Bíos

Released on by Roberto Esposito
preview-18

  • Bíos Book Detail

  • Author : Roberto Esposito
  • Release Date : 2008
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Genre : Philosophy
  • Pages : 275
  • ISBN 13 : 0816649898
  • File Size : 11,11 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Bíos by Roberto Esposito PDF Summary

Book Description: Roberto Esposito is one of the most prolific and important exponents of contemporary Italian political theory. Bíos-his first book to be translated into English-builds on two decades of highly regarded thought, including his thesis that the modern individual-with all of its civil and political rights as well as its moral powers-is an attempt to attain immunity from the contagion of the extraindividual, namely, the community. In Bíos, Esposito applies such a paradigm of immunization to the analysis of the radical transformation of the political into biopolitics. Bíos discusses the origins and meanings of biopolitical discourse, demonstrates why none of the categories of modern political thought is useful for completely grasping the essence of biopolitics, and reconstructs the negative biopolitical core of Nazism. Esposito suggests that the best contemporary response to the current deadly version of biopolitics is to understand what could make up the elements of a positive biopolitics-a politics of life rather than a politics of mastery and negation of life. In his introduction, Timothy Campbell situates Esposito's arguments within American and European thinking on biopolitics. A comprehensive, illuminating, and highly original treatment of a critically important topic, Bíos introduces an English-reading public to a philosophy that will critically impact such wide-ranging current debates as stem cell research, euthanasia, and the war on terrorism. Roberto Esposito teaches contemporary philosophy at the Italian Institute for the Human Sciences in Naples. His books include Categorie dell impolitico, Nove pensieri sulla politica, Communitas: orgine e destino della comunità, and Immunitas: protezione e negazione della vita. Timothy Campbell is associate professor of Italian studies in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University and the author of Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi (Minnesota, 2006).

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Bíos books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Bíos

Bíos

File Size : 76,76 MB
Total View : 6791 Views
DOWNLOAD

Roberto Esposito is one of the most prolific and important exponents of contemporary Italian political theory. Bíos-his first book to be translated into Englis

Immunitas

Immunitas

File Size : 37,37 MB
Total View : 5818 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book by Roberto Esposito - a leading Italian political philosopher - is a highly original exploration of the relationship between human bodies and societie

The Third Person

The Third Person

File Size : 61,61 MB
Total View : 9277 Views
DOWNLOAD

Roberto Esposito is one of leading figures in a new generation of Italian philosophers. This book criticizes the notion of the person and develops an original a

Living Thought

Living Thought

File Size : 41,41 MB
Total View : 429 Views
DOWNLOAD

The work of contemporary Italian thinkers, what Roberto Esposito refers to as Italian Theory, is attracting increasing attention around the world. This book exp

Communitas

Communitas

File Size : 61,61 MB
Total View : 2164 Views
DOWNLOAD

Roberto Esposito, a leading Italian philosopher, deconstructs the notion of community by examining its etymological roots in the Latin munus, or gift, and then