Immunity, community, biopolitics
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Published
03-03-2018
Roberto Esposito
Abstract
This text gathers the conference dictated by Roberto Esposito on October 19th, 2011 at the School of Philosophy of the University Complutense of Madrid in the context of the activities organized by the Association TALES and published originally in the journal Las Torres de Lucca in 2012. In the presentation, Esposito considers the relation among the concepts that have organized his main theoretical work in the last decades: immunity, community and biopolitics. The author presents a genealogy of the concept of community, central in his work, and argues that communitas is what links its members in a gift relation of one to another and, thus, what opens the individual to alterity. If community determines the opening of protection barriers of individual identity, immunity constitutes the essay to reconstitute identity in a defensive and offensive way against any external element ready to threaten it. Since immunity devices are located in the intersection between law and biology, its politics, either pro-active or reactive, will be in direct relation with the active intervention on the biological life of individuals. It is in this sense that biopolitics is where community and immunity action field is interwoven.
How to Cite
Esposito, R. (2018). Immunity, community, biopolitics. Papeles De Identidad, 2018(1), papel 182. https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.18112
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Keywords
immunity, community, positive biopolitics, identity
Section
Fundamentals
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