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While Giorgio Agamben's work has not previously been categorised as
existentialist, his work creatively repackages important
existentialist themes in a politico-theological context. This
collection of essays offers creative new ways of considering
Agamben's critique of the sovereign exception, as well as other
existentialist themes, including feminism and postcolonialism. The
international range of contributors each challenge, complicate or
reimagine Agamben's reading of the sovereign exception, which
appears among the writings of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre,
Heidegger, Beauvoir, Fanon, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others in both
theistic and atheistic forms.Divided into three sections Agamben
and the Sovereign Exception, Agamben and the Death of God and
Existentialist Themes in Agamben this collection re-introduces
Agamben as an unacknowledged existentialist philosopher who takes
the major themes and concepts of existentialism in a startling new
direction.
Interprets Hemingway's fiction through the philosophical lens of
Giorgio Agamben Resolves debate over Hemingway's religious
orientation Brings Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Giorgio Agamben
into close conversation for an interdisciplinary study of political
theology, existentialism, posthumanism, and modernist literature
Leverages Giorgio Agamben's analysis of secularization for an
unprecedented reading of Hemingway's fiction Reveals the Roman
Catholic foundations of secular existentialism, as well as the
existential underbelly of literary modernism Presents the
ritualistic killing of animals by human beings as the latter's
semi-conscious attempt to reclaim the imago Dei Builds upon the
preceding points to level a posthumanist critique of moral
absolutism Marcos Antonio Norris implements Giorgio Agamben's
notion of 'secularized theism' to resolve a critical disagreement
among Hemingway scholars who have portrayed the writer as either a
Roman Catholic or a secular existentialist. He argues that
Hemingway is, properly speaking, neither a secularist nor a theist,
but a 'secularised theist', whose 'religion' is practiced through
sovereign decision making, which, in its most extreme form,
includes the act of killing. This book resolves an important debate
in Hemingway studies and uncovers fundamental similarities between
theism and atheism, building upon the theoretical undertaking first
introduced by Agamben and the Existentialists (EUP, 2021). Bringing
Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and Giorgio Agamben into close
conversation, the author reconceptualises existentialism, issues a
posthumanist critique of moral authoritarianism and advances an
original interpretation of Hemingway as a secularised theist.
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