1st Edition

Community, Immunity and the Proper Roberto Esposito

Edited By Greg Bird, Jon Short Copyright 2015
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

It is widely apparent in our hyper-globalized world that the epistemologies, institutions, and practices underwriting it have reached a state of profound crisis. In the globalized world, everything is inevitably brought into proximity and correlation. Wars, natural disasters, climatic upheaval, nor political and economic turmoil, none of these can be effectively isolated, insulated, instituted,... Read more

1. Community, Immunity, and the Proper: An Introduction to the Political Theory of Roberto Esposito Greg Bird and Jonathan Short

2. Hegel on Communitas: An Unexplored Relationship between Hegel and Esposito María del Rosario Acosta López

3. Roberto Esposito’s Deontological Communal Contract Greg Bird

4. The Membrane and the Diaphragm: Derrida and Esposito on Immunity, Community, and Birth Penelope Deutscher

5. How (Not) to Properly Abandon the Improper? Ignaas Devisch

6. Community, Immunity, Biopolitics Roberto Esposito

7. Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity Peter Gratton

8. The Ethics of Community: Nancy, Blanchot, Esposito Kristin Hole

9. Fraternity Jean-Luc Nancy

10. Communitas and the Problem of Women Anne O’Byrne

11. On an Obligatory Nothing: Situating the Political in Post-Metaphysical Community Jonathan Short

12. Roberto Esposito’s Political Philosophy of the Gift Lorna Weir

Biography

Greg Bird is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His research examines critical iterations of community in classical and contemporary social and political philosophy.

Jon Short teaches in the Department of Sociology at York University in Toronto, Canada. He has published essays in contemporary social and political thought with an emphasis on contemporary Italian political theory.