On Political Impasse

Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He specialises in social and political philosophy and is the author of numerous articles, edited volumes, and books, including Lived Experience from the Inside Out: Social and Political Philosophy in Edith Stein, Badiou and Derrida: Politics, Events and Their Time (2007); The Philosophy of Edith Stein (2007), and Giordano Bruno and the Logic of Coincidence (1998).

• Preface1. Introduction2. Deeper Conditions of the Contemporary Impasse: The Fatigue of Forms of Change and the Rise of a New Form of Political Impasse3. Badiou, Foucault, Deleuze, and Esposito: In-Between the Ruler-Ruled Relation of Political Power?4. Alain Badiou on the Event and the Possibility and Impossibility of Impasse5. Foucault, Resistance, Subjectivation and the Overcoming of a Temporary Impasse6. Gilles Deleuze and the Impasse of the Societies of Control7. Roberto Esposito, Impasse, and the Immunological Paradigm of Political Life8. Resistance in Immunity: Life, Person and the Impersonal9. As Long as There is Life, There is Hope and The Possibility of Resistance?10. Possibility in the New Political Impasse11. Recovery of a Zone of Selfhood that is Our Own: Oikeiosis12. The Emergence of World, The Inner, and Auto-Affection13. The Manifestation of a World14. Auto-Affection: The Opening onto the Inner Life15. Self-Becoming: To Feel and Live Oneself Anew?16. Thinking17. How Does Thinking Affect Political Impasse?18. Imagination19. Judgement20. Willing21. Newness and the Inner Turn Communifying Possibility and Hope22. Dilating the Time of Impasse From Within23. The Possible Present: A Threshold24. The Time of Being-Held in Being and the Giving of TimeConclusionBibliographyIndex

Written with great lucidity and insight, Political Impasse considers the question of political power and resistance in our era of uncertainty and domination in order to propose creative possibilities of endurance and hope.