A Life Undivided

ISBN-13: 9783659220289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str.

Jonathan Short

Opis

Although the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agambens political thought has drawn substantial critical attention in North America over roughly the last decade, this coverage tends to focus on only a few works in isolation. This study is one of the few full-length examinations seeking to correct this limitation by providing a synthetic exposition and analysis of a substantial portion of Agambens body of work. Not only does this study address the relative lack of attention paid to Agambens early work on language and aesthetics, it also advances an original assessment of the relative influence on Agambens work as a whole by two key figures, namely, Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin. By proceeding in this way, the study has the objective of establishing that Agambens more recent and explicitly political work does not constitute a shift or break with his earlier thinking, but is an extension and elaboration of it.

O autorze

Jonathan Short was most recently a researcher in the Theory Department at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands. He holds a doctorate in Social and Political Thought from York University in Toronto, Canada. He is also the author of several articles on the interconnections between sovereignty, neo-liberalism, and biopolitics.