PIERRE LAMARCHE is professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Utah Valley University, USA. He has published widely on figures such as Negri, Heidegger, Benjamin, Blanchot, Bataille, Kofman, Derrida, Proust, Levinas, Nietzsche, and on intersections between Hellenistic philosophy—skepticism in particular—and nineteenth and twentieth-century European philosophy. His interest in Italian philosophy developed during graduate school, where he had the opportunity to take several classes with Harry Cleaver, one of the earliest English language translators of Antonio Negri’s work. This exposure led to interests in the Italian New Left as a whole, and beyond, to interlocutors with that movement such as Agamben, Vattimo, and Virno. Italian philosophy – in particular its contemporary forms – remains central to much of his work and thinking