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  • CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana

    by Paolo Jedlowski, Roberto De Gaetano, Jacques Rancière, Roberto Esposito, Slavoj Žižek, Paul Schrader, Werner Herzog, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian, Julio Bressane, Marie, Jean, Francesco Casetti, Mario Martone, Francesco Ceraolo, Luc Nancy, Louis Comolli, Georges Didi, Huberman, Raoul Ruiz, David Freedberg, Marco Bellocchio, Julia Kristeva, Edgar Reitz, José Mondzain, Walter Siti, Toni Servillo, Richard Schechner, Shinya Tsukamoto, Amos Gitai ...
    24 conversazioni apparse su Fata Morgana con grandi figure della contemporaneità, studiosi e artisti che parlano del cinema facendone un luogo del pensiero e una forma di vita. Un viaggio in cui il cinema e l’immagine, più di ogni altra forma d’arte, si riscoprono indissolubilmente legati alla complessità del nostro presente. Per la prima volta riunite e tradotte in inglese in un’unica ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conversations on Cinema

    by De Gaetano Roberto, Slavoj Žižek, Paul Schrader, Paolo Jedlowski, Werner Herzog, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Louis Comolli, Julio Bressane, Jacques Rancière, Jean-Luc Nancy, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian, Georges Didi-Huberman ...
    Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would speak for itself. However, the time has come to say a few words. A journal is first and foremost ... Read more

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  • Immunitas

    The Protection and Negation of Life

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    This book by Roberto Esposito - a leading Italian political philosopher - is a highly original exploration of the relationship between human bodies and societies. The original function of law, even before it was codified, was to preserve peaceful cohabitation between people who were exposed to the risk of destructive conflict. Just as the human body's immune system protects the organism from ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Faces of the Adversary

    The Enigma of Jacob and the Angel

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanati ...
    Roberto Esposito's poetic and historically layered new book draws on a famous, and famously opaque, passage from the Old Testament to shed light on the vision of self and domination that has profoundly shaped western identity and left its mark on western culture.These ten lines from Genesis tell the tale of Jacob wrestling with a mysterious adversary on a riverbank. But who exactly is Jacob ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Vitam Instituere

    A Genealogy of the Institution

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    In this book, Roberto Esposito continues his philosophical exploration of the relation between institutions and human life. Starting from the enigmatic Latin term vitam instituere, he charts its early emergence in modern philosophy and its development along a path that culminates in a novel understanding of the relationship between politics and life.Although the concept of institutio vitae ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Politics and Negation

    For an Affirmative Philosophy

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    For some while we have been witnessing a series of destructive phenomena which seem to indicate a full-fledged return to the negative on the world stage – from terrorism and armed conflict to the threat of environmental catastrophe. At the same time, politics seems increasingly impotent in the face of these threats.In this book, the leading Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito reconstructs the ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Persons and Things

    From the Body's Point of View

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    What is the relationship between persons and things? And how does the body transform this relationship? In this highly original new book, Roberto Esposito - one of Italy’s leading political philosophers - considers these questions and shows that starting from the body, rather than from the thing or the person, can help us to reconsider the status of both.Ever since its beginnings, our civilization ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • The Origin of the Political

    Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Translated by Vincenzo Binetti, Gareth Williams ...
    Series series Commonalities
    In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer’s Iliad—that “great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by being observed by others”— as the common origin and point of departure for our understanding of Western ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Critical Theory at a Crossroads

    Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis

    by Tariq Ali, Zygmunt Bauman, Rosi Braidotti, Wendy Brown, Roberto Esposito, Maurizio Lazzarato, Angela McRobbie, Jean-Luc Nancy, Antonio Negri, Jacques Rancière, Saskia Sassen, Joseph Vogl ...
    We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Common Immunity

    Biopolitics in the Age of the Pandemic

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    After two years of global pandemic, it is no surprise that immunization is now at the center of our experience. From the medicalization of politics to the disciplining of individuals, from lockdowns to mass vaccination programs, contemporary societies seem to be firmly embedded in a syndrome of immunity.To understand the ambivalent effects of this development, it is necessary to go back to its ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Institution

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very moment when the virus was threatening to destroy life, human beings called upon institutions – on governments, on health systems, on new norms of behavior – to combat the virus and preserve life. Drawing on this and other examples, Roberto Esposito argues that institutions and ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Instituting Thought

    Three Paradigms of Political Ontology

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Translated by Mark Epstein ...
    This new book by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito addresses the profound crisis of contemporary politics and examines some of the philosophical approaches that have been used to try to understand and go beyond this crisis. Two approaches have been particularly influential – one indebted to the thought of Martin Heidegger, the other indebted to Gilles Deleuze. While opposed in their ... Read more

    $20.00 USD