Roberto Esposito
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberto Esposito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Esposito |
| SIGNATURE | ESPOSITO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Scuola Normale Superiore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5366-292X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Modeling Sentiment Spread in Reddit's Financial Communities Through Epidemiological and Deep Learning Approaches
We investigate how sentiment towards certain companies spreads in social media.We focus on Reddit's financial communities, particularly those dealing with Google, Apple, and Amazon.We reconstruct users' interaction networks and we track their sentiment over time using a few Deep Learning-based Zero-Shot approaches inspired by recent works.We then introduce an epidemiological-like agent-based model (ABM) to describe sentiment propagation within th…
On the medicalisation of global politics: A conversation with Roberto Esposito
This article explores the intertwining of politics and medicine by analysing how medicine has become politicized, and politics medicalized, as well as the effects of these dynamics on subjectivity, politics and the social. Rather than starting from a fixed research question or hypothesis, this work takes the form of a collaborative enquiry that “allows something to emerge” through social interaction. It unfolds through a series of encounters and …
On Institutions
"Toda vida es instituida por otras y a su vez instituye nuevos significados y nuevas normas". Entrevista a Roberto Esposito
En esta entrevista, el filósofo Roberto Esposito nos aproxima a una de las categorías en la que está trabajando en los últimos años. En el contexto de una crisis política, la potencia instituyente abre un horizonte de posibilidad por fuera de la teología política y desde una biopolítica afirmativa. La idea de conflicto será clave para comprender el papel de la praxis instituyente, también en su relación con la vida
Não comum
In this essay, part of his book Politics and negation: for an affirmative philosophy, the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito analyses property as a political category of the Modern. As such, property would have been constituted and would operate through the negative, that is, through the denial of its contrary. For, such as it occurs with the sovereignty and freedom, is typical of the fundamental categories of the Modern their definition throug…
Institutional turn: Carl Schmitt o Santi Romano
El artículo analiza el problema del institucionalismo en la obra de Carl Schmitt y Santi Romano desde el horizonte de la crítica de la teología política. El autor sostiene que se trata de una operación difícil por las profundas raíces de la teología política en la constitución del léxico político moderno. Seguidamente, reconstruye brevemente la controversia entre Schmitt y Benjamin sobre la teología política y examina la problemática del poder co…
Dyspozytyw osoby
O constituinte e o negativo, a biopolítica e a soberania: Um diálogo entre Roberto Esposito e Antonio Negri
Unfinished Italy
Italy is the Great Incomplete. Every historiographical trend has insisted on this topos, identifying in incompletion and insufficiency the peculiarities of modern Italian history: partial modernity, interrupted Risorgimento, and unresolved identity. This divide can be recognised in the gap between origin and modernity, private and public, individual and collective. The challenge is to work on this incompletion, on the energy contained in potentia…
Living Thought: The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy
This book, itself by a major Italian philosopher, explores the distinctive traits of Italian theory and philosophy, reflecting on why it has been growing in popularity and why people have turned to it for answers to real-world issues and problems
Postdemocracy and biopolitics
The problem facing society today, which is only superficially defined in terms of 'postdemocracy' or exorcised as populism, is not the limits or defects of democracy, but, on the contrary, its completion in the figure of its opposite. One must be aware that the horizon has profoundly and irreversibly changed. At this point, what is at stake is no longer a simple reform of society's institutions; rather, we are faced with a socio-cultural transfor…
Inmunidad, comunidad, biopolítica
Este documento recoge la conferencia impartida por Roberto Esposito el 19 de octubre de 2011 en la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid emplazada en el marco de actividades organizadas por la Asociación TALES y publicada originariamente por la revista Las Torres de Lucca en 2012. En ella, Esposito reflexiona sobre la relación entre los conceptos que han organizado buena parte de su trabajo teórico en las últimas décadas: …
Las personas y las cosas
Vie biologique et vie politique
Persons and Things: From the Body's Point of View
The present article delineates how the Roman and Christian dispositif of the person has increasingly brought about a neat division between persons and things. This has had devastating effects for both. On the one hand, things are reduced not only to servile objects but also to disposable commodities. On the other, the process of derealization of things is paralleled by that of depersonalization of persons; different typologies of persons emerge, …
Two: The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought
