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Massimo Bontempelli, Watching the Moon and Other Plays

tinue under liberalism. Thus, to achieve an affirmative biopolitics, the nexus of biology and politics in immunity must be deconstructed. Rhiannon Noel Welch’s translation captures the rigor and clarity of Esposito’s prose, which is at once concrete and engaging. By translating the key term ‘libertà’ as ‘freedom,’Welch adheres to a norm that promotes lexical consistency within a broad philosophical discourse. The reader, however, should always be cognizant of the fact that ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ do not constitute perfect synonymy so that ‘freedom’ alone deprives ‘libertà’ of its semantic richness. The primary difference between the English and Italian editions (aside from the introductions) is a switching of essays, with the concluding chapter, ‘Community and Violence,’ apparently taken from the volume Dieci pensieri sulla politica (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2011) replaced by ‘Comunità e nichilismo,’ which served as the third chapter of Termini della politica. This discrepancy alters the balance of the Italian text’s tripartite structure, but in no way detracts from the value of the Terms of the Political. Indeed, the translator and editor are to be commended for this rich and suggestive volume, which provides an excellent introduction to Esposito’s philosophical project. These stimulating essays hold an urgent and practical import because ‘translating . . . philosophical formula into reality is anything but easy. Yet as the history of thought as well as the history of humankind demonstrates, for something to be made to happen, one needs to have it gestate over a long period’ (p. 134). Esposito’s work is at once a compelling meditation and a call for action.