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What is the relationship between persons and things? And how does the body transform this relationship? In this highly original new book, Roberto Esposito - one of Italy's leading political philosophers - considers these questions and shows that starting from the body, rather than from the thing or the person, can help us to reconsider the status of both.
Ever since its beginnings, our civilization has been based on a strict, unequivocal distinction between persons and things, founded on the instrumental domination of persons over things. This opposition arose out of ancient Roman law and persisted throughout modernity, to take its place in our current global market, where it continues to generate growing contradictions. Although the distinction seems to appear clear and necessary to us, what we are continually witnessing in legal, economic, and technological practice is a reversal of perspectives: some categories of persons are becoming assimilated with things, while some types of things are taking on a personal profile.
With his customary rigour, Roberto Esposito argues that there exists an escape route out of this paradox, constituted by a new point of view founded in the body. Neither a person nor a thing, the human body becomes the decisive element in rethinking the concepts and values that govern our philosophical, legal, and political lexicons.
Sommario
Title Third Person
Author Roberto Esposito
ISBN 978-0745643984
Publisher Polity Press
Publication date 16/07/2012
Price $22.95
Page count 200
Trim size 6 x 9 inches
Sales -
Positives Esposito pursues his strikingly original and innovative philosophical inquiry by inviting reflection on the category of the impersonal
Negatives Does not view from the point of view of the body.
Title Communitas
Author Roberto Esposito
ISBN 978-0804746472
Publisher Stanford University Press
Publication date 29/10/2009
Price $14.93
Page count 192
Trim size 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
Sales -
Positives A radical overturning of contemporary interpretations of community
Negatives Does not view from the point of view of the body.
Title Bios
Author Roberto Esposito
ISBN 978-0816649907
Publisher Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date 17/04/2008
Price $22.50
Page count 304
Trim size 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
Sales -
Positives A comprehensive, illuminating, and highly original treatment of a critically important topic.
Negatives Does not view from the point of view of the body.
Info autore
Roberto Esposito is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Naples
Riassunto
What is the relationship between persons and things? And how does the body transform this relationship? In this book, the author - one of Italy's leading political philosophers - considers these questions and shows that starting from the body, rather than from the thing or the person, can help us to reconsider the status of both.
Relazione
Continuing his elaboration of the dispositive of person first set out in Third Person, philosopher Roberto Esposito turns his attention in this new book to the often troubled relation between human being and thing. The result is not only a wondrous reading of the semantics of the person and thing. but also an invitation to consider ?the living body? of multitudes as a possible response. Working across the fields of political philosophy and law, Persons and Things offers the reader dazzling perspectives on person as thing and thing as person. This, quite simply, is a brilliant book.
Timothy Campbell, Cornell University
