{"product_id":"communitas-roberto-esposito-9780804746472","title":"Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo theme has been more central to international philosophical debates than that of community: from American communitarianism to Habermas's ethic of communication to the French deconstruction of community in the work of Derrida and Nancy. Nevertheless, in none of these cases has the concept been examined from the perspective of community's original etymological meaning: \u003ci\u003ecum munus\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eCommunitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community\u003c\/i\u003e, Roberto Esposito does just that through an original counter-history of political philosophy that takes up not only readings of community by Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Heidegger and Bataille, but also by Hderlin, Nietzsche, Canetti, Arendt, and Sartre. The result of his extraordinary conceptual and lexical analysis is a radical overturning of contemporary interpretations of community. Community isn't a property, nor is it a territory to be separated and defended against those who do not belong to it. Rather, it is a void, a debt, a gift to the other that also reminds us of our constitutive alterity with respect to ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roberto Esposito\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804746478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804746472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2010 pg. 2","brand":"Roberto Esposito","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046351466751,"sku":"9780804746472","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_33c8a8c8-ca60-4851-bec9-a7e6b024e6e5.jpg?v=1684984064","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/communitas-roberto-esposito-9780804746472","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}