Il Comune e l'Impero. Vita, Comunità e Conflitti dopo la Caduta del Muro di Berlino

The purpose of this article is to try to show the peculiarities of Italian philosophical and political reflection following the fall of the Ber- Mauer liner. The implosion of the second world had been welcomed by the liberal milieu as the ineluctable sign of the end of history and of need to abandon any communist hypothesis. To this trend international opposed several intellectuals who, in one way or the other, had been linked to practical and theoretical experiences of the mold communitarian. This is not to want to close the trajectories and the possibilities opened by authors such as Agamben, Esposito and Negri in a single horizon of shared meaning, but wanting to show a marked common plot from a double tendency: on the one hand an alternative response to that globalization process that had seen an epochal turning point in 1989, and on the other hand the effort to abandon the lexicon that politics had adopted at the time.