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Political ontology, community, and institutions : Roberto Esposito in dialogue with contemporary thinkers / edited by Laura Cremonesi, Rita Fulco, and Valentina Surace.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Cremonesi, Laura, editor.
Fulco, Rita, editor.
Surace, Valentina, editor.
Series:
SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy.
SUNY Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Communities--Philosophy.
Communities.
Political science--Philosophy.
Political science.
Esposito, Roberto, 1950-.
Esposito, Roberto.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (0 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2025]
Summary:
Focuses on key aspects of Robert Esposito's thought and explores the ways in which some major contemporary thinkers have been crucial interlocutors in their elaboration.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Politics and Institutions
Political Ontology and Community
Conclusion
Part One: Politics and Institutions
1. From the Impersonal to Instituting Thought: Esposito's Departure from Deleuze
Background: The Deleuzian Struggle against the Negative
The Play of Immanence and the Power of Conflict
Honeymoon
Mortal Embrace
Showdown
Notes
2. From Biopolitics to Common Immunity: The Role of Michel Foucault in the Philosophy of Roberto Esposito
3. Conflict and Institution: Roberto Esposito and Claude Lefort
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4. Polis and Polemos: Esposito between Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil
Philosophy according to Esposito: Genealogy and Actuality
The Origin: Philosophy and the Political
Impolitical and/but Instituting Thought?
5. The Political in Roberto Esposito and Carl Schmitt
Form or Energy
The Symmetry of Conflict
Part Two: Political Ontology and Community
6. On Bodies: Perspectives of a Dialogue between Esposito and Nancy
Ecotechnics of Bodies
Immune Bodies?
Phenomenological Grafts: Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Esposito
To Touch the World
The Flesh of the World
Inappropriate Body
Immune, Intruding, Common Bodies
7. The Impersonal between Ethics and Politics: Roberto Esposito and Emmanuel Levinas on the Third Person
Esposito's Political Impersonal
Levinas's Ethical Impersonal
Conclusions
8. Assurance and Community: The Far Proximity between Esposito and Heidegger
Biopolitics of Immunity
Mit-Dasein and Worldliness
The Disposition of Community
Immunity and Tolerance
Common Singularity
Assurance and Immunity
9. Roberto Esposito and Reiner Schürmann: A Political Ontology after Heidegger.
Heidegger's Political Ontology
The Black Notebooks
Esposito on Heidegger (and Schürmann)
10. Immunity and Community: A Note of Discord between Roberto Esposito and Jacques Derrida
Com-munity
Immuno-Democracies
Pharmaco-Logic
Biopower
11. From the Neuter to the Instituting Praxis: The Role of Blanchot in Roberto Esposito's Thought
Two Paradigms of Crisis
Neutralizing Dialectics
Double Negation and Living Synthesis
Appendix: Institutions, Conflicts, Common Immunity: In Dialogue with Roberto Esposito
Contributors
Index.
Notes:
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ISBN:
979-88-558-0210-8
OCLC:
1515462362

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