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The Figure of This World - Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology (Hardcover)
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The Figure of This World - Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology (Hardcover)
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This title fundamentally rereads Agamben to defend and develop his
philosophy as post-Heideggerian political ontology. What if we've
been wrong when reading Agamben? The work of the Italian
Continental philosopher Giorgio Agamben is usually read in terms of
critical theory or traditional political philosophy. Now Mathew
Abbott argues that Agamben's thought has been widely misunderstood.
Instead, he shows that it engages with political ontology: studying
the political stakes of the question of being. It radically
reinterprets Agamben's political philosophy, including his concepts
of 'bare life' and 'the exception'. It places Agamben's work in its
philosophical context, positioning it in relation to Benjamin,
Heidegger, Nietzsche, Levinas, Nancy and Wittgenstein. It critiques
the category of representation to show the decisive importance of
poetry and poetic experience for thinking through political
community and to shed light on a number of problems in contemporary
political theory.
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