Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: exception, state
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2005-01-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0226009254
ISBN-13: 9780226009254

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception," has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states.The sequel to Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereig

Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: bounds, theory, politics, notes, means
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2000-10-13
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 0816630364
ISBN-13: 9780816630363

Political Science/Critical Theory An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. A critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, this book builds on the previous work of the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben to address the status and nature of politics itself. Bringing politics face-to-face with its own failures of consciousness and consequence, Agamben frames his analysis in terms of clear contemporary relevance. He proposes, in his characteristically allusive and intriguing way,

Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: Zone Books
Keywords: profanations
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007-11-30
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 189095182X
ISBN-13: 9781890951825

The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel, and film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the most provocative writers of our time. In ten essays, Agamben ponders a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation among genius, ego, and theo

Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: man, open
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2003-10-23
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0804747385
ISBN-13: 9780804747387

The end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both messianics and dialecticians. But who is the protagonist of that history that is coming—or has come—to a close? What is man? How did he come on the scene? And how has he maintained his privileged place as the master of, or first among, the animals? In The Open, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the “human” has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether. In an argument that

Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: Zone Books
Keywords: archive, witness, auschwitz, remnants
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 189095117X
ISBN-13: 9781890951177

In this book the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz, probing the philosophical and ethical questions raised by their testimony. "In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essential lacuna; in other words, the survivors bore witness to something it is impossible to bear witness to. As a consequence, commenting on survivors’ testimony necessarily meant interrogating this lacu

Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: exception, state
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2004-01-15
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0226009246
ISBN-13: 9780226009247

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception," has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states.The sequel to Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereig

Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: bounds, theory, community, coming
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1993-02-26
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 0816622353
ISBN-13: 9780816622351