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

Continuing his elaboration of the dispositive of person first set out in Third Person, philosopher Roberto Esposito turns his attention in this new book to the often troubled relation between human being and thing. The result is not only a wondrous reading of the semantics of the person and thing. but also an invitation to consider ?the living body? of multitudes as a possible response. Working across the fields of political philosophy and law, Persons and Things offers the reader dazzling perspectives on person as thing and thing as person. This, quite simply, is a brilliant book.Timothy Campbell, Cornell University

• IntroductionI. PersonsPossessionThe Great DivisionTwo in OneUse and AbuseNon-personsII. ThingsThe Nothing of the ThingResWords and ThingsThe Value of ThingsDas DingIII. BodiesThe Status of the BodyThe Power of the BodyTo Exist the BodyThe Soul of ThingsPolitical Bodies

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

Continuing his elaboration of the dispositive of person first set out in Third Person, philosopher Roberto Esposito turns his attention in this new book to the often troubled relation between human being and thing. The result is not only a wondrous reading of the semantics of the person and thing. but also an invitation to consider ?the living body? of multitudes as a possible response. Working across the fields of political philosophy and law, Persons and Things offers the reader dazzling perspectives on person as thing and thing as person. This, quite simply, is a brilliant book.Timothy Campbell, Cornell University

• IntroductionI. PersonsPossessionThe Great DivisionTwo in OneUse and AbuseNon-personsII. ThingsThe Nothing of the ThingResWords and ThingsThe Value of ThingsDas DingIII. BodiesThe Status of the BodyThe Power of the BodyTo Exist the BodyThe Soul of ThingsPolitical Bodies