The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life

ISBN-13: 9780748643653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str.

Clemens, Justin

Opis

More than any other thinker, Giorgio Agamben shows us that philosophy is also a matter of style and politics a matter of poetics. This book explores the unexpected and illuminating paths that his work traces across the territories of law and literature, linguistics, dance or cinema, in search of a new idea and practice of the community. It offers an irreplaceable introduction to one of the most fascinating thinkers of our time.'Jacques RanciereGathering some of the most important established and emerging scholars to examine his body of work, this collection of essays seeks to explore Agamben's thought from these broader philosophical and literary concerns, underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy. Including a contribution by Agamben himself, it is essential reading for anyone interested in his work.In the past five years, Giorgio Agamben has emerged as one of the most important continental philosophers. This burgeoning popularity of his work has largely been confined to a study of the homo sacer series. Yet these later 'political' works have their foundation in Agamben's earlier works on the philosophy of language, aesthetics and literature. From a philosophy of language and linguistics that leads to a broader theory of representation, Agamben develops a critical theory that attempts to explore the hiatuses and paradoxes that govern discursive practice across a broad range of disciplines.
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Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; The Enigma of Giorgio Agamben, Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron, and Alex Murray; 1. K, Giorgio Agamben; 2. Integral Actuality: On Giorgio Agamben's Idea Of Prose, Alexander García Düttmann; 3. The role of the shifter and the problem of reference in Giorgio Agamben, Justin Clemens; 4. 'Its silent working was a delusion', Jessica Whyte; 5. Politics and Poetics of Divine Violence: On a Figure in Giorgio Agamben and Walter Benjamin, Arne De Boever; 6. Idea of poetry, idea of prose, Nicholas Heron; 7. The fading memory of homo non sacer, Anton Schütz; 8. Soulblind, or On Profanation, Thanos Zartaloudis; 9. Face to Face with Agamben; or, the Other in Love, Julian Wolfreys; 10. Beyond Spectacle and the Image: the poetics of Guy Debord and Agamben, Alex Murray; 11. Dismantling theatricality: aesthetics of bare life, Barbara Formis; 12. Notes on Media and Biopolitics: 'Notes on Gesture', Deborah Levitt. Index.