Roberto Esposito: community, biopolitics and immunization

Authors

  • Guilherme Radomsky Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7984.2017v16n35p459

Abstract

In this essay, I examine four books from Roberto Esposito (Communitas, Immunitas, Bios e Third Person) through the axis ‘life – immunity – experience’. The analysis articulates these three issues to two central problems concerning his writings: biopolitics and community. The aim is to discuss aspects from these books that operate relevant reflections about the contemporary politics. Esposito analyzes biopolitics differently from other important researchers who approach the subject, such as Foucault and Agamben, and his original contribution is in articulating it to the problem of immunization.

Author Biography

Guilherme Radomsky, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Professor do Departamento de Sociologia e dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia (PPGS) e Desenvolvimento
Rural (PGDR) da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

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Published

2017-06-09

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 35 (2017)

Section

Ensaio bibliográfico

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