Immunitas The Protection and Negation of Life

Name: Immunitas The Protection and Negation of Life
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ISBN: 9780745649146

ISBN-10: 0745649149

ISBN-13: 9780745649146

Edition: 2011

Authors: Roberto. Esposito

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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 risk of destructive conflict. Just as the human body's immune system protects the organism from deadly incursions by viruses and other threats, law also ensures the survival of the community in a life-threatening situation. It protects and prolongs life. But the function of law as a form of immunization points to a more disturbing consideration. Like the individual body, the collective body can be…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 11/21/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.82" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction



Appropriation



Ius proprium



Violence against violence



Double blood



Legal immunization



The katechon



Sacer and sanctus



The restrainer



Political theology



Theodicy



Compensatio



Immunitary anthropology



The productivity of the negative



The risk of community



The power of the void



Biopolitics



Incorporations



The pharmakon



Zellenstaat



The governance of life



The implant



Biophilosophies of immunity



War games



The defeated



Common immunity


Notes


Index