{"title":"Roberto Esposito","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the thought-provoking world of \u003cstrong\u003eRoberto Esposito\u003c\/strong\u003e, a distinguished voice in contemporary philosophy and political theory. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eA Philosophy for Europe\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCommon Immunity\u003c\/em\u003e, challenge readers to confront the intricate relationships between individual and collective identities, making his insights profoundly relevant in today's political landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEsposito's writings engage deeply with the notions of institutions and the politics of memory, as seen in titles like \u003cem\u003eInstituting Thought\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Faces of the Adversary\u003c\/em\u003e. His exploration of the intersections between philosophy and current affairs invites readers to reflect critically on the societal structures that shape our lives, offering a rich tapestry of ideas for those passionate about \u003cstrong\u003ePhilosophy \u0026amp; Psychology\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vitam-instituere-by-roberto-esposito-9781509564088","title":"Vitam Instituere","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Roberto Esposito continues his philosophical exploration of the relation between institutions and human life. Starting from the enigmatic Latin term \u003ci\u003evitam instituere\u003c\/i\u003e, he charts its early emergence in modern philosophy and its development along a path that culminates in a novel understanding of the relationship between politics and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough the concept of \u003ci\u003einstitutio vitae\u003c\/i\u003e originated in Roman law, it was Machiavelli who first conceived of politics as an instituent force. After Spinoza endowed the social imaginary with the capacity to institute relational life, Hegel was the first to view the ‘objective spirit’ as the space in which society and state are structured by institutional dynamics. However, in the Hegelian system, it is the same dialectic – as an infinite process in which ideas materialize in reality – that expresses instituent power. Only by drawing from these modern roots, argues Esposito, can contemporary thought recognize the movement of institutions as the strategic nexus where the languages of philosophy, anthropology, and politics intersect on a new horizon of meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book completes the inquiry that Esposito began with \u003ci\u003eInstituting Thought\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInstitution\u003c\/i\u003e, offering a fresh view of the philosophical tradition from an instituent perspective. 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But this can only happen if it is able to go beyond its own lexical boundaries, by turning its gaze outside itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere the leading Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito looks at how various strands of German, French, and Italian thought have achieved this outward turn and successfully captured international attention by breaking with the language of early nineteenth-century crisis philosophies. When analyzed from this novel perspective, the great texts of Adorno, Derrida, Foucault, and Deleuze, as well as works by the latest Italian thinkers, are cast in a new light. From the relationship and tension between them, reconstructed here with extraordinary theoretical sensitivity, a form of thought can arise that is equal to the challenges faced by Europe today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis erudite and wide-ranging analysis of European thought in the light of the crises facing the continent today will appeal to students and scholars of philosophy, critical theory, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000541495532,"sku":"9781509521067","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12232923482725.jpg?v=1763282833"},{"product_id":"the-faces-of-the-adversary-by-roberto-esposito-9781509567805","title":"The Faces of the Adversary","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Faces of the Adversary\u003c\/em\u003e by Roberto Esposito is a poetic and historically layered book that draws on a famous, and famously opaque, passage from the Old Testament to shed light on the vision of self and domination that has profoundly shaped western identity and left its mark on western culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese ten lines from Genesis tell the tale of Jacob wrestling with a mysterious adversary on a riverbank. But who exactly is Jacob wrestling with – the divine? Evil personified? Absolute otherness? Or his deepest, most subconscious self, repressed and projected? Who, in other words, is the adversary, and what is the enigmatic conflict that binds the two in perpetual conflict?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInterchangeable and yet never resolved, these entwined adversaries speak to our great desire to come face to face with personal truth, even if only for an instant, while coming to terms with its impermanence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCasting a wide net, Esposito connects his reading of Jacob and the Angel to the fundamental relationship between self and adversary inherited by the modern West and explores the extraordinary influence this story has had on western culture, from philosophy and theology to literature, politics and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47306964336876,"sku":"9781509567805","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12700303482725.jpg?v=1771072719"},{"product_id":"common-immunity-by-roberto-esposito-9781509555659","title":"Common Immunity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter two years of global pandemic, it is no surprise that immunisation is now at the centre of our experience. From the medicalisation of politics to the disciplining of individuals, from lockdowns to mass vaccination programmes, contemporary societies seem to be firmly embedded in a syndrome of immunity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo understand the ambivalent effects of this development, it is necessary to go back to its modern genesis, when the languages of law, politics, and medicine began to merge into the biopolitical regime we have been living under for some time. This regime places a high priority on immunisation and security: no security is more important than health security.