عنوان

Third person :

Erroneous ISBN

0745643973

Erroneous ISBN

0745643981 (pbk.)

Erroneous ISBN

9780745643977

Erroneous ISBN

9780745643984 (pbk.)

Number

b510376

Title Proper

Third person :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

politics of life and philosophy of the impersonal /

First Statement of Responsibility

Roberto Esposito ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, UK :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Polity Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

177 p. ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-166) and index

Text of Note

All discourses aimed at asserting the value of human life - whether philosophical, ethical, or political - assume the notion of personhood as their indispensable point of departure. In bioethics, for example, Catholic and secular thinkers may disagree on what constitutes a person, but they certainly agree on its decisive importance: human life is considered to be untouchable only when based on personhood. In the legal sphere the enjoyment of subjective rights is increasingly linked to the qualification of personhood, which appears to be the only one capable of bridging the gap between human being and citizen, right and life, and soul and body. The radical thesis put forward in this book is that the notion of "person" is unable to bridge this gap because it is precisely what creates this breach. Its primary effect is to create a separation in both the human race and the individual between a rational, voluntary part endowed with particular value and a purely biological part, thrust by the first into the inferior dimension of the animal or thing. In opposition to the performative power of the person, whose origins can be traced back to ancient Rome and Christianity, Esposito pursues his strikingly original and innovative philosophical inquiry by inviting reflection on the category of the impersonal: the third person, in removing itself from the exclusionary mechanism of the person, points toward the orginary unity of the living being. Book jacket

Individualism

Persons

Philosophy, Italian

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Esposito, Roberto,1950-

Date of Transaction

20130327152407.0

Electronic name

[Book]

Y