The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly
significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most
prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of
sovereignty and the politics of life and death laid out in his
multivolume Homo Sacer project. Agamben argues that in both the
modern world and the ancient, politics inevitably involves a
sovereign decision that bans some individuals from the political
and human communities. For Agamben, the Nazi concentration camps-in
which some inmates are reduced to a form of living death-are not a
political aberration but instead the place where this essential
political decision about life most clearly reveals itself. Engaging
specifically with Homo Sacer, the essays in this collection draw
out and contend with the wide-ranging implications of Agamben's
radical and controversial interpretation of modern political
life.The contributors analyze Agamben's thought from the
perspectives of political theory, philosophy, jurisprudence, and
the history of law. They consider his work not only in relation to
that of his major interlocutors-Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault,
Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, and Martin Heidegger-but also in
relation to the thought of Plato, Pindar, Heraclitus, Descartes,
Kafka, Bataille, and Derrida. The essayists' approaches are varied,
as are their ultimate evaluations of the cogency and accuracy of
Agamben's arguments. This volume also includes an original essay by
Agamben in which he considers the relation of Benjamin's "Critique
of Violence" to Schmitt's Political Theology. Politics,
Metaphysics, and Death is a necessary, multifaceted exposition and
evaluation of the thought of one of today's most important
political theorists. Contributors: Giorgio Agamben, Andrew
Benjamin, Peter Fitzpatrick, Anselm Haverkamp, Paul Hegarty,
Andreas Kalyvas, Rainer Maria Kiesow , Catherine Mills, Andrew
Norris, Adam Thurschwell, Erik Vogt, Thomas Carl Wall
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(2)
