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'roberto Esposito: Law, Community And The Political' Provides A Critical Legal Introduction To This Increasingly Influential Italian Theorist's Work, By Focusing On Esposito's Reconceptualisation Of The Relationship Between Law, Community And The Political. The Analysis Concentrates Primarily On Esposito's Catégories De L'impolitique, Communitas, Immunitas And Bíos, Which, It Is Argued, Are Animated By An Abiding Concern With The Position Of Critique In Relation To The Tradition Of Modern And Contemporary Legal And Political Philosophy. Esposito's Fundamental Rethinking Of These Notions Breaks With The Existing Framework Of Political And Legal Philosophy, Through The Critique Of Its Underlying Presuppositions. And, In The Process, Esposito Rethinks The Very Form Of Critique. As The First Monograph-length Study Of Esposito In English, This Book Will Be Of Considerable Interest To Those Working In The Areas Of Contemporary Legal And Political Thought And Philosophy.-- Rethinking Community And Law As Genealogy: The Mode Of Critique In Catégories De L'impolitique -- Catégories De L'impolitique I: From The Closure Of Political Theology To The Negativism Of Canetti -- Catégories De L'impolitique Ii: From The Negative Anthropology Of Canetti To The Negative Community Of Bataille -- From The Unpolitical To Communitas -- Communitas -- From Communitas To Immunitas -- Immunitas -- From Immunitas To Bíos: The Outline Of An Affirmative Biopolitics -- Bíos I: Rethinking Biopolitics -- From Foucault To Nietzsche -- Bíos Ii: Towards An Affirmative Biopolitics. Peter Langford. A Glasshouse Book. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 210-228) And Index.