This book is about the relationship between theology and politics. In the late stages of a debate that has spanned the entire twentieth century, the ultimate significance of the notion of "political theology" continues to elude us. Despite our efforts to move beyond it, we still remain confined within its horizons. The reason lies in the fact that political theology is neither a concept nor an event, but the hub around which the machinery of West…
Two: The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought
The debate on "political theology" that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its language—we remain in its horizon.The reason for this, says Roberto Esposito, lies in the fact that political theology is neither a concept nor an event; rather, it is the pivot around which the machine of Western civilizati…
Bonds: Schuld, Schulden und andere Verbindlichkeiten
Die seit fünf Jahren aktuelle Finanz- und Schuldenkrise wird häufig moralisch kommentiert. Diese verbreitete Praxis bezieht sich auf die Gewissheit, dass manche Straftaten durch Geldzahlungen gesühnt werden können, also durch Verwandlung einer rechtlich-moralischen in eine finanzielle Schuld, und umgekehrt versäumte Geldzahlungen – zum Beispiel Steuerhinterziehungen – durch Haftstrafen geahndet werden können. Ökonomische sind häufig moralische En…
Communitas, Immunitas, Biopolitik
The Metapolitical Structure of the West
Research Article| December 01 2014 The Metapolitical Structure of the West Roberto Esposito Roberto Esposito Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 147–161. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.22.2.0147 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Roberto Esposito; The Metapolitical Structure of the West. Qui Parle 1 December 2014; 22 (2): 147–161. doi:…
Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics
Terms of Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics presents a decade of thought about origins and possibilities of political theory from one of contemporary Italy's most prolific and engaging political theorists, Roberto Esposito. He has coined a number of critical concepts in current debates about past, present, and future of biopolitics-from his work on implications of etymological and philosophical kinship of community (communitas) and immun…
Community, Immunity, Biopolitics
The author examins the relationship between the concepts of ‘community’, ‘immunity’ and ‘biopolitics’. Each of these terms takes its fullest sense only in relation to the other two. If ‘communitas’ is what binds its members in a commitment of giving from one to the other, ‘immunitas’, by contrast, is what unburdens from the burden, what exonerates from this responsibility. In the same way the community refers to something general and open, immuni…
Third person: Politics of Life and Philosophy of the Impersonal
All discourses aimed at asserting the value of human life as such whether philosophical, ethical, or political assume the notion of personhood as their indispensable point of departure. This is all the more true today. In bioethics, for example, Catholic and secular thinkers may disagree on what constitutes a person and its genesis, but they certainly agree on its decisive importance: human life is considered to be untouchable only when based on …
Politics and Human Nature
Despite all attempts at restoring it, the great humanist tradition could not resist the double trauma of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in which the very idea of humanity had been swallowed up by its opposite. Yet, beyond the critique of humanism carried out by twentieth-century philosophers such as Heidegger, the ancient profile of man as essentially humanus delineates itself again. On the other hand, as soon as the Nietzschean anthropo-technical – or …
For a Philosophy of the Impersonal
For a Philosophy of the Impersonal Roberto Esposito (bio) Translated by Timothy Campbell (bio) 1. Never more than today is the notion of person the unavoidable reference for all discourses that assert the value of human life as such, be they philosophical, political, or juridical in nature. Leaving aside differences in ideology as well as specifically staked-out theoretical positions, no one doubts the relevance of the category of person or chall…
Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics
Terms of Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics presents a decade of thought about origins and possibilities of political theory from one of contemporary Italy's most prolific and engaging political theorists, Roberto Esposito. He has coined a number of critical concepts in current debates about past, present, and future of biopolitics-from his work on implications of etymological and philosophical kinship of community (communitas) and immun…
Community, Immunity, Biopolitics
The author examins the relationship between the concepts of ‘community’, ‘immunity’ and ‘biopolitics’. Each of these terms takes its fullest sense only in relation to the other two. If ‘communitas’ is what binds its members in a commitment of giving from one to the other, ‘immunitas’, by contrast, is what unburdens from the burden, what exonerates from this responsibility. In the same way the community refers to something general and open, immuni…
Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community
No theme has been more central to international philosophical debates than that of community: from American communitarianism to Habermas's ethic of communication to the French deconstruction of community in the work of Derrida and Nancy. Nevertheless, in none of these cases has the concept been examined from the perspective of community's original etymological meaning: cum munus. In Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community, Roberto Esposit…
