IN HIS BOOK Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community, Italian political philosopher Roberto Esposito analyzes the sociopolitical and etymological constructs of community. He concludes that, in today’s body politic, community has come to mean “property,” belonging to subjects joined together, delimited by borders. On the other hand, when traced back to its Latin roots […]
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