We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense,
yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold
internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the
world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory,
Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks at how civil war was conceived
of at two crucial moments in the history of Western thought: in
ancient Athens (from which the political concept of stasis emerges)
and later, in the work of Thomas Hobbes. It identifies civil war as
the fundamental threshold of politicization in the West, an
apparatus that over the course of history has alternately allowed
for the de-politicization of citizenship and the mobilization of
the unpolitical. The arguments herein, first conceived of in the
immediate aftermath of 9/11, have become ever more relevant now
that we have entered the age of planetary civil war.
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