Roberto Esposito: 18 books

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...

In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer’s Iliad—that “great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by...

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...

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...

Comunità, immunità e biopolitica sono le categorie fondamentali attraverso le quali Roberto Esposito ha elaborato un pensiero tra i più originali e apprezzati della filosofia continentale contemporanea. Pubblicato originariamente nel 2008, Termini della politica ha inaugurato un nuovo modo di pensare...

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...

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...

We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has...

Sono molti i saggi che trattano del lavoro in azienda e che si interrogano sulle nevrosi del nostro tempo, frutto di una società dedita al profitto.Molti i saggi che intendono riportare al centro l’uomo, finalizzati alla riscoperta dell’io... Mancava però un libro  come questo, che alla “saggezza”...

“Termini” sono le grandi parole che per secoli hanno definito il senso della politica, adesso investiti da una sempre più rapida mutazione che rischia di esaurirne il significato. Ma sono anche i confini della politica, oltre i quali si situa quello che di volta in volta si è considerato la...

Da dove nasce la politica? Cosa la lega alla terribile guerra – quella intorno a Troia – che la precede e in qualche modo la determina? Qual è il suo rapporto con la libertà e con il male, con la giustizia e con il potere? Sono le domande essenziali che attraversano questo libro di Roberto Esposito,...

24 conversazioni apparse su Fata Morgana con grandi figure della contemporaneità, studiosi e artisti che parlano del cinema facendone un luogo del pensiero e una forma di vita. Un viaggio in cui il cinema e l’immagine, più di ogni altra forma d’arte, si riscoprono indissolubilmente legati alla...

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...

Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would...