The Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life
ISBN: 9780823273287
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Italy -- History; Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects; Motion pictures -- Philosophy;

In The Techne of Giving, Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving.

Campbell Timothy C. :

Timothy C. Campbell is Professor of Italian at Cornell University. In addition to his translations of Roberto Esposito's Bios: Biopolitics and
Philosophy and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community , he is most recently the author of Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life (2017) from Fordham University Press.

Timothy C. Campbell is a professor of Italian at Cornell University.

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