The work of Giorgio Agamben
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The work of Giorgio Agamben
Edinburgh University Press, c2011
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The work of Giorgio Agamben : law, literature, life
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Later printing have subtitle: Law, literature, life
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
More than any other thinker, Giorgio Agamben shows us that philosophy is also a matter of style, and politics a matter of poetics. This book explores the unexpected and illuminating paths that his work traces across the territories of law and literature, linguistics, dance or cinema, in search of a new idea and practice of the community. It offers an irreplaceable introduction to one of the most fascinating thinkers of our time. Jacques Ranciere 12 new essays, with a contribution by Agamben himself Gathering established and emerging scholars, this collection explores Agamben's thought from broad philosophical and literary concerns, underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy. Contributors include Alexander Garcia Duttmann, Deborah Levitt and Thanos Zartaloudis.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- The Enigma of Giorgio Agamben, Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron, and Alex Murray
- 1. K, Giorgio Agamben
- 2. Integral Actuality: On Giorgio Agamben's Idea Of Prose, Alexander Garcia Duttmann
- 3. The role of the shifter and the problem of reference in Giorgio Agamben, Justin Clemens
- 4. 'Its silent working was a delusion', Jessica Whyte
- 5. Politics and Poetics of Divine Violence: On a Figure in Giorgio Agamben and Walter Benjamin, Arne De Boever
- 6. Idea of poetry, idea of prose, Nicholas Heron
- 7. The fading memory of homo non sacer, Anton Schutz
- 8. Soulblind, or On Profanation, Thanos Zartaloudis
- 9. Face to Face with Agamben
- or, the Other in Love, Julian Wolfreys
- 10. Beyond Spectacle and the Image: the poetics of Guy Debord and Agamben, Alex Murray
- 11. Dismantling theatricality: aesthetics of bare life, Barbara Formis
- 12. Notes on Media and Biopolitics: 'Notes on Gesture', Deborah Levitt. Index.
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