Inna Viriasova

At the Limits of the Political

Affect, Life, Things

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering a critical introduction to the philosophical debate on the concept of the political, this book explores recent developments in continental philosophy. Viriasova engages with key contemporary thinkers: Agamben, Esposito, Henry and Meillassoux and explores the current debate in the context of the Italian concept of the impolitical.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781786604569
• ISBN-10: 1786604566
• Artikelnr.: 48694603

Autorenporträt

Inna Viriasova is a lecturer in the Department of Politics at Acadia University, Canada. She is the co-editor (with Antonio Calcagno) of Roberto Esposito: Biopolitics and Philosophy (SUNY Press, Forthcoming) and the author of articles published in various journals, including the Journal of Global Ethics, Telos, Parrhesia and diacritics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Beyond Politics
Part I
1. Carl Schmitt: The General Economy of the Political
2. Michel Foucault: Power and Biopolitics
3. Jean-Luc Nancy: Primordial Politics of Being-With
4. Massimo Cacciari and Roberto Esposito: The Category of the Impolitical
5. Giorgio Agamben: Bare Life and Form-of-Life
Part II
6. The Great Outdoors of Politics: Quentin Meillassoux on Ancestrality, Justice, and Extinction
7. Unpolitical Life: Michel Henry and the Real Limits of Biopolitics
8. Decolonizing Political Thought: Buddhist Compassion at the Limits of Western Politics
Conclusion
References
Index