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Klara Hofinger
Agamben hat das homo-sacer-Projekt auf acht Bande angelegt, von denen sieben in die Arbeit Eingang gefunden haben, da der aktuelle, achte Band (IV.2) L uso dei corpi noch nicht in…
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Si en un primer momento se intuia que el monumental proyecto de Homo sacer (1995-2015) consistia en una critica acotada a la logica de la soberania y al estado de…
German Eduardo Primera
With the publication of The Use of Bodies (2016), Agamben’s multi-volume Homo Sacer project has come to an end, or to paraphrase Agamben, has been abandoned. We now have a…
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Janet Harbord (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Demonstrates how Agamben’s ideas can enrich and extend our understanding of film as a medium and the cinema as an apparatus, constantly being remade –
In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin’s early essay ‘Towards the Critique of Violence’ (1921) has taken a central place in politico-philosophic debates. The complexity and perhaps…
Giorgio Agamben
Explores the symbiosis of philosophy and literature in understanding negativity.
Taking Benedict XVI’s abdication as his point of departure, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben offers some reflections on the unresolved dialectics of political theology and the continued relevance of eschatological thinking.
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In The Sacrament of Language Agamben investigates the phenomenon of the oath, arguing that it points toward a fundamental experience of language that lies at the root of religion and…
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents an account of the political upheavals that ensued as the COVID-19 pandemic brought his country-and with it his countrymen’s personal liberties-to a crashing halt. While…
Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be the fundamental messianic texts of the West. He argues…
In The Open , contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the human has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or…
This latest collection of texts, which focus on the mystery of literature, as well as on language as a laboratory for conceiving an ethical-political perspective that places us beyond sovereign…
Originally published in Italian in 2017 under the title Karman: breve trattato sull'azione, la colpa e il gesto.
Originally published in Italian in 2016 under the title Che cos'ae la filosofia?
In this philosophical detective story, Giorgio Agamben reads the mysterious 1938 disappearance of atomic physicist Ettore Majorana as an intentional and decisive objection to how quantum physics had reduced the…
Originally published in Italian in 2017 under the title Creazione e anarchia: l'opera nell'etaa della religione capitalistica.
In this book, Agamben investigates the roots of the modern moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy.
The final volume in Homo Sacer, Giorgio Agamben’s wide-ranging investigation of the foundations of Western politics and culture.
A probing investigation of the trial of Jesus by noted Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
A first step toward a viable theory of the manifold internal conflicts that afflict the world’s populations today, this book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two…
First English-language edition published in Great Britain in 2021 by ERIS, an imprint of Urtext Ltd. This edition published by arrangement with ERIS.
Paolo Virno,Giorgio Agamben
Virno’s first book, revised in 2010, and one of the first important considerations of immaterial labor from a heterodox Marxist perspective. With an introduction by Giorgio Agamben –
Offers Agamben’s genealogy of power in terms of political, philosophical and legal thought. This book investigates the genealogy of the strife between the Polis and its population with particular regard…
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents an account of the political upheavals that ensued as the COVID-19 pandemic brought his country–and with it his countrymen’s personal liberties–to a crashing halt. While…
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Presents radical meditation on language and philosophy.
Giorgio Agamben, Adam Kotsko
A richly illustrated analysis from one of Europe's greatest living philosophers.
In Pinocchio, Giorgio Agamben turns his keen philosopher's eye to the famous nineteenth-century novel by Carlo Collodi. To Agamben…
Distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben examines the unusual extensions of executive power seized during states of emergency, a historically underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies…
A translation of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s work, in which the author notes that academic research has lingered on the pagan goddess, while the concept of elemental spirit, ignored by…
At the heart of Pulcinella is Agamben’s exploration of an album of 104 drawings, created by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) near the end of his life, that cover the life…
Colby Dickinson
Requiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson explains why Agamben’s Homer Sacer series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century. He unpacks key…
A collection of essays by political theorists on Agamben’s Homo Sacer.
Joel Gayraud
Qu'est-ce que le serment, d'ou tire-t-il son origine, a quoi sert-il, lui qui semble mettre en question l'homme meme comme animal politique? L'archeologie du serment que propose Giorgio Agamben dans…
Maria Jahn
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,3, Freie Universitat Berlin, Veranstaltung: Seminar, 8 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Mechanismen der…
Giorgio Agamben (Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio)
Agamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger.
Baruch Spinoza Chair Giorgio Agamben
La question de la methode est ici abordee a partir d'une reflexion sur trois concepts: le paradigme, la signature, l'archeologie. L'analyse du paradigme permet de dessiner les lignes essentielles d'un…
This book rethinks the nature of poetic language and rearticulates relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. The author presents literature as a…
One of Italy’s most original philosophers aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the…
The largest single collection of Agamben’s works ever published in any language.