FIL/06 SPS/01
This interview aims to highlight the connections between Michael Hardt’s political thought and Italian philosophy. From his academic training to his militant background, the conversation focuses on the American intellectual’s relationship with figures such as Fredric Jameson, Toni Negri, and Paolo Virno, eventually discussing his engagement with some classics of Italian philosophical thought (notably Machiavelli and Gramsci). The result is a picture that reveals Hardt’s use of Italian philosophy in the attempt to move beyond both the traditional categories of Marxism – updating them through the lens of postcolonial studies – and the limitations of philosophical nationalisms.
