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2018 Program

Event #28

Roberto Esposito

Back to community?

What happened to community? And, first of all, what does this ancient word mean? Starting from the Latin etymology, the word communitas refers to the notion of taking care of others. But this open-minded idea has been replaced – immunized, to use the opposite word – by a new one that excludes the ones that do not belong to it. In the era of globalization, can we hypothesize a return to community? If so, what are the conditions?

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Roberto Esposito teaches Theoretical Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. He collaborates with la Repubblica. He wrote Communitas. Origine e destino della comunità (published by Einaudi in 1998) a book about community translated in several languages, as well as his other book including: Immunitas (2002), Bios (2004), Terza persona (2007), Pensiero vivente (2010), Due (2013), Da fuori. Una filosofia per l’Europa (2016), Politica e negazione (2018), all published by Einaudi. His latest book Termini della politica (Mimesis) will be published at the end of September 2018.

2018 Program

Event #28

Roberto Esposito

Back to community?

Community or the eclipse of Us

Jungle Rudy – the loner and the community

Community and DNA

Olivia Sellerio sings Montalbano

Trio Malinconico unplugged

The community of valiant women

Knowledge in the wind

Our new Renaissance

School, community, justice

The Argonauts in pursuit of dark matter

Re-discovered roots

On a journey with wolves

The secret community

Space, modernity, community

What are today’s myths?

Immigration: changing everything

Architecture as a political action and an instrument for territories’ revitalization

Betraying a relationship: reasons for unfaithfulness

The Renaissance emporium – the heart of the artistic community.

In the name of love

Nom de guerre Lia

My life between zero and 8000

World War I May 24th: Italy enters the War

Adriano Olivetti: building a community

Against competition

World War I: Caporetto

Handwriting history

Back to community?

The wood as a community: cooperation and interdependence among plants

Community in the kitchen

Criticism 2.0. Cultural communication in the age of the web

Virtual communities: how Big Data reflects society

From community to citizenship: European Jews facing modernity

The community of theatre

Tales from the Tower of Babel

Duelling marionettes

World War I
May 24th: Italy enters the War