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  • Immunitas

    The Protection and Negation of Life

    This book by Roberto Esposito - a leading Italian political philosopher - is a highly original exploration of the relationship between human bodies and societies. The original function of law, even before it was codified, was to preserve peaceful cohabitation between people who were exposed to the risk of destructive conflict. Just as the human body's immune system protects the organism from ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Vitam Instituere

    A Genealogy of the Institution

    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    In this book, Roberto Esposito continues his philosophical exploration of the relation between institutions and human life. Starting from the enigmatic Latin term vitam instituere, he charts its early emergence in modern philosophy and its development along a path that culminates in a novel understanding of the relationship between politics and life.Although the concept of institutio vitae ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Persons and Things

    From the Body's Point of View

    Series series Theory Redux
    What is the relationship between persons and things? And how does the body transform this relationship? In this highly original new book, Roberto Esposito - one of Italy’s leading political philosophers - considers these questions and shows that starting from the body, rather than from the thing or the person, can help us to reconsider the status of both.Ever since its beginnings, our civilization ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Faces of the Adversary

    The Enigma of Jacob and the Angel

    Translated by Zakiya Hanati ...
    Roberto Esposito's poetic and historically layered new book draws on a famous, and famously opaque, passage from the Old Testament to shed light on the vision of self and domination that has profoundly shaped western identity and left its mark on western culture.These ten lines from Genesis tell the tale of Jacob wrestling with a mysterious adversary on a riverbank. But who exactly is Jacob ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Institution

    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    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 ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Third Person

    All discourses aimed at asserting the value of human life as such—whether philosophical, ethical, or political—assume the notion of personhood as their indispensable point of departure. This is all the more true today. In bioethics, for example, Catholic and secular thinkers may disagree on what constitutes a person and its genesis, but they certainly agree on its decisive importance: human life ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Common Immunity

    Biopolitics in the Age of the Pandemic

    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    After two years of global pandemic, it is no surprise that immunization is now at the center of our experience. From the medicalization of politics to the disciplining of individuals, from lockdowns to mass vaccination programs, contemporary societies seem to be firmly embedded in a syndrome of immunity.To understand the ambivalent effects of this development, it is necessary to go back to its ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Two

    The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought

    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    Series series Commonalities
    The debate on “political theology” that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its language—we remain in its horizon.The reason for this, says Roberto Esposito, lies in the fact that political theology is neither a concept nor an event; rather, it is the ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Politics and Negation

    For an Affirmative Philosophy

    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    For some while we have been witnessing a series of destructive phenomena which seem to indicate a full-fledged return to the negative on the world stage – from terrorism and armed conflict to the threat of environmental catastrophe. At the same time, politics seems increasingly impotent in the face of these threats.In this book, the leading Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito reconstructs the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • A Philosophy for Europe

    From the Outside

    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside – the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism – have radically changed the profile and significance of the space we call Europe. Given a paradigm leap of this sort, philosophical reflection is in a position to exert its creative power more than other types of knowledge. But this can only happen if it is able to go ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Instituting Thought

    Three Paradigms of Political Ontology

    Translated by Mark Epstein ...
    This new book by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito addresses the profound crisis of contemporary politics and examines some of the philosophical approaches that have been used to try to understand and go beyond this crisis. Two approaches have been particularly influential – one indebted to the thought of Martin Heidegger, the other indebted to Gilles Deleuze. While opposed in their ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Living Thought

    The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy

    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    The work of contemporary Italian thinkers, what Roberto Esposito refers to as Italian Theory, is attracting increasing attention around the world. This book explores the reasons for its growing popularity, its distinguishing traits, and why people are turning to these authors for answers to real-world issues and problems. The approach he takes, in line with the keen historical consciousness of ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD