The Body between politcs and technique

Lecture by Roberto Esposito

The lecture will focus on the concept of the body as a crossing point between the person and the thing. Provided with an originary technical nature, the body breaks the traditional binary scheme because it is “cosalizzabile”, (translator’s note: it can become an object) for example with biotechnologies or working processes, which make it an intermediary device rather than a monad.

Roberto Esposito is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Through the critical analysis of the political categories developed by modern philosophers’ thought (in particular the concepts of the individual, the person and the community), Roberto Esposito’s research highlighted the limits of contemporary politics, which as an organization must confront with the irreducible character of the living object. Among the other books he published: Dieci pensieri sulla politica (Bologna 2011); Dall’impolitico all’impersonale. Conversazioni filosofiche (con M. Saidel, G.V. Arias, Milano 2012); Due. La macchina della teologia politica e il posto del pensiero (Torino 2013); Le persone e le cose (Torino 2014); L’origine della politica. Hannah Arendt o Simone Weil? (Roma 2014); Da fuori. Una filosofia per l’Europa (Torino 2016); Politica e negazione. Per una filosofia affermativa (Torino 2018).

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