Description: Terms of Politics: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics presents a decade of Esposito's thought on the origins and possibilities of political theory.
Brief description: Roberto Esposito is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. His many books in English include Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy and Two: The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought (Fordham).
Review Quotes: Against philosophies of history and for history as thought--this is the break from which Esposito's work wagers an enterprise of deconstruction (of all conceptions of the political up to now) in the name of a new understanding of freedom: between community and immunity, beyond liberalism, beyond the rational animal. He calls it an affirmation of biopolitics, affirmative biopolitics--not for a new inception of the social, but for a redistribution of the energy of thought at the service of another practice of life.-----Alberto Moreias, Texas A&M University