PERSONS AND THINGS: FROM THE BODY’ S POINT OF VIEW (ITALIAN TITLE: LE PERSONE E LE COSE)
Book ID/图书代码： 04851515B77784
English Summary/英文概要： What is the relationship between persons and things? And howdoes the body transform this relationship? In this highly originalnew book, Roberto Esposito – one of Italy s leading politicalphilosophers – considers these questions and shows that startingfrom the body, rather than from the thing or the person, can helpus to reconsider the status of both.
Ever since its beginnings, our civilization has been based on astrict, unequivocal distinction between persons and things, foundedon the instrumental domination of persons over things. Thisopposition arose out of ancient Roman law and persisted throughoutmodernity, to take its place in our current global market, where itcontinues to generate growing contradictions. Although thedistinction seems to appear clear and necessary to us, what we arecontinually witnessing in legal, economic, and technologicalpractice is a reversal of perspectives: some categories of personsare becoming assimilated with things, while some types of thingsare taking on a personal profile.
With his customary rigour, Roberto Esposito argues that thereexists an escape route out of this paradox, constituted by a newpoint of view founded in the body. Neither a person nor a thing,the human body becomes the decisive element in rethinking theconcepts and values that govern our philosophical, legal, andpolitical lexicons.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人与物的关系是什么？身体如何改变这种关系？在这本极具原创性的新书中，意大利主要的政治哲学家之一罗伯托•埃斯波西托考虑了这些问题，并表明从身体开始，而不是从事物或人开始，可以帮助我们重新考虑两者的地位。
人类文明自诞生之日起，就建立在人对事物的工具性支配的基础上，对人与物的严格、明确的区分。这种反对产生于古罗马法，并持续到现代，以取代我们目前的全球市场，在那里它继续产生越来越多的矛盾。虽然这种区别似乎对我们来说是明确和必要的，但我们在法律、经济和技术实践中不断看到的是一种观点的逆转：一些类别的人正在被事物所同化，而某些类型的事物则呈现出个人特征。
罗伯托•埃斯波西托以其一贯的严谨性，认为存在着一条摆脱这一悖论的出路，它是由建立在身体中的新观点构成的。无论是人还是物，人体都成为重新思考支配我们哲学、法律和政治词汇的观念和价值观的决定性因素。（WYL)
Awards/获奖情况：“在这本新书中，哲学家罗伯托•埃斯波西托继续阐述了以第三人称开头的人称决定论，并将他的注意力转向了人与物之间经常出现的问题关系。其结果不仅是对人和事物的语义的奇妙解读，同时也是一种邀请，让我们思考人的身体。作为一种可能的回应跨越政治哲学和法律的领域，《人与物》一书为读者提供了令人眼花缭乱的视角，让他们了解物和人。简单地说，这是一本出色的书。”——蒂莫西•坎贝尔，康奈尔大学
Continuing his elaboration of the dispositive of person firstset out in Third Person, philosopher Roberto Esposito turns hisattention in this new book to the often troubled relation betweenhuman being and thing. The result is not only a wondrous reading ofthe semantics of the person and thing. but also an invitation toconsider ?the living body? of multitudes as a possible response.Working across the fields of political philosophy and law, Personsand Things offers the reader dazzling perspectives on person asthing and thing as person. This, quite simply, is a brilliantbook.
Timothy Campbell, Cornell University
About the Author/作者介绍： 罗伯托•埃斯波西托是那不勒斯大学政治思想史教授。
Roberto Esposito is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Naples.
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