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Persons and Tings Teory Redux Series editor: Laurent de Sutter Persons and Tings From the Body’s Point of View Roberto Esposito Translated by Zakiya Hanaf polity Copyright © Roberto Esposito 2015 Te right of Roberto Esposito to be identifed as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2015 by Polity Press Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 350 Main Street Malden, MA 02148, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-9064-3 (hardback) ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-9065-0 (paperback) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Esposito, Roberto, 1950- [Persone e le cose. English] Persons and things : from the body’s point of view / Roberto Esposito. pages cm ISBN 978-0-7456-9064-3 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7456-9065-0 (pbk.) 1. Individualism. 2. Persons. 3. Property. 4. Materialism. 5. Human body (Philosophy) I. Title. B824.E8613 2015 110--dc23 Typeset in 12.5 on 15 pt Adobe Garamond by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire Printed and bound in the by Clays Ltd., St Ives PLC Te translation of this work has been funded by SEPS Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifche Via Val d’Aposa 7 - 40123 Bologna - Italy My thanks to Zakiya Hanaf for the linguistic skill, interpretive intelligence, and unparalleled care she has brought to translating this and other books of mine. Contents Introduction page 1 1 Persons 16 Possession 16 Te Great Division 24 Two in One 33 Use and Abuse 41 Non-Persons 49 2 Tings 57 Te Nothing of the Ting 57 Res 65 Words and Tings 74 Te Value of Tings 81 Das Ding 90 vii contents 3 Bodies 9 Te Status of the Body 99 Te Power of the Body 108 To Exist the Body 118 Te Soul of Tings 127 Political Bodies 138 Notes 148 viii
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