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Community and Immunity of Esposito as a gift

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2022, 15(1), pp.141-165
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2022.15.1.141
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : February 28, 2022
  • Accepted : April 3, 2022
  • Published : April 30, 2022

eun-joo kim 1

1서울시립대학교 도시인문학연구소

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ABSTRACT

This article deals with the discussion of Roberto Esposito who analyzes Foucault’s biopolitics as a modern immune paradigm concept, focusing on the problem of life as a bios. According to Foucault, bio-power emerges in the arena of political power as “power to ‘make’ live and ‘let’ die.” In the bio power, life is involved is a living human being, precisely the ‘population’. Esposito criticizes the modern bio-politics, which takes the population as the object of its rule, for constructing a community that pursues extreme security through the concept of immune sovereignty and strengthens homogeneous community membership. What is interesting in this discussion of Esposito is that it does not stop at criticizing bio-politics, but seeks an affirmative bio-politics. To this end, Esposito examines the possibility through munus, the condition of community and immunity. Munus means a non-reciprocal gift. The purpose of this article is to: By understanding the thought of Esposito that reflects on the establishment of a new relationship between community and immunity, we break away from the immune paradigm that pursues homogenization while expelling heterogeneity, and seek earth planet’s commons and community that affirm immunity as the capacity of genesis beyond modernity.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.