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About the Author
Inna Viriasova is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Acadia University, where she teaches Political Theory. Her current research is in the areas of modern and contemporary political philosophy, critical refugee studies, non-Western political thought, and post-humanist security. She has published articles on questions of freedom, life, biopolitics, community, animism, speculative realism, and human displacement, as well as co-edited a book entitled Roberto Esposito: Biopolitics and Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2018).
Reviews
In this book, Inna Viriasova competently and brightly retraces the most influential theories of the impolitical, connecting them to questions of great relevance: with respect to political action, how does what is outside its external borders act? How does the political 'outside' establish itself and what effects does it produce when it is situated into it? In a substantial philosophical weave intertwining all contemporary thought, the author offers original and innovative answers to these questions. -- Roberto Esposito, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
We begin to see that total politicization, at some point a progressive thought, a secular thought, might well be total imprisonment, total abjuration of freedom. This book opens the philosophy of the future by arguing for the unpolitical as the only possible space of freedom: a non-political freedom not to be confined to religion. But the unpolitical is not just the grand limit of politics: it is primarily the site of life, of an experience of life as the unthought, and of the possibility of a thinking of the unthought as recognition of an originary fissure between thinking and being, against the entire tradition of metaphysics. -- Alberto Moreiras, Texas A&M University
Book Information
ISBN 9781786604569
Author Inna Viriasova
Format Hardback
Page Count 214
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield International
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield International
Weight(grams) 499g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 161mm * 22mm