Description: Further DetailsTitle: BiosCondition: NewEAN: 9780816649907ISBN: 9780816649907Publisher: University of Minnesota PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/17/2008Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 18mmTranslator: Timothy CampbellContributor: Timothy Campbell (Translated by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Biopolitics and PhilosophyISBN-10: 0816649901Description: 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).Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: PosthumanitiesAuthor: Roberto EspositoRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Bios
Title: Bios
EAN: 9780816649907
ISBN: 9780816649907
Release Date: 04/17/2008
Release Year: 2008
Translator: Timothy Campbell
Contributor: Timothy Campbell (Translated by)
Subtitle: Biopolitics and Philosophy
ISBN-10: 0816649901
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Bios : Biopolitics and Philosophy
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, History & Theory, Movements / General, Political
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2008
Item Weight: 13.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy, Political Science, Science
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Roberto. Esposito
Series: Posthumanities Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
