{"product_id":"terms-of-the-political-roberto-esposito-9780823242641","title":"Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics","description":"\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. \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roberto Esposito\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823242641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823242641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Roberto Esposito","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120358486271,"sku":"9780823242641","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c1e873b-1314-439c-8709-e528d6ecaae4.jpg?v=1687413901","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/terms-of-the-political-roberto-esposito-9780823242641","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}