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Author:   Greg Bird
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781438461854

ISBN 10:   1438461852
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   01 October 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Political Economy and the Proper I. The Proprietary Confusion II. The Dialectic of Alienation and Appropriation III. Dis-Containing Community 2. Ontology and the Proper I. The Proper II. The Ereignis III. Interpreting the Ereignis 3. The Existential Community PART 1. THE 1980S I. The Political II. The Existential Community, Take One PART 2. THE 1990S III. Communism and a Deconstructed Phenomenology IV. The Existential Community, Take Two PART 3. THE 2000S V. Globalization VI. Existential Democracy 4. The Community Without Content PART 1. EARLY PHILOSOPHICAL CONCERNS I. Language and Absolution II. Impotentiality and Inoperativeness PART 2. THE COMING COMMUNITY III. Depoliticization IV. Ontological Ethos V. Whatever PART 3. THE HOMO SACER SERIES VI. Economic Theology and Political Economy VII. Language and Ethics VIII. Priests and Monks IX. Destituent Power 5. The Deontological Community PART 1. COMMUNITAS I. Deontology II. Ontology PART 2. COMMUNITY AFTER COMMUNITAS III. Communitas and Immunitas IV. Communitarianism V. Radical Republicanism Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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""In this book, Greg Bird identifies and radically conceptualizes being-with as the problematic node that connects thinkers who in other respects are quite diverse such as Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy. His interpretation, acute and rigorous, illuminates in an admirable fashion a decisive passage of contemporary thought."" - Roberto Esposito, author of Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community ""In this exceptional book, Greg Bird offers for the first time in English a rigorous account of the common philosophical origins of Nancy, Agamben and Esposito's work on community. By emphasizing the centrality of the proper in the ontology of being in common and tracing it back to Heidegger, Bird places Nancy, Agamben, and Esposito at the center of contemporary economico-political philosophical debates."" - Maria del Rosario Acosta Lopez, DePaul University In Containing Community Greg Bird asks how we might imagine community in such a way that 'being' and not 'having' comes to the fore. His answer, contained across some truly marvelous readings of Proudhon, Marx, Heidegger, and then Nancy, Agamben, and Esposito surprises and delights especially for his take-down of the proprietary prejudice featured so frequently in how we conceive of community. It also happens to be one of the best books to appear in recent memory on Italian thought."" - Timothy C. Campbell, Cornell University

In this book, Greg Bird identifies and radically conceptualizes being-with as the problematic node that connects thinkers who in other respects are quite diverse such as Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy. His interpretation, acute and rigorous, illuminates in an admirable fashion a decisive passage of contemporary thought. - Roberto Esposito, author of Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community In this exceptional book, Greg Bird offers for the first time in English a rigorous account of the common philosophical origins of Nancy, Agamben and Esposito's work on community. By emphasizing the centrality of the proper in the ontology of being in common and tracing it back to Heidegger, Bird places Nancy, Agamben, and Esposito at the center of contemporary economico-political philosophical debates. - Maria del Rosario Acosta Lopez, DePaul University In Containing Community Greg Bird asks how we might imagine community in such a way that 'being' and not 'having' comes to the fore. His answer, contained across some truly marvelous readings of Proudhon, Marx, Heidegger, and then Nancy, Agamben, and Esposito surprises and delights especially for his take-down of the proprietary prejudice featured so frequently in how we conceive of community. It also happens to be one of the best books to appear in recent memory on Italian thought. - Timothy C. Campbell, Cornell University

Author Information

Greg Bird is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and the coeditor (with Jonathan Short) of Community, Immunity and the Proper: Roberto Esposito.

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