Roberto Esposito : : New Directions in Biophilosophy / / Tilottama Rajan, Antonio Calcagno.

Internationally recognised scholars explore central themes and questions in Roberto Esposito’s thoughtHelps scholars and readers of Esposito’s work to understand the rich background that gives rise to and situates his bio-political worksIncludes an important new essay by Roberto Esposito himself tha...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Beyond Biopolitics – The Space and General Economy of Esposito’s Work
  • I. Beginnings: Esposito’s Early Work
  • 1. Esposito and Machiavelli: Inspiration and Affinity
  • 2. Feudal Authority and Conflict in History: Giambattista Vico and Roberto Esposito’s A Philosophy for Europe: From the Outside
  • 3. Genres of the Political: The Impolitical Comedy of Conflict
  • II. Intensifications: Living Thought, Methodology and the Biological Turn
  • 4. Immunisation and the Natural Sciences: Esposito on Disciplines, Deconstruction and Equilibrium
  • 5. Openings: Biology and Philosophy in Esposito, Bichat and Hegel
  • 6. Esposito’s Transversalities
  • III. Transversal Readings: Esposito in Dialogue with Others
  • 7. (Auto)immunity in Esposito and Derrida
  • 8. Third Person and Fourth Person: Esposito and Blanchot
  • 9. Repositioning Simone Weil and Roberto Esposito: Life, the Impersonal and the Renunciant Obligation of the Good
  • 10. The Vico-Momentum: Esposito on Language and Life
  • 11. Esposito, Nancy and the Evasion of Dialectics
  • 12. Outside of Thought
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index