He was one of the founders of the European Political Lexicon Research Centre and of the International Centre for a European Legal and Political Lexicon, which was established by a consortium made up of the Universities of
Bologna,
Florence,
Padua,
Salerno,
Naples "L'Orientale", and
Naples S. Orsola Benincasa. He is co-editor of the book series Filosofia Politica published by il Mulino, the series Per la Storia della Filosofia Politica published by Franco Angeli, the series Storia e teoria politica published by Bibliopolis, and the series Comunità e Libertà published by Laterza. He is editor of the series Teoria e Oggetti published by Liguori and also acts as a philosophy consultant for the publishing house
Einaudi.
Lo specchio del reame. Riflessioni su potere e comunicazione, Longo Angelo, 1997.
Communitas. Origine e destino della comunità, Einaudi, 1998; new edition 2006. English version: Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community, trans. Timothy Campbell, Stanford University Press, 2004.
Immunitas. Protezione e negazione della vita, Einaudi, Torino, 2002. English version: Immunitas. The Protection and Negation of Life, trans. Zakiya Hanafi, Polity Press, 2011.
Bios. Biopolitica e filosofia, Einaudi, 2004. English version: Bìos: Biopolitics and Philosophy, Trans. Timothy Campbell, Minnesota University Press, 2008.
"The Immunization Paradigm," in Special Issue: Bios, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito, edited by Timothy Campbell, Diacritics - Volume 36, Number 2, Summer 2006, pp. 2–22 The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Terza persona. Politica della vita e filosofia dell'impersonale, Einaudi, Torino, 2007; English version: Third Person. Politics of Life and Philosophy of the Impersonal, trans. Zakiya Hanafi, Polity Press, 2012.
Termini della Politica. Communità, immunitià, biopolitica, Mimesis, 2008. English version: Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics, trans. Rhiannon Noel Welch, Fordham University Press, 2012.
"Pensiero vivente. Origine e attualità della filosofia italiana", Einaudi, 2010. English version: Living Thought. The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy, trans. Zakiya Hanafi, Stanford University Press, 2012.
"Politics and Human Nature", in Bio-economy, Christianity, Human Nature, special issue of Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, volume 16 number 3, September 2011, Routledge.
"Community, Immunity, Biopolitics”, in Greg Bird and Jon Short (eds.), Roberto Esposito, Community, and the Proper, Special Issue: Angelaki, Volume 18, Number 3, 2013, pp. 83-90.
Persons and Things: From the Body's Point of View, trans. Zakiya Hanafi, Polity Books, forthcoming 2015.
Due. La macchina della teologia politica e il posto del pensiero, Einaudi 2013. English version: Two. The machine of political theology and the place of thought, trans. Zakiya Hanafi, Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2015.
"The Immunization Paradigm," in Special Issue: Bios, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito, trans./edited by Timothy Campbell, Diacritics - Volume 36, Number 2, Summer 2006, pp. 2–22 The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Immunitas. The Protection and Negation of Life, trans. Zakiya Hanafi, Polity Press, 2011.
Living Thought. The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy, trans. Zakiya Hanafi, Stanford University Press, 2012.
* "Politics and Human Nature," in Bio-economy, Christianity, Human Nature, Special Issue: Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, volume 16 number 3, September 2011, Routledge.
"Community, Immunity, Biopolitics,” in Greg Bird and Jon Short (eds.), Roberto Esposito, Community, and the Proper, Special Issue: Angelaki, Volume 18, Number 3, 2013, pp. 83-90.
Persons and Things: From the Body's Point of View, trans. Zakiya Hanafi, Polity Books, forthcoming 2015.
Two. The machine of political theology and the place of thought, trans. Zakiya Hanafi, Fordham University Press, 2015.