Greg Bird

Containing Community (eBook, ePUB)

From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2017 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy

Community has been both celebrated and demonized as a fortress that shelters and defends its members from being exposed to difference. Instead of abandoning community as an antiquated model of relationships that is ill suited for our globalized world, this book turns to the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and Jean-Luc Nancy in search for ways to rethink community in an open and inclusive manner. Greg Bird argues that a central piece of this task is found in how each philosopher rearticulates community not as something that is proper to those who belong and improper to those who are excluded or where inclusion is based on one's share in common property. We must return to the forgotten dimension of sharing, not as a sharing of things that we can contain and own, but as a process that divides us up and shares us out in community with one another. This book traces this problem through a wide array of fields ranging from biopolitics, communitarianism, existentialism, phenomenology, political economy, radical philosophy, and social theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438461878
• Artikelnr.: 60491917

Autorenporträt

Greg Bird is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and the coeditor (with Jonathan Short) of Community, Immunity and the Proper: Roberto Esposito.