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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Serie: Theory Redux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015
What is the relationship between persons and things? And how does the body transform this relationship? In this highly original new book, Roberto Esposito - one of Italy's leading political philosophers - considers these questions and shows that starting from the body, rather than from the thing or the person, can help us to reconsider the status of both. Ever since its beginnings, our civilization has been based on a strict, unequivocal distinction between persons and things, founded on the instrumental domination of persons over things. This opposition arose out of ancient Roman law and persisted throughout modernity, to take its place in our current global market, where it continues to generate growing contradictions. Although the distinction seems to appear clear and necessary to us, what we are continually witnessing in legal, economic, and technological practice is a reversal of perspectives: some categories of persons are becoming assimilated with things, while some types of things are taking on a personal profile. With his customary rigour, Roberto Esposito argues that there exists an escape route out of this paradox, constituted by a new point of view founded in the body. Neither a person nor a thing, the human body becomes the decisive element in rethinking the concepts and values that govern our philosophical, legal, and political lexicons.
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
1 Persons
Possession
The Great Division
Two in One
Use and Abuse
Non-Persons
Notes
2 Things
The Nothing of the Thing
Res
Words and Things
The Value of Things
Das Ding
Notes
3 Bodies
The Status of the Body
The Power of the Body
To Exist the Body
The Soul of Things
Political Bodies
Notes
End User License Agreement
Guide
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Theory Redux
Series editor: Laurent de Sutter
Persons and Things
From the Body’s Point of View
Roberto Esposito
Translated by Zakiya Hanafi
polity
Copyright © Roberto Esposito 2015
The right of Roberto Esposito to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First published in 2015 by Polity Press
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-9068-1
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Esposito, Roberto, 1950-[Persone e le cose. English]Persons and things : from the body’s point of view / Roberto Esposito.pages cmISBN 978-0-7456-9064-3 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7456-9065-0 (pbk.) 1. Individualism. 2. Persons. 3. Property. 4. Materialism. 5. Human body (Philosophy) I. Title.B824.E8613 2015110--dc23
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My thanks to Zakiya Hanafi for the linguistic skill, interpretive intelligence, and unparalleled care she has brought to translating this and other books of mine.
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