{"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\u003cem\u003eTerms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics\u003c\/em\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). \u003cem\u003eTerms of the Political \u003c\/em\u003ecalls for the opening of political thought toward a resignification of these and other operative terms-such as community, immunity, biopolitics, and the \u003cbr\u003eimpersonal-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoberto Espositoe \u003c\/strong\u003eteaches contemporary philosophy at the Italian Institute for the Human Sciences in Naples. His books translated into English include \u003cem\u003eBios: Biopolitics and Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eCommunitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community\u003c\/em\u003e; and\u003cem\u003e Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRhiannon Noel Welch\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eVital Subjects: Race, (Re)productivity and Italian Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVanessa Lemm \u003c\/strong\u003eis Full Professor in Philosophy at the School of Humanities of the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She is also full professor and recurrent visiting professor at the Institute of Humanities at the Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. Last year she taught as a DAAD guest professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She is the author of Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy: Culture, \u003cbr\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":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715301241139,"sku":"9780823242641","price":172.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dEpHV1c5ZjBHUFNibGV1YzlKRTZRZz09.webp?v=1763600385","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/terms-of-the-political-community-immunity-biopolitics-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}