Immunization of biopower in modernity: politics that both protects and denies life

Abstract

This article, from the viewpoint of the philosophy of Roberto Esposito, seeks to address the issue of why the birth of modernity in terms of a politics of life always threatens to become a politics of death. I defend the thesis that the experience of death in contemporary politics is the consequence of a paradigm of immunization. The careful analysis of this thesis will show that the biopolitical mechanism formulated by Foucault (wih whom I am in agreement), without doubt, explains why the dangers of this form of biopower to be immunized are deeply rooted in our thinking in modernity.