La vita che verrà. Biopolitica per Homo sapiens

In this book I argue that human nature coincides with the faculty of language. The various chapters of the book develop this thesis. The first chapter criticized the idea that there might be a gene for language, because languages are so natural entities as historical and social ones. The second chapter deals with the particular constitution of human body, at the same time a biological and a artificial entity. The third chapter, beginning with Aristotle, addresses the issue of the nexus between politics and biology. Chapters fourth and fifth address the issue of biolinguistics, however not understood simply as a "biology of language", but as a study of the peculiar character of human body, an entity where individual and trans-individual dimensions co-exist. The sixth chapter criticizes Freudian psychoanalysis that considers desire something that has to be suppressed and controlled. In the last chapter, basing on Lacan, I draw the ethical and political consequences of the vision of human nature that I propose in this book.