Wed, March 23, 2016
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Suzanne M. Scharer Room - Ohio Union
"In the wake of the crisis of Western culture, Italy gave rise to fascism as a savage vitalism that incorporated the archaic as it expropriated the feminine dimension of origin. With a critique of the works of theorists Giovanni Papini, Romano Bilenchi, Curzio Malaparte, and a novel appraisal of Carlo Levi, Andrea Righi boldy suggests that it may be possible to understand mortality without turning it into a technology of oppression."