Giorgio Agamben
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Giorgio Agamben

Sovereignty and Life

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

Giorgio Agamben has come to be recognized in recent years as one of the most provocative and imaginative thinkers in contemporary philosophy and political theory. The essays gathered together in this volume shed light on his extensive body of writings and assess the significance of his work for debates across a wide range of fields, including philosophy, political theory, Jewish studies, and animal studies. The authors discuss material extending across the entire range of Agamben's writings, including such early works as Language and Death and more recent and widely acknowledged works such as Homo Sacer. Readers will find useful discussions of key concepts and theories in Agamben's work, such as sovereignty and bare life, along with more critical analyses of the political stakes and consequences of his theoretical and political interventions.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Contributors
  5. The Work of Man
  6. Bare Life or Social Indeterminacy
  7. The Complexities of Sovereignty
  8. Boundary Stones
  9. Whatever Politics
  10. From Sovereign Ban to Banning Sovereignty
  11. Giorgio Agamben: The Discreet Taste of the Dialectic
  12. Approaching Limit Events
  13. Jamming the Anthropological Machine
  14. Biopolitics, Liberal Eugenics, and Nihilism
  15. Agamben and Foucault on Biopower and Biopolitics
  16. The Ontology and Politics of Exception
  17. Bibliography
  18. Notes
  19. Index