Immunitas: az élet védelme és tagadása
Immunitas: The protection and negation of life

(Introduction)

Summary/Abstract: In his introductory chapter of his book entitled Immunitas: The Protection and negation of life, Esposito sketches the dialectical examination of his two basic terms: immunitas and communitas. While communitas relates the individual to the community by debt and obligation, making him or her part of the community, immunitas presumes autonomy, freedom from the communal obligations. Esposito makes clear how these two seemingly contrasting logics are inscribed into each other, regulating each other. However, the immunity paradigm of modernity to immunize the individual from what is common ends up in protecting life by negating it and risking to eliminate the communal.

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