Beyond the Immunization Paradigm: Biopolitics in the Philosophical Project of Roberto Esposito

Abstract

The aim of the text is to reconstruct thoseaspects of Roberto Esposito’s philosophy that build thecore of his theory. The reconstruction focuses on theconcepts of communization, immunization, modernityand biopolitics and tries to explicate the relationshipbetween these terms. The element that binds commu-nization and immunization is negativity, that at thesame time makes the common life possible and presentsthe biggest threat to community. Because the dialecticsbetween community and immunity touches the relationbetween life and death, the problem of communityinvolves the question of biopolitics.

Keywords

• Esposito
• Foucault
• Agamben
• Nancy
• Hobbes – Virchow
• biopolityka
• wspolnota
• immunizacja
• ciało
• nowoczesność
• system immunologiczny.