Roberto Esposito

Tilottama Rajan is Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in English and Theory and a former Director of the Centre for Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Dark Interpreter: the Discourse of Romanticism (Cornell University Press, 1980), The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice (Cornell University Press, 1990), Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard (Stanford UP, 2002) and Romantic Narrative (Johns Hopkins, 2010). She has also edited or coedited eight books, most recently William Blake: Modernity and Disaster (University of Toronto Press, 2020). Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Lived Experience from the Inside Out: Social and Political Philosophy in Edith Stein (Duquesne University Press, 2014), Badiou and Derrida: Politics, Events and Their Time (Continuum, 2007), The Philosophy of Edith Stein (Duquesne University Press, 2007) and Giordano Bruno and the Logic of Coincidence (Peter Lang, 1998).

A compelling collection of essays that attests to the extraordinary versatility of Roberto Esposito’s thought, and the generosity of his engagement with other thinkers. Attentive to his diagonal and dialogic philosophical approach, the authors in this volume provide a welcome and stimulating expansion of current Esposito scholarship.

• 1. Introduction: Beyond Biopolitics – The Space and General Economy of Esposito’s WorkTilottama Rajan and Antonio CalcagnoPart I: Beginnings: Esposito’s Early Work 2. Esposito and Machiavelli: Inspiration and AffinityOlga Zorzi Pugliese 3. Feudal Authority and Conflict in History: Giambattista Vico and Roberto Esposito’s A Philosophy for Europe: From the OutsideAlexander U. Bertland 4. Genres of the Political: The Impolitical Comedy of ConflictTimothy Campbell Part II: Intensifications: Living Thought, Methodology, and the Biological Turn 5. Immunisation and the Natural Sciences: Esposito on Disciplines, Deconstruction and EquilibriumRobert Mitchell6. Openings: Biology and Philosophy in Esposito, Bichat and HegelTilottama Rajan7. Esposito’s TransversalitiesGary Genosko Part III: Transversal Readings: Esposito in Dialogue with Others8. (Auto)immunity in Esposito and DerridaCary Wolfe9. Third Person and Fourth Person: Esposito and BlanchotJoshua Schuster 10. Repositioning Simone Weil and Roberto Esposito: Life, the Impersonal and the Renunciant Obligation of the GoodAntonio Calcagno 11. The Vico-Momentum: Esposito on Language and LifeFelice Cimatti12. Esposito, Nancy and the Evasion of DialecticsChristopher Lauer13. Outside of Thought Roberto Esposito Notes on ContributorsIndex