Roberto Esposito (Piano di Sorrento, 4 August 1950) is an Italian political philosopher, critical theorist, and professor, notable for his academic research and works on biopolitics.

[1][2] He currently serves as professor of theoretical philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.

Esposito was born in Piano di Sorrento, Italy on 4 August 1950.

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.

Zakiya Hanafi, Stanford University Press, 2012), is dedicated to the Italian philosophical thought, and aims at creating a historical and theoretical background for the definition of the notion of "Italian Theory".