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Roberto Esposito SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy ————— Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder, editors Roberto Esposito Biopolitics and Philosophy EDITED BY Inna Viriasova Antonio Calcagno AND Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2018 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY www.sunypress.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Viriasova, Inna, editor. Title: Roberto Esposito : biopolitics and philosophy / edited by Inna Viriasova and Antonio Calcagno. Other titles: Roberto Esposito (State University of New York Press) Description: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2018. | Series: SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017034890 | ISBN 9781438470351 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438470368 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Biopolitics—Philosophy. | Political science—Philosophy. | International relations—Philosophy. | Esposito, Roberto, 1950– Classification: LCC JA80 .R638 2018 | DDC 320.01—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017034890 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Abbreviations vii Introduction: Thinking with Roberto Esposito ix Inna Viriasova Part I: Reading Esposito 1. The Presence and Absence of Origin: Roberto Esposito’s Early Interpretation of Giambattista Vico 3 Alexander U. Bertland 2. Thinking Community 27 Diane Enns 3. Debt and the Proper in Agamben and Esposito 47 Greg Bird 4. Against the Conspiracy. Revisiting Life’s Vertigo: On Roberto Esposito’s Terza persona and Da fuori 65 Alberto Moreiras 5. Fold of Life: Roberto Esposito on “the Living Person” and Animistic Personhood 101 Inna Viriasova 6. The Failure of the Political Concept of the Person? A Foucaultian-Arendtian Response to Roberto Esposito 127 Antonio Calcagno vi Contents 7. Person and Munus in the Thought of Roberto Esposito 143 Jonathan Short 8. From Biopolitics to Political Animism: Roberto Esposito’s Things 161 Federico Luisetti Part II: Applying Esposito 9. The Impolitical Dimension in Jorge Luis Borges’s Literature: A Gaze on the Impossible for Politics through Roberto Esposito’s Thought 179 Federico Fridman 10. Internalities of International Relations and the Politics of Externalities: Affirming the Impossibility of IR with Roberto Esposito 201 Mark F. N. Franke 11. Living Through Catastrophe: Warring Immunities, Dramatization and Counter-Actualization in Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched 219 Geoffrey Whitehall 12. Becoming Normative: Law, Life, and the Possibility of an Affirmative Biopolitics 241 Patrick Hanafin Contributors 259 Index 263 Abbreviations Esposito’s Works in Italian (CIM) Categorie dell’impolitico (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1999). (DF) Da fuori. Una filosofia per l’Europa (Torino: Einaudi, 2016). (DP) Dieci pensieri sulla politica (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2011). (II) Dall’impolitico all’impersonale: conversazioni filosofiche (Milano: Mimesis, 2012). (MV) La politica e la storia. Machiavelli e Vico (Napoli: Liguori, 1980). (PC) Le persone e le cose (Torino: Einaudi, 2014). (TPN) Terza persona. Politica della vita e filosofia dell’impersonale (Torino: Einaudi, 2007). (VR) Vico e Rousseau e il moderno Stato borghese (Bari: De Donato, 1976). Esposito’s Works in English Translation (BS) Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy, trans. Timothy Campbell (Min- neapolis, MN: Minnesota University Press, 2008). (CI) Categories of the Impolitical, trans. Connal Parsley (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015). vii viii Abbreviations (CM) Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community, trans. Timothy Campbell (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004). (IM) Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life, trans. Zakiya Hanafi (Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2011). (LT) Living Thought: The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy, trans. Zakiya Hanafi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012). (PT) Persons and Things: From the Body’s Point of View, trans. Zakiya Hanafi (Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2015). (TP) Third Person: Politics of Life and Philosophy of the Impersonal, trans. Zakiya Hanafi (Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2012). (TTP) Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics, trans. R. Noel Welch (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013). (TW) Two: The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought, trans. Zakiya Hanafi (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015). Introduction Thinking with Roberto Esposito Inna Viriasova This book is dedicated to the work of the contemporary Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito. He is currently professor of philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa, Italy. Esposito appeared on the philosophical scene in the 1970s with contributions to the history of political ideas, including major publications on Machiavelli, Vico, and Rousseau; he has gradually become one of the most recognized names in contemporary debates in political philosophy through his extensive work on biopolitics, community, immunity, and the person. Over the past two decades we have witnessed a growing interest in Esposito’s work, and his thought continues to have an impact on schol- arship in many disciplines, including politics, sociology, literature, and philosophy. As his work becomes better known in the English-speaking world, more attention is being paid specifically to his intervention in the field of biopolitical theory opened up by Michel Foucault. Esposito’s par- ticular contribution in this regard lies in his development of the project of affirmative biopolitics, which explores the ways in which life, despite its unavoidable politicization in modernity, can nevertheless regain and maintain its creative potential. Due to its innovative and comprehensive nature, Esposito’s writing has already garnered special attention in many leading academic journals, and a number of books are being published that focus on his thought vis-à-vis Italian philosophy. A number of conferences ix
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