Living Thought: The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy
This book, itself by a major Italian philosopher, explores the distinctive traits of Italian theory and philosophy, reflecting on why it has been growing in popularity and why people have turned to it for answers to real-world issues and problems
Totalitarianism or Biopolitics? Concerning a Philosophical Interpretation of the Twentieth Century
Persons and Things: From the Body's Point of View
The present article delineates how the Roman and Christian dispositif of the person has increasingly brought about a neat division between persons and things. This has had devastating effects for both. On the one hand, things are reduced not only to servile objects but also to disposable commodities. On the other, the process of derealization of things is paralleled by that of depersonalization of persons; different typologies of persons emerge, …
For a Philosophy of the Impersonal
For a Philosophy of the Impersonal Roberto Esposito (bio) Translated by Timothy Campbell (bio) 1. Never more than today is the notion of person the unavoidable reference for all discourses that assert the value of human life as such, be they philosophical, political, or juridical in nature. Leaving aside differences in ideology as well as specifically staked-out theoretical positions, no one doubts the relevance of the category of person or chall…
Biopolítica y Filosofía: Entrevistado por Vanessa Lemm y Miguel Vatter
es la biopolítica y su situación respecto a las tradiciones de filosofía moderna.asimismo se discute la relación entre las ideologías políticas
Categorías de lo impolítico
Politics and Human Nature
Despite all attempts at restoring it, the great humanist tradition could not resist the double trauma of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in which the very idea of humanity had been swallowed up by its opposite. Yet, beyond the critique of humanism carried out by twentieth-century philosophers such as Heidegger, the ancient profile of man as essentially humanus delineates itself again. On the other hand, as soon as the Nietzschean anthropo-technical – or …
Communitas. Origine e destino della comunità: Origine E Destino Della Comunità
The Immunization Paradigm
In the following excerpt from Bios , Esposito sketches the template of immunity as a response to what he calls a "hermeneutic block" in Foucault's notion of biopolitics. After singling out those moments of greatest tension in Foucault's reading of biopolitics especially as it relates to Nazi thanatopolitics, Esposito sets out in detail the most important features of what he calls the immunization paradigm. Consisting of three dispositifs , namely…
Categorías de lo impolítico
Totalitarianism or Biopolitics? Concerning a Philosophical Interpretation of the Twentieth Century
Preface to Categories of the Impolitical
Preface to Categories of the Impolitical Roberto Esposito (bio) Translated by Connal Parsley 1 When I submitted Categories of the Impolitical to the printers exactly ten years ago, my expectations for its success were certainly not high. Those of the editor were even less so, I suppose, even though the faith he afforded the book (thanks largely to friends like Carlo Galli and teachers Nicola Matteucci and Ezio Raimondi) later proved to be decisiv…
Biopolítica y Filosofía: Entrevistado por Vanessa Lemm y Miguel Vatter
es la biopolítica y su situación respecto a las tradiciones de filosofía moderna.asimismo se discute la relación entre las ideologías políticas
Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community
No theme has been more central to international philosophical debates than that of community: from American communitarianism to Habermas's ethic of communication to the French deconstruction of community in the work of Derrida and Nancy. Nevertheless, in none of these cases has the concept been examined from the perspective of community's original etymological meaning: cum munus. In Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community, Roberto Esposit…
For a Philosophy of the Impersonal
For a Philosophy of the Impersonal Roberto Esposito (bio) Translated by Timothy Campbell (bio) 1. Never more than today is the notion of person the unavoidable reference for all discourses that assert the value of human life as such, be they philosophical, political, or juridical in nature. Leaving aside differences in ideology as well as specifically staked-out theoretical positions, no one doubts the relevance of the category of person or chall…
Politics and Human Nature
Despite all attempts at restoring it, the great humanist tradition could not resist the double trauma of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in which the very idea of humanity had been swallowed up by its opposite. Yet, beyond the critique of humanism carried out by twentieth-century philosophers such as Heidegger, the ancient profile of man as essentially humanus delineates itself again. On the other hand, as soon as the Nietzschean anthropo-technical – or …
Third person: Politics of Life and Philosophy of the Impersonal
All discourses aimed at asserting the value of human life as such whether philosophical, ethical, or political assume the notion of personhood as their indispensable point of departure. This is all the more true today. In bioethics, for example, Catholic and secular thinkers may disagree on what constitutes a person and its genesis, but they certainly agree on its decisive importance: human life is considered to be untouchable only when based on …
