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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
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
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 (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. 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.
