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Roberto Esposito - The Third Person - 9780745643984 - V9780745643984
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The Third Person

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Description for The Third Person Paperback. * Roberto Esposito is one of leading figures in a new generation of Italian philosophers. * This book criticizes the notion of the person and develops an original account of the concept of the impersonal - what he calls the third person. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
All discourses aimed at asserting the value of human life as such—whether philosophical, ethical, or political—assume the notion of personhood as their indispensable point of departure. This is all the more true today. In bioethics, for example, Catholic and secular thinkers may disagree on what constitutes a person and its genesis, but they certainly agree on its decisive importance: human life is considered to be untouchable only when based on personhood. In the legal sphere as well the enjoyment of subjective rights continues to be increasingly linked to the qualification of personhood, which appears to be the only one capable ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
293g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745643984
SKU
V9780745643984
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99-50

About Roberto Esposito
Roberto Esposito is professor of theoretical philosophy at the Italian Institute of Human Sciences in Naples and Florence.

Reviews for The Third Person
'Third Person recasts the nebulous history of biopolitics with insight and ingenuity. Weaving together the biological, anthropological, linguistic and philosophic filaments of its genesis, Esposito finds that both liberal traditions of personalism and the catastrophic biopolitics of the twentieth-century share a common focus in the centrality of personhood.' Evening Haze "In this slim and powerful volume, Roberto Esposito not ... Read more

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