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Offering a critical introduction to the philosophical debate on the concept of the political, this book explores recent developments in continental philosophy. Viriasova engages with key contemporary thinkers: Agamben, Esposito, Henry and Meillassoux and explores the current debate in the context of the Italian concept of the impolitical.
List of contents
Introduction: Beyond Politics / Part I / 1. Carl Schmitt: The General Economy of the Political / 2. Michel Foucault: Power and Biopolitics / 3. Jean-Luc Nancy: Primordial Politics of Being-With / 4. Massimo Cacciari and Roberto Esposito: The Category of the Impolitical / 5. Giorgio Agamben: Bare Life and Form-of-Life / Part II / 6. The Great Outdoors of Politics: Quentin Meillassoux on Ancestrality, Justice, and Extinction / 7. Unpolitical Life: Michel Henry and the Real Limits of Biopolitics / 8. Decolonizing Political Thought: Buddhist Compassion at the Limits of Western Politics / Conclusion / References / Index
About the author
Inna Viriasova is a lecturer in the Department of Politics at Acadia University, Canada. She is the co-editor (with Antonio Calcagno) of Roberto Esposito: Biopolitics and Philosophy (SUNY Press, Forthcoming) and the author of articles published in various journals, including the Journal of Global Ethics, Telos, Parrhesia and diacritics.
Summary
Offering a critical introduction to the philosophical debate on the concept of the political, this book explores recent developments in continental philosophy. Inna Viriasova engages with key contemporary thinkers including Agamben, Esposito, Henry and Meillassoux and explores the debate in the context of the Italian concept of the impolitical.
