Alberto Toscano

Alberto Toscano is a cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher and translator best known to the English-speaking world for his translations of the work of Alain Badiou, including Badiou’s The Century and Logics of Worlds. He served as both editor and translator of Badiou’s Theoretical Writings and On Beckett.

Alberto Toscano's own work has been described both as an investigation of the persistence of the idea of communism in contemporary thought and a genealogical inquiry into the concept of fanaticism.[1] He is the author of The Theatre of Production (2006), and his book Fanaticism: The Uses of an Idea was published in 2010. Toscano has published numerous articles on contemporary philosophy, politics and social theory: a recent article being his treatment of the Tarnac 9 case, written for The Guardian in December 2009.[2]

A lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, Toscano is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. According to Alex Callinicos this journal "has been one of the main drivers of the academic revival of Marxism" [3] since the mid-1990s.

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Selected bibliography

Translated Books
Authored books
Articles in edited collections and books

Film appearances

References

  1. ^ http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/alberto-toscano
  2. ^ Criminalising Dissent in this article at The Guardian, Toscano points out that the case of France's Tarnac Nine shows we are losing the political literacy to distinguish between sabotage and terrorism
  3. ^ Alex Callinicos (July 1, 2010). "Marxism 2010: fixing a broken system". guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2010/jul/01/marxism-2010-global-financial-system. Retrieved July 6, 2010. 
  4. ^ Contributions from various Badiou scholars and translators including, along with Toscano and Clemens, Bruno Bosteels, Ray Brassier, Oliver Feltham, Z.L. Fraser

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