Roberto Esposito

Roberto Esposito

Born	1950 Naples
Era	Contemporary Philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy
Main interests	Biopolitics

Roberto Esposito is an Italian philosopher, who is important for his work in biopolitics.^{[1] [2]} He has been featured in the Summer 2006 issue of the journal Diacritics and the Fall 2013 special issue of Angelaki.

Roberto Esposito was born in Naples where he graduated at the University of Naples 'Federico II'. He is Vice Director of the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, and the coordinator of the doctoral programme in Philosophy. For five years he was the only Italian member of the International Council of Scholars of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris.

He was one of the founders of the European Political Lexicon Research Centre and of the International Centre for a European Legal and Political Lexicon, which was established by a consortium made up of the Universities of Bologna, Florence, Padua, Salerno, Naples L'Orientale and Naples S. Orsola Benincasa. He is co-editor of Filosofia Politica published by il Mulino, the series 'Per la Storia della Filosofia Politica' published by Franco Angeli, the series 'Storia e teoria politica' published by Bibliopolis, and the series 'Comunità e Libertà' published by Laterza. He is editor of the 'Teoria e Oggetti' series published by Liguori and also acts as a philosophy consultant for publishers Einaudi.

His last monograph, "Pensiero vivente. Origine e attualità della filosofia italiana"(forthcoming for Stanford UP), is dedicated to Italian philosophical thought, and aims at creating a historical and theoretical background for the definition of the notion of "Italian Theory".

Bibliography

• "Vico e Rousseau e il moderno Stato borghese", De Donato, 1976 ;
• "Ideologie della neo-avanguardia," Liguori, 1976 ;
• "Il sistema dell’indifferenza: Moravia e il fascismo," Dedalo, 1978 ;
• "La politica e la storia. Machiavelli e Vico," Liguori, 1980 ;
• "Divenire della ragione moderna. Cartesio, Spinoza, Vico, avec Biagio De Giovanni et Giuseppe Zarone," Liguori, 1981 ;
• "Ordine e conflitto. Machiavelli e la letteratura politica del Rinascimento italiano," Liguori, 1984 ;
• "Categorie dell’impolitico," Il Mulino, 1988 ; new edition 1999 ;
• "Nove pensieri sulla politica," Il Mulino, 1993 ;
• "L’origine della politica. Hannah Arendt o Simone Weil?," Donzelli, 1996 ;
• "Lo specchio del reame. Riflessioni su potere e comunicazione," Longo Angelo, 1997 ;
• "Communitas. Origine e destino della comunità", Einaudi, 1998; new edition 2006; Trans. Timothy Campbell as "Communitas: the Origin and Destiny of Community", Stanford University Press, 2004.
• "Immunitas. Protezione e negazione della vita", Einaudi, Torino, 2002. "Immunitas: the Protection and Negation of Life", Polity Press, 2011.
• "Bios. Biopolitica e filosofia", Einaudi, 2004; Trans. Timothy Campbell as "Bìos: Biopolitics and Philosophy", Minnesota University Press, 2008.
• "The Immunization Paradigm" In Timothy Campbell; Special Issue: Bios, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito, Diacritics - Volume 36, Number 2, Summer 2006, pp. 2–22 The Johns Hopkins University Press.
• "Terza persona. Politica della vita e filosofia dell'impersonale", Einaudi, Torino, 2007. “The Third Person”, Polity Press, 2012.
• "Termini della Politica. Communità, immunitià, biopolitica". Mimesis, 2008. Trans. Rhiannon Noel Welch as "Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics", Fordham University Press, 2012.
• "Pensiero vivente. Origine e attualità della filosofia italiana", Einaudi, 2010. Trans. Zakiya Hanafi as "Living Thought: The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy". Stanford University Press, 2013.
• "Politics and Human Nature", in Bio-economy, Christianity, Human Nature, special issue of Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, volume 16 number 3, September 2011. Routledge.
• "Community, Immunity, Biopolitics”, In Greg Bird and Jon Short; Special Issue: Roberto Esposito, Community, and the Proper, Angelaki - Volume 18, Number 3, 2013, pp. pp. 83-90.

Notes

References

• Roberto Esposito - Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane

External links

• Interpreting the 20th Century: Totalitarianism or Biopolitics? Barcelona Metropolis 2008.
• Roberto Esposito: from the Impolitical to the Impersonal by Matías Leandro Saidel Barcelona Metropolis 2011.
• Roberto Esposito, Community, and the Proper Special Issue of Angelaki. Edited by Greg Bird and Jon Short. Angelaki 18(3), 2013.