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Terms of the Political - Community, Immunity, Biopolitics (Hardcover): Roberto Esposito

Terms of the Political - Community, Immunity, Biopolitics (Hardcover)

Roberto Esposito; Translated by Rhiannon Noel Welch; Introduction by Vanessa Lemm

Series: Commonalities

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Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics presents a decade of thought about the origins and possibilities of political theory from one of contemporary Italy's most prolific and engaging political theorists, Roberto Esposito. He has coined a number of critical concepts in current debates about the past, present, and future of biopolitics-from his work on the implications of the etymological and philosophical kinship of community (communitas) and immunity (immunitas) to his theorizations of the impolitical and the impersonal. Taking on interlocutors from throughout the Western philosophical tradition, from Aristotle and Augustine to Weil, Arendt, Nancy, Foucault, and Agamben, Esposito announces the eclipse of a modern political lexicon-"freedom," "democracy," "sovereignty," and "law"-that, in its attempt to protect human life, has so often produced its opposite (violence, melancholy, and death). Terms of the Political calls for the opening of political thought toward a resignification of these and other operative terms-such as "community," "immunity," "biopolitics," and "the impersonal"-in ways that affirm rather than negate life. An invaluable introduction to the breadth and rigor of Esposito's thought, the book will also welcome readers already familiar with Esposito's characteristic skill in overturning and breaking open the language of politics.

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Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Commonalities
Release date: November 2012
First published: November 2012
Authors: Roberto Esposito
Translators: Rhiannon Noel Welch
Introduction by: Vanessa Lemm
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-4264-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
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LSN: 0-8232-4264-1
Barcode: 9780823242641

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