Roberto Esposito is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Naples.

"A theoretically innovative book, useful for those interested in the future of life and death in the biopolitical age"Political Studies Review"After Communitas and Bios, here, at last, in Zakiya Hanafi's wonderful translation is the centerpiece of Roberto Esposito's biopolitical trilogy, Immunitas. In this work, Esposito offers the reader a stunning genealogy of the category of immunization, one no longer thought merely through the medical sciences, but across a series of disciplines, including law, political theology, philosophical anthropology, and biopolitics, all culminating in the the model of the transplant for imagining an immunization that might lead to 'the immune common.' The result is a book whose innovation is matched only by its fearlessness. An absolute must read for anyone interested in thinking the future of life and politics in a biopolitical age."Timothy C. Campbell, Cornell University

• Introduction I. Appropriation1. Ius proprium2. Violence against violence3. Double blood4. Legal immunizationII. The katéchon1. Sacer and sanctus2. The restrainer3. Political theology4. TheodicyIII. Compensatio1. Immunitary anthropology2. The productivity of the negative3. The risk of community4. The power of the voidIV. Biopolitics1. Incorporations2. The phármakon3. Zellenstaat4. The governance of lifeV. The implant1. Biophilosophies of immunity2. War games3. The defeated4. Common immunity

Roberto Esposito is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Naples.

"A theoretically innovative book, useful for those interested in the future of life and death in the biopolitical age"Political Studies Review"After Communitas and Bios, here, at last, in Zakiya Hanafi's wonderful translation is the centerpiece of Roberto Esposito's biopolitical trilogy, Immunitas. In this work, Esposito offers the reader a stunning genealogy of the category of immunization, one no longer thought merely through the medical sciences, but across a series of disciplines, including law, political theology, philosophical anthropology, and biopolitics, all culminating in the the model of the transplant for imagining an immunization that might lead to 'the immune common.' The result is a book whose innovation is matched only by its fearlessness. An absolute must read for anyone interested in thinking the future of life and politics in a biopolitical age."Timothy C. Campbell, Cornell University

• Introduction I. Appropriation1. Ius proprium2. Violence against violence3. Double blood4. Legal immunizationII. The katéchon1. Sacer and sanctus2. The restrainer3. Political theology4. TheodicyIII. Compensatio1. Immunitary anthropology2. The productivity of the negative3. The risk of community4. The power of the voidIV. Biopolitics1. Incorporations2. The phármakon3. Zellenstaat4. The governance of lifeV. The implant1. Biophilosophies of immunity2. War games3. The defeated4. Common immunity