A significant political theorist advances the discussion of biopolitics

BÍOS: Biopolitics and Philosophy
Roberto Esposito
Translated and with an Introduction by Timothy Campbell
University of Minnesota Press | 280 pages | 2008
ISBN 978-0-8166-4989-1 | hardcover | $67.50
ISBN 978-0-8166-4990-7 | paperback | $22.50
Posthumanities Series, volume 4

Bíos—significant political theorist Roberto Esposito’s first book to be translated into English—builds on two decades of highly regarded thought, including his thesis that the modern individual is an attempt to attain immunity from the contagion of the extraindividual, namely, the community. In Bíos, Esposito applies such a paradigm of immunization to the analysis of the radical transformation of the political into biopolitics.

"With Bíos, we move well beyond the animal metaphor of Hobbesian origin, of the man who is a wolf to other men. Esposito leads us from there to ..."—Antonio Negri

"Roberto Esposito is an important voice from Italy with an original contribution to contemporary debates about biopolitics. Timothy Campbell’s excellent introduction situates Esposito within the Italian context and highlights the alliances and challenges of his thought with respect to other figures on today’s theoretical scene."—Michael Hardt

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