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Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory. His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to Guantanamo Bay and the war on terror .

Alex Murray explains Agamben s key ideas, including:

• an overview of his work from first publication to the present
• clear analysis of Agamben s philosophy of language and life
• theories of ethics and witnessing
• the relationship between Agamben s political writing and his work on aesthetics...

This monograph undertakes the first extensive comparative analysis of the works of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, placing the fiction and non-fiction of both writers in relation to the broader cultural, social and political contexts of London from 1979. It begins by tracing the two different Londons of both writers, arguing that their literary and cultural projects are intrinsically linked, yet have remained under-explored in academic criticism.
Alex Murray argues that that while both Sinclair and Ackroyd attempt to utilise radical narrative practices to challenge the...

Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in continental philosophy and critical theory. Agamben’s work explores the intertwining of law, language, aesthetics and politics, most recently theorizing contemporary political situations through analysis of the ‘war on terror’.

Alex Murray explains Agamben’s key ideas, including:

• an overview of his work from his first publication to the present
• clear analysis of Agamben’s philosophy of language and life
• ethics and ‘witnessing’,...