Roberto Esposito Libri

In questo testo il concetto di comunità è stato osservato a partire dal suo originario significato etimologico: cum munus attraverso una originale"controstoria" della filosofia politica. Il risultato di questo intreccio concettuale e lessicale è un capovilgimento radicale delle attuali interpretazioni della comunità ... essa non è una proprietà, un pieno, un territorio da difendere e separare rispetto a coloro che ne fanno parte, ma un vuoto, un debito, un dono (i significati di munus) nei confronti degli altri, che ci richiama nello stesso tempo alla nostra costitutiva alterità anche da noi stessi

Pojęcia polityczne. Wspólnota, immunizacja, biopolityka to zbiór esejów prezentujących dziesięcioletni namysł Roberta Esposita nad najważniejszymi terminami z zakresu filozofii politycznej. Zamiast słownikowych definicji, autor proponuje genealogiczne przedsięwzięcie, ukazujące splot sensów kryjących się za pozornie oczywistymi znaczeniami przypisywanymi dziś prawu, wolności czy naturze ludzkiej. Trzy zawarte w podtytule książki pojęcia: wspólnota, immunizacja i biopolityka determinują zdaniem Włocha rozumienie wszystkich pozostałych, wyznaczając podstawowe spory i napięcia, które przecinają całą tradycję filozoficzną i ustanawiają w niej zasadnicze linie podziałów. Taka perspektywa sprawia, że z pozoru różnorodne wydarzenia, jak rozprzestrzeniające się po świecie epidemie, spór o ekstradycję głowy państwa, walka z nielegalną imigracją, a nawet przymus korzystania z programów antywirusowych, zyskują jedną spójną ramę interpretacyjną. Dzięki nieograniczonej formalnie strukturze wywodu na kartach książki sąsiadują ze sobą nie tylko analizy wielkich myślicieli – Hobbesa, Kanta, Nietzschego, Heideggera i Foucaulta, ale również poezja Osipa Mandelsztama i René Chara

"The notion of the "impolitical" developed in this volume draws its meaning from the exhaustion of modernity's political categories, which have become incapable of giving voice to any genuinely radical perspective. The impolitical is not the opposite of the political but rather its outer limit: the border from which we might glimpse a trajectory away from all forms of political theology and the depoliticizing tendencies of a completed modernity. The book's reconstruction of the impolitical lineage-which is anything but uniform-begins with the extreme conclusions reached by Carl Schmitt and Romano Guardini in their reflections on the political and then moves through a series of encounters between several great twentieth-century texts: from Hannah Arendt's On Revolution to Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil, to Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power; from Simone Weil's The Need for Roots to Georges Bataille's Sovereignty to Ernst Junger's An der Zeitmauer. The trail forged by this analysis offers a defiant counterpoint to the modern political lexicon, but at the same time a contribution to our understanding of its categories" Provided by publisher

Exploring the historical foundations of political theology, this book examines the interplay between Roman and Christian ideas about the individual, highlighting how these concepts create exclusionary dynamics that unify by division. It advocates for a shift towards a more impersonal and universally accessible understanding of thought, offering a path to dismantle the oppressive frameworks that have emerged from these traditions.

This book by Roberto Esposito - one of Italy's leading political philosophers - is a highly original exploration of the relationship between human bodies and societies. Starting from a reflection on the nature of immunization, Esposito offers a wide-ranging analysis of contemporary biopolitics.

The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very moment when the virus was threatening to destroy life, human beings called upon institutions - on governments, on health systems, on new norms of behavior - to combat the virus and preserve life. Drawing on this and other examples, Roberto Esposito argues that institutions and human life are not opposed to one another but rather two sides of a single figure that, together, delineate the vital character of institutions and the instituting power of life. What else is life, after all, if not a continuous institution, a capacity for self-regeneration along new and unexplored paths? No human life is reducible to pure survival, to "bare life." There is always a point at which life reaches out beyond primary needs, entering into the realm of desires and choices, passions and projects, and at that point human life becomes instituted: it becomes part of the web of relations that constitute social, political, and cultural life.

This book, itself by a major Italian philosopher, explores the distinctive traits of Italian theory and philosophy, reflecting on why it has been growing in popularity and why people have turned to it for answers to real-world issues and problems.