Terms of the political : community, immunity, biopolitics
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2012
- 152 p. ; 23 cm
- Commonalities .
Includes bibliographical references. Translated from Italian.
Terms of the Political 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 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
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Biopolitics Totalitarianism Nazism Community Immunitary Democracy Violence