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8 Law, Culture & Human. 5 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/lculh8 and id is 1 raw text is: Law, Culture and the Humanities 8(1) 5 Editorial @rThe Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.ulk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1743872111426054 Ich.sagepub.com OSAGE How does our cultural and national location influence our understandings of legal phenomena? This question seems to admit of an obvious answer, namely that our under- standings are decisively shaped by those locations as well as the particular time period in which we work. Yet increasingly, or so it seems, culture and nation are less decisive. Globalization has not just transformed the objects of our inquiries but also the ways in which we constitute those objects. Borrowings of theorizations from various places are now quite common in our interdisciplinary field. In this issue of LCH, we present a symposium on the work of an important Italian philosopher, Roberto Esposito. As the University of Minnesota advertisement for his book Bios states, Roberto Esposito is one of the most prolific and important exponents of contemporary Italian political theory. Bios-his first book to be translated into English-builds on two decades of highly regarded thought, including his thesis that the modem individual-with all of its civil and political rights as well as its moral powers- is an attempt to attain immunity from the contagion of the extraindividual, namely, the community. (see http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/E/esposito bios.html) Such a thesis places Esposito's work at the heart of contemporary inquiries in law, culture, and humanities. I am grateful to Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze for assembling such an interesting and important set of reflections on Esposito's thought. Austin Sarat Amherst College