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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The translation of Italian philosopher Davide Tarizzo’s Life is a cause for celebration. Tarizzo goes where others haven’t in order to ask the following question: when did we actually become alive? His answer is deeply unsettling. Part political philosophy, part genealogy of aliveness, part faithfully radical account of Darwinian evolution, Tarizzo has written a vertiginous reflection on what it truly means to be ‘savagely’ alive—in other words, biopolitics 2.0. Not to be missed."—Timothy Campbell, Cornell University
"In this outstanding book, the biological paradigm of modern life is traced back, probably for the first time, to its philosophical and metaphysical sources. By connecting Darwin's dangerous idea with those of Kant's and Schelling's, Davide Tarizzo raises the most challenging questions about our future of living beings."—Roberto Esposito, author of Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: A Savage Ontology
1. Modernity: The Threshold of Autonomy
2. Life: Genesis of a Metaphysical Paradigm
3. Us: On the Use and Abuse of Life for History
Translator’s Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
