ABSTRACT
The category of immunisation, is initially analysed through a genealogy of its self-dissolution in the disciplines of law, theology and philosophical anthropology. The passage from law, and its figure of exclusionary inclusion, to that of theology rests on the analogous orientation of law and religion to the containment of the negative. The historical development of the biopolitical governance of the modern nation-state involves the reproduction of an immunitary paradigm of exclusionary inclusion, through the medium of the body. The presence of the 'figure' of exclusionary inclusion in the disciplines of law, theology, philosophical anthropology and politics reveals a logic of self-dissolution which occludes the possibility of a thought beyond this immunitary paradigm. The metacritique indicates this possibility in the return to the biological plane and the presentation of a common immunity. This originary bioethics is the prolegomena to the further reworking of the notions of law, community and the political.
