At the Limits of the Political - Affect, Life, Things

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

1. Carl Schmitt's category of the political: politicizing the state of nature / 2. Michel Foucault on power and biopolitics: politicizing life / 3. Primordial politics of being-with in Jean-Luc Nancy: politicizing ontology / 4. Roberto Esposito's category of the impolitical: renewing the political / 5. Giorgio Agamben's outside: bare life and form-of-life / 6. Unpolitical life: Michel Henry and the real limits of biopolitics / 7. The great outdoors of politics: Quentin Meillassoux on ancestrality, extinction, justice / 8. Decolonizing political thought: Buddhist compassion at the limits of Western politics / Bibliography / Index

About the author

By Inna Viriasova

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Inna Viriasova
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781786604576
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-457-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, Modern philosophy: since c 1800