UID:
almafu_9959231946902883
Format:
1 online resource (696 p.)
ISBN:
0-8047-7125-1
Content:
Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher well known for his brilliance and erudition, as well as for the difficulty and diversity of his seventeen books. The interest which his Homo Sacer sparked in America is likely to continue to grow for a great many years to come. Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction presents the complexity and continuity of Agamben's philosophy—and does so for two separate and distinct audiences. It attempts to provide readers possessing little or no familiarity with Agamben's writings with points of entry for exploring them. For those already well acquainted with Agamben's thought, it offers a critical analysis of the achievements that have marked it.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Abbreviations of Agamben’s Works --
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Preface: The Law of the Good Neighbor --
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Introduction: The Idea of Potentiality --
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Chapter One: Art for Art’s Sake: The Destruction of Aesthetics and The Man Without Content --
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Chapter Two: A General Science of the Human: Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture --
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Chapter Three: A Critique of the Dialectic: Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experience --
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Chapter Four: The Pure Potentiality of Representation: Idea of Prose --
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Chapter Five: From Spectacle to Shekinah: The Coming Community --
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Chapter Six: The Potential of Paradigms: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life --
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Chapter Seven: The Unique and the Unsayable: Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. Homo Sacer III --
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Chapter Eight: The Suspended Substantive: The Open: Man and Animal --
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Chapter Nine: The Exceptional Life of the State: State of Exception. Homo Sacer II.1 --
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Chapter Ten: The Messiah, or On the Sacred and the Profane --
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Conclusion: The Idea of the Work --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-6142-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-6143-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
DOI:
10.1515/9780804771252
