Roberto Esposito

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Roberto Esposito ( 2000 )

Roberto Esposito (born August 4, 1950 in Naples ) is an Italian philosopher who deals with the topic of biopolitics in modern times in his more recent publications .

life and work

Esposito teaches Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Naples L'Orientale . He is co-director of Filosofia Politica magazine and founding member of the Centro per la Ricerca sul Lessico Politico Europeo , based in Bologna. He is also an employee of the political magazine MicroMega .

Esposito problematizes philosophical and political terms in his work and reformulates them from a historical and theoretical-biopolitical point of view in order to highlight unexplored aspects of their meaning. The result is a spectrum of interpretation that is at the interface of philosophy, anthropology, literature and theology.

By analyzing the political categories of the classics of modern and contemporary thought (from Machiavelli to Carl Schmitt , from Hannah Arendt to Simone Weil , and from Georges Bataille to Leo Strauss ) he underlines the limits of the political, which is constantly confronted with its living form ("Bios"). In his books he borrows from Giorgio Agamben , whose name he hardly cites.

His trilogy, Communitas , Immunitas and Bios , is in many ways reminiscent of the thinking of Jean-Luc Nancy , with whom he worked several times.

His more recent works have been translated into various languages, including a. into German and English.

Fonts

German editions

• 2004: Immunitas. Protection and negation of life, trans. v. Sabine Schulz, Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes
• 2004: Communitas. Origin and ways of the community, trans. v. Sabine Schulz and Francesca Raimondi, Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes
• 2010: Person and Human Life, trans. v. Federica Romanini, Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes
• 2018: two. The machine of political theology and the place of thought, trans. v. Daniel Creutz, Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes

Italian editions

• 1980: La politica e la storia. Machiavelli e Vico, Naples: Liguori
• 1981: Divenire della ragione moderna. Cartesio, Spinoza, Vico (with Biagio De Giovanni and Giuseppe Zarone), Naples: Liguori
• 1984: Ordine e conflitto. Machiavelli e la letteratura politica del Rinascimento italiano, Naples: Liguori
• 1988: Categorie dell'impolitico, Bologna: Il Mulino (2nd edition 1999)
• 1993: Nove pensieri sulla politica, Bologna: Il Mulino
• 1996: L'origine della politica. Hannah Arnedt o Simone Weil, Rome: Donzelli
• 2000: Enciclopedia del pensiero politico, ed. v. Roberto Esposito et al. Carlo Galli, Bari: Laterza
• 2004: Bios: biopolitica e filosofia, Turin: Einaudi
• 2007: Terza persona. Politica della vita e filosofia dell'impersonale, Turin: Einaudi
• 2008: Termini della politica. Comunità, immunità, biopolitica, Milan: Mimesis
• 2010: Pensiero vivente. Origine e attualità della filosofia italiana, Turin: Einaudi
• 2011: Dieci pensieri sulla politica, Bologna: il Mulino
• 2012: Comunità e biopolitica, Milano-Udine: Mimesis
• 2012: Dall'impolitico all'impersonale: conversazioni filosofiche, Milano-Udine: Mimesis
• 2013: Due. La macchina della teologia politica e il posto del pensiero, Turin: Einaudi
• 2014: Le persone e le cose, Turin: Einaudi
• 2016: Da fuori. Una filosofia per l'Europa, Turin: Einaudi
• 2018: Politica e negazione. Per una filosofia affermativa, Turin: Einaudi
• 2020: Pensiero istituente. Tre paradigmi di ontologia politica, Turin: Einaudi

Web links

• It is the great burdensome question: what would a European people be? , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 26, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum Roberto esposio. Scuola Normale Superiore, accessed February 13, 2020 (Italian).