Greg Bird is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and the coeditor (with Jonathan Short) of Community, Immunity and the Proper: Roberto Esposito.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Political Economy and the ProperI. The Proprietary ConfusionII. The Dialectic of Alienation and AppropriationIII. Dis-Containing Community2. Ontology and the ProperI. The ProperII. The Ereignis III. Interpreting the Ereignis3. The Existential CommunityPART 1. THE 1980SI. The PoliticalII. The Existential Community, Take OnePART 2. THE 1990SIII. Communism and a Deconstructed PhenomenologyIV. The Existential Community, Take TwoPART 3. THE 2000SV. GlobalizationVI. Existential Democracy4. The Community Without ContentPART 1. EARLY PHILOSOPHICAL CONCERNSI. Language and AbsolutionII. Impotentiality and InoperativenessPART 2. THE COMING COMMUNITYIII. DepoliticizationIV. Ontological EthosV. WhateverPART 3. THE HOMO SACER SERIESVI. Economic Theology and Political EconomyVII. Language and EthicsVIII. Priests and MonksIX. Destituent Power5. The Deontological CommunityPART 1. COMMUNITASI. DeontologyII. OntologyPART 2. COMMUNITY AFTER COMMUNITASIII. Communitas and Immunitas IV. CommunitarianismV. Radical RepublicanismConclusionAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

"In this book, Greg Bird identifies and radically conceptualizes being-with as the problematic node that connects thinkers who in other respects are quite diverse such as Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy. His interpretation, acute and rigorous, illuminates in an admirable fashion a decisive passage of contemporary thought." — Roberto Esposito, author of Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community"In this exceptional book, Greg Bird offers for the first time in English a rigorous account of the common philosophical origins of Nancy, Agamben and Esposito's work on community. By emphasizing the centrality of the proper in the ontology of being in common and tracing it back to Heidegger, Bird places Nancy, Agamben, and Esposito at the center of contemporary economico-political philosophical debates." — María del Rosario Acosta López, DePaul UniversityIn Containing Community Greg Bird asks how we might imagine community in such a way that 'being' and not 'having' comes to the fore. His answer, contained across some truly marvelous readings of Proudhon, Marx, Heidegger, and then Nancy, Agamben, and Esposito surprises and delights especially for his take-down of the proprietary prejudice featured so frequently in how we conceive of community. It also happens to be one of the best books to appear in recent memory on Italian thought." — Timothy C. Campbell, Cornell University