{"product_id":"institution-by-roberto-esposito-9781509551569","title":"Institution","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very moment when the virus was threatening to destroy life, human beings called upon institutions – on governments, on health systems, on new norms of behaviour – to combat the virus and preserve life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on this and other examples, Roberto Esposito argues that institutions and human life are not opposed to one another but rather two sides of a single figure that, together, delineate the vital character of institutions and the instituting power of life. What else is life, after all, if not a continuous institution, a capacity for self-regeneration along new and unexplored paths?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo human life is reducible to pure survival, to \u003cem\u003ebare life\u003c\/em\u003e. There is always a point at which life reaches out beyond primary needs, entering into the realm of desires and choices, passions and projects, and at that point human life becomes instituted: it becomes part of the web of relations that constitute social, political, and cultural life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424379289836,"sku":"9781509551569","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509551569.jpg?v=1774768593","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/institution-by-roberto-esposito-9781509551569","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}