Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics

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Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics is a philosophical work by Roberto Esposito that explores how concepts of community and immunity shape modern political life and biopolitical power.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf non-fiction book
philosophical work
political philosophy book
addresses the ambivalence of protection and exclusion
the foundations of political community
the relation between life, law, and politics
the risks of excessive immunization in politics
aimsTo rethink the meaning of the political through community and immunity
author Roberto Esposito
contributor Timothy Campbell
countryOfPublication United States
explores how concepts of community shape modern political life
how concepts of immunity shape modern political life
the logic of biopolitical power
the relationship between community and immunity
field philosophy of law
political theory
social philosophy
genre continental philosophy
hasKeyConcept biopolitics as management of life
community as exposure to others
immunity as protection from others
immunization as a political paradigm
tension between community and immunity
the political as a field of life and death decisions
influencedBy Carl Schmitt
Hannah Arendt
Martin Heidegger
Michel Foucault
languageOfTranslation English
mainSubject biopolitical power
biopolitics
community
immunity
modern political theory
political philosophy
originalLanguage Italian
partOf Esposito’s biopolitics project
philosophicalDiscipline philosophy of the body
political ontology
philosophicalTradition Italian political philosophy
biopolitical theory
publisher Fordham University Press
relatedWork Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy
Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community
Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life
targetAudience scholars of political theory
students of contemporary philosophy
translatedBy Timothy Campbell

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Roberto Esposito notableWork Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics
Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community partOf Roberto Esposito’s community–immunity trilogy
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