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Covid-19 pandemic has taken the dynamic of immunisation to a new level: for the first time in history, we see societies seeking to achieve generalised immunity in their entire populations through vaccination. This allows us to glimpse the possibility of a “common immunity” that strengthens the relation between community and immunity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe dramatic tensions we have experienced in recent years between security and freedom, norm and exception, power and existence, all refer to the complex relationship between community and immunity, the decisive features of which are reconstructed in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding on the prescient argument originally developed two decades ago in \u003ci\u003eImmunitas\u003c\/i\u003e, Roberto Esposito demonstrates in this new book how the pandemic and our responses to it have brought into sharp relief the fundamental biopolitical conditions of our contemporary societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423974047980,"sku":"9781509555659","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509555659.jpg?v=1774769543"},{"product_id":"instituting-thought-by-roberto-esposito-9781509546435","title":"Instituting Thought","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new book by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito addresses the profound crisis of contemporary politics and examines some of the philosophical approaches that have been used to try to understand and go beyond this crisis. Two approaches have been particularly influential – one indebted to the thought of Martin Heidegger, the other indebted to Gilles Deleuze. While opposed in their political thrust and orientation, both approaches remain trapped within the political ontology that has framed our conceptual language for some time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn order to move beyond this political ontology, Esposito turns to a third approach that he characterises as ‘instituting thought’. Indebted to the work of the French political philosopher Claude Lefort, this third approach recognises that the road to reconstructing a productive relation between ontology and politics, one that is both realistic and innovative, lies in instituting praxis. Building on this insight, Esposito conceptualises social being as neither univocal nor plurivocal but as cross-cut by the dual semantics of political conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInstituting Thought\u003c\/em\u003e by one of the most original European philosophers writing today will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy, social and political theory and the humanities generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424378601708,"sku":"9781509546435","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509546435.jpg?v=1774768593"},{"product_id":"institution-by-roberto-esposito-9781509551569","title":"Institution","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very moment when the virus was threatening to destroy life, human beings called upon institutions – on governments, on health systems, on new norms of behaviour – to combat the virus and preserve life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on this and other examples, Roberto Esposito argues that institutions and human life are not opposed to one another but rather two sides of a single figure that, together, delineate the vital character of institutions and the instituting power of life. What else is life, after all, if not a continuous institution, a capacity for self-regeneration along new and unexplored paths?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo human life is reducible to pure survival, to \u003cem\u003ebare life\u003c\/em\u003e. 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At the same time, politics seems increasingly impotent in the face of these threats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, the leading Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito reconstructs the genealogy of the reciprocal intertwining of politics and negation. He retraces the intensification of negation in the thought of various thinkers, from Schmitt and Freud to Heidegger, and examines the negative slant of some of our fundamental political categories, such as sovereignty, property and freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst the centrality of negation, Esposito proposes an affirmative philosophy that does not negate or repress negation but radically rethinks it in the positive cipher of difference, determination and opposition. The result is a rigorous and original pathway which, in the tension between affirmation and negation, recognizes the disturbing traumas of our time, as well as the harbingers of what awaits at its limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis highly original and timely book will be of great value to students and scholars in philosophy, cultural theory and the humanities more generally, and to anyone interested in contemporary European thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431998243052,"sku":"9781509536627","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509536627.jpg?v=1774556978"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/roberto-esposito.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}