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Homo Sacer by Giorgio Agamben & Daniel Heller-Roazen
Sovereign Power and Bare Life
This translation contains Agamben's recent thinking on some concrete, ethical and political conclusions concerning the state of society today and the place of the individual within it. The work draws both on classical traditions and the philosophy of Foucault and Schmitt.The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of the individual within it. In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. Taking his cue from Foucault s fragmentary analysis of biopolitics, Agamben probes with great breadth, intensity, and acuteness the covert or implicit presence of an idea of biopolitics in the history of traditional political theory. He argues that from the earliest treatises of political theory, notably in Aristotle s notion of man as a political animal, and throughout the history of Western thinking about sovereignty (whether of the king or the state), a notion of sovereignty as power over life is implicit. |
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| Author(s) : Giorgio Agamben & Daniel Heller-Roazen | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0804732183 | ISBN-13 : 9780804732185 |
| RRP : £12.95 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics S.
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 31/07/1998
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page Length : 211mm
Page Size : 216mm