Roberto Esposito: New Directions in Biophilosophy - Paperback

by Tilottama Rajan (Editor), Antonio Calcagno (Editor)

This collection invites readers to reposition Esposito's thought and explore the interdisciplinarity and unique methodology of his whole corpus. It addresses Esposito's long-standing engagement with early modern philosophy, philosophy of biology, biopolitics, and the impolitical and the impersonal, together with his significant dialogues with contemporary philosophers like Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Simone Weil, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot. A new essay by Esposito himself reveals the importance of philosophical sources and ideas that condition his thinking, especially outside and beyond the dominant biopolitical interpretative framework that has come to mark his reception in the English-speaking world.

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'A compelling collection of essays that attests to the extraordinary versatility of Roberto Esposito's thought, and the generosity of his engagement with other thinkers. Attentive to his diagonal and dialogic philosophical approach, the authors in this volume provide a welcome and stimulating expansion of current Esposito scholarship.' Diane Enns, Ryerson University Essays by internationally recognised scholars on central themes and questions in Roberto Esposito's thought This collection addresses Esposito's long-standing engagement with early modern philosophy, philosophy of biology, biopolitics, the impolitical and the impersonal as well as significant dialogues with contemporary philosophers like Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Simone Weil, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot. A new essay by Esposito himself reveals the importance of philosophical sources and ideas that condition his thinking, especially outside and beyond the dominant biopolitical interpretative framework that has come to mark his reception in the English-speaking world. Readers are invited to reposition Esposito's thought and explore the interdisciplinarity and unique methodology of his whole corpus. Tilottama Rajan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canada Research Chair and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario where she teaches in English and at the Centre for Theory and Criticism. Antonio Calcagno is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario. He also teaches at the Centre for Theory and Criticism. Cover image: Ophiodea-Schlangensterne from Kunstformen der Natur (1904) by Ernst Haeckel. Original from Library of Congress. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel Cover design: riverdesignbooks.com ISBN 978-1-4744-8033-8 Barcode

Author Biography

Tilottama Rajan is Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in English and Theory and a former Director of the Centre for Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Dark Interpreter: the Discourse of Romanticism (Cornell University Press, 1980), The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice (Cornell University Press, 1990), Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard (Stanford UP, 2002) and Romantic Narrative (Johns Hopkins, 2010). She has also edited or coedited eight books, most recently William Blake: Modernity and Disaster (University of Toronto Press, 2020).

Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Lived Experience from the Inside Out: Social and Political Philosophy in Edith Stein (Duquesne University Press, 2014), Badiou and Derrida: Politics, Events and Their Time (Continuum, 2007), The Philosophy of Edith Stein (Duquesne University Press, 2007) and Giordano Bruno and the Logic of Coincidence (Peter Lang, 1998).