Containing community : from political economy to ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy / Greg Bird.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bird, Greg, 1978- author.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- Comunità che viene.

Agamben, Giorgio.

Esposito, Roberto, 1950- Communitas.

Esposito, Roberto.

Nancy, Jean-Luc. Être singulier pluriel.

Nancy, Jean-Luc.

Communities--Philosophy.

Communities.

Physical Description:

x, 249 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

Summary:

Community has been both celebrated and demonized as a fortress that shelters and defends its members from being exposed to difference. Instead of abandoning community as an antiquated model of relationships that is ill suited for our globalized world, this book turns to the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and Jean-Luc Nancy in search for ways to rethink community in an open and inclusive manner. Greg Bird argues that a central piece of this task is found in how each philosopher rearticulates community not as something that is proper to those who belong and improper to those who are excluded or where inclusion is based on one's share in common property. We must return to the forgotten dimension of sharing, not as a sharing of things that we can contain and own, but as a process that divides us up and shares us out in community with one another. This book traces this problem through a wide array of fields ranging from biopolitics, communitarianism, existentialism, phenomenology, political economy, radical philosophy, and social theory. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Political Economy and the Proper 5

I The Proprietary Confusion 8

II The Dialectic of Alienation and Appropriation 21

III Dis-Containing Community 27

2 Ontology and the Proper 37

I The Proper 38

II The Ereignis 43

III Interpreting the Ereignis 53

3 The Existential Community 63

Part 1 The 1980s 66

I The Political 66

II The Existential Community, Take One 69

Part 2 The 1990s 73

III Communism and a Deconstructed Phenomenology 73

IV The Existential Community, Take Two 81

Part 3 The 2000s 94

V Globalization 94

VI Existential Democracy 97

4 The Community Without Content 103

Part 1 Early Philosophical Concerns 107

I Language and Absolution 107

II Impotentiality and Inoperativeness 111

Part 2 The Coming Community 117

III Depoliticization 118

IV Ontological Ethos 122

V Whatever 129

Part 3 The Homo Sacer Series 133

VI Economic Theology and Political Economy 134

VII Language and Ethics 138

VIII Priests and Monks 140

IX Destituent Power 146

5 The Deontological Community 151

Part 1 Communitas 154

1 Deontology 156

II Ontology 163

Part 2 Community After Communitas 171

III Communitas and Immunitas 171

IV Communitarianism 176

V Radical Republicanism 180.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bird, Greg, 1978- author. Containing community.

ISBN:

9781438461854

1438461852

OCLC:

947816337