Paula Landerreche Cardillo and Rachel Silverbloom (eds.), Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero’s Political Thought – SUNY Press, 2024

The Editors’ Introduction is open access

The first edited volume solely dedicated to the philosophy of Adriana Cavaero.


“Landerreche Cardillo and Silverbloom are right to hold that Cavarero has reached ‘critical acclaim’ in the ‘Italian and English-speaking world.’ I would broaden this audience to include the rest of Europe, Latin America, and very likely other areas of the world. Cavarero’s areas of expertise—philosophy, political science, women’s and gender studies, feminist theory, musicology, literature, modern languages, queer theory, and the arts—demand a common theme to link them together within the pages of a single volume. The editors have chosen Cavarer’s political philosophy in response to that demand. Their choice is wise because the political area is central to Cavarero’s many books and of great interest to interdisciplinary as well as to philosophical thinkers and academics. Political Bodies constitutes an exciting inaugural contribution to what might be called the field of ‘Cavarero studies.'” — Fred Evans, author of Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics