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This book collects new contributions from an international group of leading scholars - including many who have worked closely with Agamben - to consider the impact of Agamben’s thought on…
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Thanos Zartaloudis
Offers an introduction to the jurisprudential, political and philosophical thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. This work deals with the three main themes of Agamben’s work: Power; Law…
Si en un primer momento se intuia que el monumental proyecto de Homo sacer (1995-2015) consistia en una critica acotada a la logica de la soberania y al estado de…
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In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin’s early essay ‘Towards the Critique of Violence’ (1921) has taken a central place in politico-philosophic debates. The complexity and perhaps…
Janet Harbord (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Demonstrates how Agamben’s ideas can enrich and extend our understanding of film as a medium and the cinema as an apparatus, constantly being remade –
German Eduardo Primera
With the publication of The Use of Bodies (2016), Agamben’s multi-volume Homo Sacer project has come to an end, or to paraphrase Agamben, has been abandoned. We now have a…
Giorgio Agamben
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents an account of the political upheavals that ensued as the COVID-19 pandemic brought his country–and with it his countrymen’s personal liberties–to a crashing halt. While…
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Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents an account of the political upheavals that ensued as the COVID-19 pandemic brought his country-and with it his countrymen’s personal liberties-to a crashing halt. While…
In 2006, Italian photographer Armin Linke was given a commission by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, and proposed a photographic mapping of all the institutions now housed in…
Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be the fundamental messianic texts of the West. He argues…
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…
In this book, Agamben investigates the roots of the modern moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy.
Offers Agamben’s genealogy of power in terms of political, philosophical and legal thought. This book investigates the genealogy of the strife between the Polis and its population with particular regard…
First English-language edition published in Great Britain in 2021 by ERIS, an imprint of Urtext Ltd. This edition published by arrangement with ERIS.
Presents radical meditation on language and philosophy.
A probing investigation of the trial of Jesus by noted Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
The final volume in Homo Sacer, Giorgio Agamben’s wide-ranging investigation of the foundations of Western politics and culture.
A first step toward a viable theory of the manifold internal conflicts that afflict the world’s populations today, this book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two…
This latest collection of texts, which focus on the mystery of literature, as well as on language as a laboratory for conceiving an ethical-political perspective that places us beyond sovereign…
Taking Benedict XVI’s abdication as his point of departure, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben offers some reflections on the unresolved dialectics of political theology and the continued relevance of eschatological thinking.
Originally published in Italian in 2017 under the title Creazione e anarchia: l'opera nell'etaa della religione capitalistica.
In The Sacrament of Language Agamben investigates the phenomenon of the oath, arguing that it points toward a fundamental experience of language that lies at the root of religion and…
Originally published in Italian in 2017 under the title Karman: breve trattato sull'azione, la colpa e il gesto.
Originally published in Italian in 2016 under the title Che cos'ae la filosofia?
In this philosophical detective story, Giorgio Agamben reads the mysterious 1938 disappearance of atomic physicist Ettore Majorana as an intentional and decisive objection to how quantum physics had reduced the…
Distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben examines the unusual extensions of executive power seized during states of emergency, a historically underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies…
Giorgio Agamben, Adam Kotsko
A richly illustrated analysis from one of Europe's greatest living philosophers.
In Pinocchio, Giorgio Agamben turns his keen philosopher's eye to the famous nineteenth-century novel by Carlo Collodi. To Agamben…
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Paolo Virno,Giorgio Agamben
Virno’s first book, revised in 2010, and one of the first important considerations of immaterial labor from a heterodox Marxist perspective. With an introduction by Giorgio Agamben –
A translation of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s work, in which the author notes that academic research has lingered on the pagan goddess, while the concept of elemental spirit, ignored by…
At the heart of Pulcinella is Agamben’s exploration of an album of 104 drawings, created by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) near the end of his life, that cover the life…
A collection of essays by political theorists on Agamben’s Homo Sacer.
Colby Dickinson
Requiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson explains why Agamben’s Homer Sacer series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century. He unpacks key…
Joel Gayraud
Qu'est-ce que le serment, d'ou tire-t-il son origine, a quoi sert-il, lui qui semble mettre en question l'homme meme comme animal politique? L'archeologie du serment que propose Giorgio Agamben dans…
Maria Jahn
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,3, Freie Universitat Berlin, Veranstaltung: Seminar, 8 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Mechanismen der…
