It is widely apparent in our hyper-globalized world that the epistemologies, institutions, and practices underwriting it have reached a state of profound crisis. Everything is inevitably brought into proximity and correlation. Wars, natural disasters, climate change, political and economic turmoil cannot be isolated, insulated, instituted, even immunized, as something apart, something that might be considered proper only to itself. This edition considers this crisis of the proper with a focus on Italian political theorist Roberto Esposito's work on community, immunity, and biopolitics. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

1. Community, Immunity, and the Proper: An Introduction to the Political Theory of Roberto Esposito 2. Hegel on Communitas: An Unexplored Relationship between Hegel and Esposito 3. Roberto Esposito's Deontological Communal Contract 4. The Membrane and the Diaphragm: Derrida and Esposito on Immunity, Community, and Birth 5. How (Not) to Properly Abandon the Improper? 6. Community, Immunity, Biopolitics 7. Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity 8. The Ethics of Community: Nancy, Blanchot, Esposito 9. Fraternity 10. Communitas and the Problem of Women 11. On an Obligatory Nothing: Situating the Political in Post-Metaphysical Community Roberto Esposito's Political Philosophy of the Gift

Greg Bird is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His research examines critical iterations of community in classical and contemporary social and political philosophy.

Jon Short teaches in the Department of Sociology at York University in Toronto, Canada. He has published essays in contemporary social and political thought with an emphasis on contemporary Italian political theory.