This book by Roberto Esposito - a leading Italian political philosopher - is a highly original exploration of the relationship between human bodies and societies. The original function of law, even before it was codified, was to preserve peaceful cohabitation between people who were exposed to the risk of destructive conflict. Just as the human body's immune system protects the...(展开全部)

A comprehensive account of denial viewed not only psychoanalytically but also philosophically.

Venue du droit, la notion d’immunité occupe une place centrale en médecine. Tout comme le système immunitaire du corps humain protège l’organisme contre les incursions mortelles de virus, la loi garantit la survie de la communauté dans une situation la mettant en péril. Le droit protège et prolonge la vie. Mais comme le corps individuel, le corps collectif ne peut être immunisé...(展开全部)

Roberto Esposito is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Naples.

This book by Roberto Esposito - a leading Italian political philosopher - is a highly original exploration of the relationship between human bodies and societies. The original function of law, even before it was codified, was to preserve peaceful cohabitation between people who were exposed to the risk of destructive conflict. Just as the human body's immune system protects the...(展开全部)

基尔特·洛文克（Geert Lovink），欧洲前卫批判的网络文化批评家，从占屋运动开始迈向激进网络文化的实验，是荷兰网络文化中心的创始主任，荷兰与澳大利亚的媒体理论家、评论者与行动者。他在2003年于墨尔本大学获得博士学位，加入昆士兰大学批判与文化研究中心。2004年被任命为阿姆斯特丹应用科技大学的研究教授及阿姆斯特丹大学的助理教授。他发起网络时钟(nettime)、光纤文化(fibreculture)等网络计划。出版的书籍包括《暗光纤》（Dark Fibre, 2002）、《怪而熟悉的网络》（Uncanny Networks,2002）、《我的第一次经济衰退》（My First Recession, 2003）、《零评论》（Zero Comments, 2007）、《没有原因的网络：对社交媒体的批评》（Networks Without a Cau...(展开全部)

The teacher probes the Western problems of conformity and loss of personal values while offering a fresh approach to self-understanding and the meaning of personal freedom and mature love.

In the grand tradition of Paul Kennedy s The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers comes this provocative history of world democracy, which begins with the ancient Myceans and ends in our fractious present. Overturning long-cherished notions, John Keane poses challenging questions: Did democracy actually begin in ancient Greece or earlier in Mesopotamia? Do the American and British...(展开全部)