ABSTRACT

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Christian Democrat politician, Aldo Moro, marked the watershed of Italy's experience of political violence in the period known as the 'years of lead' (1969-c.1983). This uniquely interdisciplinary volume explores the evolving legacy of Moro's death in the Italian cultural imaginary, from the late 1970s to the present. Bringing a wide range of critical perspectives to bear, interventions by experts in the fields of political science, social anthropology, philosophy, and cultural critique elicit new understandings of the events of 1978 and explain their significance and relevance to present-day Italian culture and society.

part I|32 pages

Modes of Emplotment

part II|46 pages

Tropes, Language, and Trauma

chapter 3|16 pages

Doxa, Orthodox, Paradox, Heterodox, Oxymoron

Aldo Moro’s Lettere dalla prigione del popolo

chapter 4|18 pages

Moro as Figure of Speech

The Displaced Confessions of the Women of the Brigate Rosse

chapter 5|11 pages

Moro, Morucci, Moretti

Oxymoron and the Prison of Political Language

part III|28 pages

The Body of Moro

chapter 6|14 pages

Moro’s Body between Enlightenment and Postmodernism

Terror, Murder, and Meaning in Jean Baudrillard and Leonardo Sciascia

chapter 7|13 pages

Unbury that Body

The Tragic Palinode of a Generation in Marco Baliani’s Corpo di stato

part IV|52 pages

Mediating Moro