Roberto Esposito

Inna Viriasova is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Acadia University in Canada and the author of At the Limits of the Political: Affect, Life, Things. Antonio Calcagno Professor of Philosophy at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His books include Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy, also published by SUNY Press, and Lived Experience from the Inside Out: Social and Political Philosophy in Edith Stein.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction: Thinking with Roberto EspositoInna ViriasovaPart I: Reading Esposito 1. The Presence and Absence of Origin: Roberto Esposito's Early Interpretation of Giambattista VicoAlexander U. Bertland2. Thinking CommunityDiane Enns3. Debt and the Proper in Agamben and EspositoGreg Bird4. Against the Conspiracy. Revisiting Life's Vertigo: On Roberto Esposito's Terza persona and Da fuoriAlberto Moreiras5. Fold of Life: Roberto Esposito on "the Living Person" and Animistic PersonhoodInna Viriasova6. The Failure of the Political Concept of the Person? A Foucaultian-Arendtian Response to Roberto EspositoAntonio Calcagno7. Person and Munus in the Thought of Roberto EspositoJonathan Short8. From Biopolitics to Political Animism: Roberto Esposito's ThingsFederico LuisettiPart II: Applying Esposito 9. The Impolitical Dimension in Jorge Luis Borges's Literature: A Gaze on the Impossible for Politics through Roberto Esposito's ThoughtFederico Fridman10. Internalities of International Relations and the Politics of Externalities: Affirming the Impossibility of IR with Roberto EspositoMark F. N. Franke11. Living Through Catastrophe: Warring Immunities, Dramatization and Counter-Actualization in Wajdi Mouawad's ScorchedGeoffrey Whitehall12. Becoming Normative: Law, Life, and the Possibility of an Affirmative BiopoliticsPatrick HanafinContributorsIndex

"To my knowledge there are no other books—in Italian or English—that attempt to provide a critical introduction to Esposito's works and an engagement with his works in fields outside of political science and philosophy. This volume is an important first." — Rhiannon Noel Welch, author of Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy