Institution Institution

Institution

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Descripción editorial

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 human life are not opposed to one another but rather two sides of a single figure that, together, delineate the vital character of institutions and the instituting power of life. What else is life, after all, if not a continuous institution, a capacity for self-regeneration along new and unexplored paths? No human life is reducible to pure survival, to “bare life.”  There is always a point at which life reaches out beyond primary needs, entering into the realm of desires and choices, passions and projects, and at that point human life becomes instituted: it becomes part of the web of relations that constitute social, political, and cultural life.

GÉNERO
No ficción
PUBLICADO
2022
24 de mayo
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
160
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Polity Press
VENDEDOR
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
TAMAÑO
407.8
KB

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