Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics

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CONTENTS Introduction: Biopolitics and Community in Roberto Esposito Vanessa Lemm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Law of Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Melancholy and Community. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Immunitary Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Freedom and Immunity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Immunization and Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Biopolitics and Philosophy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Nazism and Us. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Politics and Human Nature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Totalitarianism or Biopolitics: Toward a Philosophical Interpretation of the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Toward a Philosophy of the Impersonal . . . . 112 Community and Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 TERMS OF THE POLITICAL ...