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The Third Person
Author: Esposito Roberto
Language: EnglishSubject for The Third Person:
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Publication date: 07-2012
200 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 07-2012
200 p. · 15.5x23.4 cm · Hardback
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The radical and alarming 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 another, purely biological part that is thrust by the first into the inferior dimension of the animal or the thing. In opposition to the performative power of the person, whose dual 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.
Introduction
i. The double life (The machine of the human sciences)
ii. Person, man, thing
iii. Third person
1. Non-person
2. The animal
3. The Other (Autrui)
4. He/She
5. The neuter
6. The outside
7. The event
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