Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean

"Franco Cassano's Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean, finally available to an English-language audience thanks to this long-overdue translation, represents an important contribution to the cultural and philosophical critique of modernity. Cassano's essay traces a "Southern" agenda to thinking and learning about the world. In doing so, Cassano, professor of sociology at the University of Bari in southern Italy, also seeks to unsettle the orthodox topography of Europe and the latter's position within narratives about modernization and development. The text, which originally appeared in Italian in 1996 and was reprinted with a new preface in 2005, has a "cult book" status within Italian academic and public debates." - Nick Dines (Roma Tre University), H-SAE