Category Archives: Roberto Esposito

Laura Cremonesi, Rita Fulco and Valentina Surace (eds.), Political Ontology, Community and Institutions – SUNY Press, May 2025

Posted on June 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Laura Cremonesi, Rita Fulco and Valentina Surace (eds.), Political Ontology, Community and Institutions – SUNY Press, May 2025 Focuses on key aspects of Robert Esposito’s thought and explores the ways in which some major contemporary thinkers have been crucial interlocutors … Continue reading →

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Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa (eds.), Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century – MIT Press, March 2024

Posted on November 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa (eds.), Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century – MIT Press, March 2024 A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century. Contemporanea is a nascent lexicon for … Continue reading →

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Books received – Newman, Lacan, Chartier, Calvet, Esposito, Boquet and Nacy

Posted on April 24, 2019 by stuartelden

Some books received in recompense for review work for Polity – Saul Newman, Political Theology; Jacques Lacan, The Sinthome; Roger Chartier, Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare; Louis-Jean Calvet’s biography of Roland Barthes; Roberto Esposito, A Philosophy for Europe; and Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy, Medieval Sensibilities.

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Books received – Fordham University Press and Steven Seegel, Map Men

Posted on July 20, 2018 by stuartelden

A pile of books from Fordham University Press in recompense for review work, and Steven Seegel, Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe, sent by University of Chicago Press. The Fordham books are … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Karl Marx, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roberto Esposito, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Roberto Esposito, The Origin of the Political: Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?reviewed at Berfrois by Gerardo Muñoz

Posted on March 28, 2017 by stuartelden

Roberto Esposito, The Origin of the Political: Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil? is reviewed at Berfrois by Gerardo Muñoz

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Academic Books of 2015 – my top twenty

Posted on December 31, 2015 by stuartelden

The vast majority of academic reading in 2015 was related to Foucault, with a lot of Shakespeare work along the way. Many of these were published some time ago. These were the twenty books published in 2015 I read and most … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, David Farrell Krell, Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Haim Yacobi, Jacques Derrida, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Jenny Edkins, Judith Butler, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Publishing, Roberto Esposito, Theory, Wendy Brown, William Shakespeare | 13 Comments

Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Cisney and Morar

Posted on December 9, 2015 by stuartelden

A new collection now out – Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar. Contains essays by Revel, Negri, Patton, Mills, Hacking, Mendieta, Stoler, Rabinow, Rose, Esposito… Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a … Continue reading →

Posted in Ann Laura Stoler, Antonio Negri, Eduardo Mendieta, Ian Hacking, Michel Foucault, Roberto Esposito, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Roberto Esposito. ‘Biological Life, Political Life’, Goldsmiths, University of London, 1 Oct 2015 5pm

Posted on September 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Roberto Esposito lecture, ‘Biological Life, Political Life‘ at Goldsmiths, University of London, 1 Oct 2015 5pm.

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Roberto Esposito, Persons and Things: From the Body’s Point of View

Posted on May 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Roberto Esposito, Persons and Things: From the Body’s Point of View, now out from Polity. 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 … Continue reading →

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Books received – Fourquet, Barret-Kriegel, Esposito, de Vries, de Beistegui & Sparks, Magnussen

Posted on November 26, 2014 by stuartelden

A few books in recompense for review work – de Vries, Re-imaging a Politics of Life; the Philosophy and Tragedy collection; Magnusson’s Politics of Urbanism. Two books by two of Foucault’s collaborators – François Fourquet, Les comptes de la puissance and … Continue reading →

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