Community, Immunity, Biopolitics
The author examins the relationship between the concepts of ‘community’, ‘immunity’ and ‘biopolitics’. Each of these terms takes its fullest sense only in relation to the other two. If ‘communitas’ is what binds its members in a commitment of giving from one to the other, ‘immunitas’, by contrast, is what unburdens from the burden, what exonerates from this responsibility. In the same way the community refers to something general and open, immuni…
Bonds: Schuld, Schulden und andere Verbindlichkeiten
Die seit fünf Jahren aktuelle Finanz- und Schuldenkrise wird häufig moralisch kommentiert. Diese verbreitete Praxis bezieht sich auf die Gewissheit, dass manche Straftaten durch Geldzahlungen gesühnt werden können, also durch Verwandlung einer rechtlich-moralischen in eine finanzielle Schuld, und umgekehrt versäumte Geldzahlungen – zum Beispiel Steuerhinterziehungen – durch Haftstrafen geahndet werden können. Ökonomische sind häufig moralische En…
Communitas, Immunitas, Biopolitik
The Metapolitical Structure of the West
Research Article| December 01 2014 The Metapolitical Structure of the West Roberto Esposito Roberto Esposito Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 147–161. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.22.2.0147 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Roberto Esposito; The Metapolitical Structure of the West. Qui Parle 1 December 2014; 22 (2): 147–161. doi:…
Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics
Terms of Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics presents a decade of thought about origins and possibilities of political theory from one of contemporary Italy's most prolific and engaging political theorists, Roberto Esposito. He has coined a number of critical concepts in current debates about past, present, and future of biopolitics-from his work on implications of etymological and philosophical kinship of community (communitas) and immun…
Two: The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought
This book is about the relationship between theology and politics. In the late stages of a debate that has spanned the entire twentieth century, the ultimate significance of the notion of "political theology" continues to elude us. Despite our efforts to move beyond it, we still remain confined within its horizons. The reason lies in the fact that political theology is neither a concept nor an event, but the hub around which the machinery of West…
Two: The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought
The debate on "political theology" that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its language—we remain in its horizon.The reason for this, says Roberto Esposito, lies in the fact that political theology is neither a concept nor an event; rather, it is the pivot around which the machine of Western civilizati…
Las personas y las cosas
Vie biologique et vie politique
Persons and Things: From the Body's Point of View
The present article delineates how the Roman and Christian dispositif of the person has increasingly brought about a neat division between persons and things. This has had devastating effects for both. On the one hand, things are reduced not only to servile objects but also to disposable commodities. On the other, the process of derealization of things is paralleled by that of depersonalization of persons; different typologies of persons emerge, …
Inmunidad, comunidad, biopolítica
Este documento recoge la conferencia impartida por Roberto Esposito el 19 de octubre de 2011 en la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid emplazada en el marco de actividades organizadas por la Asociación TALES y publicada originariamente por la revista Las Torres de Lucca en 2012. En ella, Esposito reflexiona sobre la relación entre los conceptos que han organizado buena parte de su trabajo teórico en las últimas décadas: …
Postdemocracy and biopolitics
The problem facing society today, which is only superficially defined in terms of 'postdemocracy' or exorcised as populism, is not the limits or defects of democracy, but, on the contrary, its completion in the figure of its opposite. One must be aware that the horizon has profoundly and irreversibly changed. At this point, what is at stake is no longer a simple reform of society's institutions; rather, we are faced with a socio-cultural transfor…
Living Thought: The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy
This book, itself by a major Italian philosopher, explores the distinctive traits of Italian theory and philosophy, reflecting on why it has been growing in popularity and why people have turned to it for answers to real-world issues and problems
O constituinte e o negativo, a biopolítica e a soberania: Um diálogo entre Roberto Esposito e Antonio Negri
Unfinished Italy
Italy is the Great Incomplete. Every historiographical trend has insisted on this topos, identifying in incompletion and insufficiency the peculiarities of modern Italian history: partial modernity, interrupted Risorgimento, and unresolved identity. This divide can be recognised in the gap between origin and modernity, private and public, individual and collective. The challenge is to work on this incompletion, on the energy contained in potentia…
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