Terms of the Political

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Taking on interlocutors from throughout the Western philosophical tradition, from Aristotle and Augustine to Weil, Arendt, Nancy, Foucault, and Agamben, Esposito announces the eclipse of a modern political lexicon-"freedom," "democracy," "sovereignty," and "law"--That, in its attempt to protect human life, has so often produced the opposite (violence, melancholy, and death).