Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life

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"Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life" is a philosophical work by Roberto Esposito that examines how modern concepts of immunity shape political life, biopolitics, and the tension between protecting and negating life in contemporary societies.

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instanceOf book
philosophical work
addresses contemporary democratic societies
risk and security politics
the politics of the body NERFINISHED
the relation between law and life
author Roberto Esposito NERFINISHED
contributedTo debates on biopolitics
debates on political theology
theory of community
countryOfOrigin Italy
critiques modern liberal individualism
sovereign power over life
examines how immunity structures political life
legal and medical metaphors of immunity
the ambivalence of protection and exclusion
the biopolitical management of life
the relation between immunity and community
the tension between safeguarding life and negating it
fieldOfStudy philosophy of life
political theory
social philosophy
followedBy Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy NERFINISHED
follows Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community NERFINISHED
genre non-fiction
philosophical treatise
hasPhilosophicalTheme immunitary logic in modern institutions
immunity as both protection and negation
life as a political category
limits of biopolitical protection
relation between individual and community
influencedBy Carl Schmitt’s political theory
Martin Heidegger’s philosophy
Michel Foucault’s biopolitics
mainTopic biopolitics
immunity
modern political community
negation of life
political philosophy
protection of life
originalLanguage Italian
partOf Roberto Esposito’s biopolitics trilogy
philosophicalTradition contemporary continental philosophy
usesConcept community–immunity opposition
immunitary paradigm

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