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Giorgio Agamben: Sovereignty and Life
Matthew CalarcoThis volume provides the first in-depth collection of essays aimed at critically examining the work of political philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
Communist Study: Education for the Commons
Derek R. FordCatherine Mills, The philosophy of Agamben (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008), 2. 2. Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A critical introduction (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009), 19. 3. Giorgio Agamben, Means ...
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Giorgio AgambenThe 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 ...
The Open: Man and Animal
Giorgio AgambenIn '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 a kind of being that is essentially different from animal ...
Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction
Leland de la DurantayeA critical introduction to the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
Ex-centric Cinema: Giorgio Agamben and Film Archaeology
Janet HarbordJohn V. Garner and Colin Williamson, p. 24, in Gustafsson and Grønstad (eds), Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image, New York, London, New Delhi and Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 19–24. Agamben, G.
Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life: Law, ...
PreviewBarbara Formis has a PhD in Philosophy and is a member of the Centre of Philosophy of Art (CPA) at the Sorbonne University (Paris I, ... of legal critique. Jessica Whyte is a doctoral candidate in the Centre for viii The Work of Giorgio Agamben.
Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image
PreviewJohn V. Garner and Colin Williamson in Cinema and Agamben,23. Giorgio Agamben, The Signature of All Things: On Method, trans.Luca D'Isantoand Kevin Attell (New York: Zoone Books,2009 [2008]), 1 This quote appears to be excerpted ...
State of Exception
Giorgio AgambenIn this highly topical book, Agamben ultimately arrives at original ideas about the future of democracy and casts a new light on the hidden relationship that ties law to violence.
Giorgio Agamben: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives
PreviewThinking sovereignty and government with Agamben, Foucaultand Rousseau Jessica Whyte In 2011, the imposition of an unelected banker as the Prime Minister of Greece, the 'birthplace of democracy', led to mass protests and forms of ...
Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy
Giorgio AgambenThis volume is indicative of Agamben s broad range of interests. . . . Despite this range of interests, however, a sustained commitment to certain theoretical issues particularly language and history lends the volume a coherence. . .
Apocalyptic Futures: Marked Bodies and the Violence of the ...
Russell SamolskyBenjamin, The Arcades Project, 395. 15. Qtd. in Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009), 120. 16. Agamben, The Time That Remains, 62. 17. Qtd. in Leland de la Durantaye, ...
Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experience
Giorgio AgambenBeautifully written, erudite and provocative, these essays will be of great interest to students of philosophy, linguistics, anthropology and politics.
Giorgio Agamben: Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction
Kevin AttellBy a happy chance, Jesse Molesworth was also a Mellon fellow at Hopkins at the same time, and I have benefitted from his friendship and intelligence ever since. One could hardly think of a better place than Cornell to think and write about ...
The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life
Giorgio AgambenThe book reconstructs in detail the life of the monks with their obsessive attention to temporal articulation and to the Rule, to ascetic techniques and to liturgy.
(Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy
PreviewJessicaWhyte. In The Kingdom of the Glory, in the midst of outlining what he sees as a specifically Christian account of governing as constant praxis, Giorgio Agamben turnshis attention toatext that has preoccupied him for several decades : ...
Democracy in What State?
Giorgio AgambenPermanent Scandal daniel bensaïd Theater of Shadows The end of the long wave of post–World War II expansion, the rev- elations about the extent of the Soviet Gulag, the horror of Cam- bodia, then the Iranian Revolution and the onset of the ...
Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio ...
Jessica WhyteLeland de la Durantaye notes that the Muselmann is treated as a figure of resistance in Homo Sacer, and suggests that nothing in Remnants of Auschwitz suggests Agamben has changed his mind. In my view, de la Durantaye's depiction of ...
Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive
Jodi DeanSet against the background of the economic crisis wrought by neoliberalism, the book engages with recent work in contemporary media theory as well as with thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, Jacques Lacan, and ...
Agamben
Claire ColebrookThis beautifully written book provides a systematic, engaging overview of Agamben's writings on theology, aesthetics, political theory, and sovereignty.
Edinburgh German Yearbook: Sadness and Melancholy in ...
Preview55 “Melancholia,” says Giorgio Agamben, is the “intention to mourn that precedes and anticipates the loss of the object,” quoted in Charity Scribner, “Left Melancholy,” in Loss, ed. Eng and Kazanjian, 300–319, here 308. 56 Schoch performs ...
Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio MorandiThis book presents an invaluable survey of Giorgio Morandi's drawings, watercolors, and etchings, selected mainly from British and American collections. Morandi was a reserved artist who rarely left his studio in Bologna.
The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies
Preview... whether these are theorists like Agamben or others who merely look upon images of disaster for whatever reasons of their own. Beyond Biopolitics: Agamben, Asylum, and Postcolonial Critique DAVID FARRIER AND PATRICIA TUITT.
The Agamben Dictionary
PreviewAlex Murray, Jessica Whyte. 212 BIBLIOGRAPHY “The Agamben Effect”, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 107, no. 1, 2008. Ed. Alison Ross. Features articles by Andrew Benjamin, Claire Colebrook, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Penelope Deutscher, ...
Sovereign violence: ethics and South Korean Cinema in the ...
Steve ChoeIbid., 93-94. Kyu Hyun Kim, “Park Chan-wook's Thirst: Body, Guilt and Exsanguination,” in Korean Horror Cinema, ed. Alison Peirse and Daniel Martin ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013), 200. Ibid., 200. Ibid., 213. Giorgio Agamben ...
Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence
Janet AbramowiczA fascinating study of the revered twentieth-century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi, written by his friend and former studio assistant
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