{"product_id":"terms-of-the-political-community-immunity-biopolitics-hardcover","title":"Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoberto Esposito\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRhiannon Noel Welch\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eVanessa Lemm\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoberto Esposito is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. His many books in English include \u003ci\u003eBios: Biopolitics and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTwo: The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought \u003c\/i\u003e(Fordham). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRhiannon Noel Welch teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is completing a book on race and biopolitics in post-unification Italy titled \u003ci\u003eVital Subjects: Race, (Re)productivity and Italian Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450071695538,"sku":"9780823242641","price":167.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/OG5LigryM59780823242641.webp?v=1783116081","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/terms-of-the-political-community-immunity-biopolitics-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}