IMUNITETO SAMPRATA JACQUES’O DERRIDA IR ROBERTO ESPOSITO FILOSOFIJOJE
THE NOTION OF IMMUNITY IN THE PHILOSOPHIES OF JACQUES DERRIDA AND ROBERTO ESPOSITO

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the notion of immunity which belongs both to nature and culture, and to biology and politics. Jacques Derrida uses the notions of immunity and autoimmunity to examine the contradictory and aporetic nature of religion and democracy: both religion and democracy seek to protect their purity by rejecting external elements; however, to maintain their communitary character they have to protect themselves from their immunitary reactions. Roberto Esposito examines the notion of immunity in the context of biopolitics: biopolitical exclusion is based on an immunitary logic, which helps to distinguish between what is internal and external, or proper and improper. In contrast to this strategy of negative biopolitics, Esposito creates his own projects of affirmative biopolitics, based on the notion of community.

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