Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community

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Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community is a philosophical work by Roberto Esposito that critically rethinks the concept of community, emphasizing shared obligation, exposure, and vulnerability rather than identity or belonging.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
philosophical work
academicDiscipline philosophy
political theory
social theory
author Roberto Esposito NERFINISHED
centralConcept communitas
exposure
immunity
munus
shared obligation
vulnerability
countryOfOrigin Italy
EnglishTitle Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community NERFINISHED
followedBy Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life NERFINISHED
genre philosophy
political philosophy
hasEnglishTranslation yes
influencedBy Giorgio Agamben NERFINISHED
Jean-Luc Nancy NERFINISHED
Martin Heidegger NERFINISHED
languageOfFirstPublication Italian
mainSubject community
ethics
political philosophy of community
social ontology
notableIdea community as a lack rather than a property
community grounded in obligation (munus) rather than identity
tension between communitas and immunitas
opposesView community as belonging
community as identity
originalLanguage Italian
originalTitle Communitas. Origine e destino della comunità NERFINISHED
partOf Roberto Esposito’s community–immunity trilogy NERFINISHED
philosophicalApproach deconstruction of traditional concept of community
proposesView community as shared obligation and exposure
publicationYear 1998
publisher Einaudi NERFINISHED
relatedWork Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy NERFINISHED
targetAudience researchers in social and political philosophy
scholars of philosophy
students of political theory
theoreticalTradition Italian political philosophy
contemporary continental philosophy

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Roberto Esposito notableWork Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community