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" Third person : "
Roberto Esposito ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi
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BL
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688187
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b510376
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| Main Entry
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Esposito, Roberto,1950-
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Third person : : politics of life and philosophy of the impersonal /\ Roberto Esposito ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi
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Cambridge, UK :: Polity Press,, 2012
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177 p. ;; 23 cm
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0745643973
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0745643981 (pbk.)
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9780745643977
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9780745643984 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-166) and index
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| Abstract
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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
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Individualism
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Persons
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Philosophy, Italian
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195
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B824E8713 2012
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