Review article
IN SEARCH OF THE COMMUNITY. SOME PHILOSOPHICAL ELABORATIONS OF (BIO)POLITICAL THEORY
Marijan Krivak
; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
This article attempts to bring out again into the light of day the philosophic
positioning of the possibility to constitute a (political) community. One of
the basic questions of every political theory is precisely the one regarding
community, since the paradigm of liberal democracy, which prevails in the
contemporary world order, has completely suppressed its actual relevance.
The article introduces its subject matter through biopolitical philosophy. This
refers, above all, to elaborations of Roberto Esposito on the common root of
the terms communitas and immunitas. Furthermore, a highly relevant analysis
of the philosophical approach to community is derived, as undertaken by
Jean-Luc Nancy, which is followed by Esposito’s attempt at establishing a
connection between democracy and community. Finally, it is attempted once
more to conceive possible philosophical, but also practical ways of thematizing
community.
Keywords
community (communitas); immunitas; biopolitics; Roberto Esposito (Timothy Campbell); Jean-Luc Nancy
Hrčak ID:
64121
URI
Publication date:
16.1.2011.
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