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1	Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Professor Daniel Heller-Roazen (Translator) add to wishlist The 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 modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to ... see all copies from $16.23! new only from $16.23! \| SVS
2	The Open: Man and Animal more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Kevin Attell (Translator) add to wishlist 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 a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether. see all copies from $8.55! new only from $14.78! \| SVS
3	State of Exception more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Kevin Attell (Translator) add to wishlist Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to ... see all copies from $10.43! new only from $11.20! \| SVS
4	The Man Without Content more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Georgia Albert (Translator) add to wishlist In this book, one of Italy s most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel s claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself. He argues, however, that Hegel by no means ... see all copies from $10.98! new only from $14.78! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experience more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Liz Heron (Translator) add to wishlist How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a "dumb" experience? For Walter Benjamin, the "poverty of experience" was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin's complete works, the ... see all copies from $12.40! new only from $12.40!
6	The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Patricia Dailey (Translator) add to wishlist In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental mession nic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the "messianic" abolition of Jewish law. Situating ... see all copies from $14.26! new only from $19.48! \| SVS
7	Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Professor Daniel Heller-Roazen (Translator) add to wishlist In this book the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz, probing the philosophical and ethical questions raised by their testimony. In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that ... see all copies from $12.46! new only from $12.46! \| SVS
8	Language and Death: The Place of Negativity more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Karen E Pinkus (Translator), Professor Michael Hardt (Translator) add to wishlist A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosophical systems of Hegel and Heidegger within the space of negativity, Giorgio Agamben offers a rigorous ... see all copies from $11.15! new only from $19.64! \| SVS
9	Cy Twombly: Sculptures 1992-2005 more books like this by Cy Twombly, Jochen Littkemann (Photographer), Giorgio Agamben add to wishlist see all copies from $49.95! new only from $64.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Giorgio Agamben: Sovereignty & Life more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Matthew Calarco (Editor), Steven Decaroli (Editor) add to wishlist Giorgio Agamben has come to be recognized in recent years as one of the most provocative and imaginative thinkers in contemporary philosophy and political theory. The essays gathered together in this volume shed light on his extensive body of writings and assess the significance of his work for debates across a wide range of fields, including ... see all copies from $17.67! new only from $17.67! \| SVS
11 view cover	The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Professor Daniel Heller-Roazen (Translator) add to wishlist This book, by one of Italy s most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. The author ... see all copies from $14.78! new only from $14.78! \| SVS
12 view cover	Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Ronald L Martinez (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $13.94! new only from $23.52! \| SVS
13 view cover	Potentialities: Collected Essays more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Professor Daniel Heller-Roazen (Editor) add to wishlist This volume constitutes the largest collection of writings by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben hitherto published in any language. With one exception, the fifteen essays, which reflect the wide range of the author s interests, appear in English for the first time. The essays consider figures in the history of philosophy (such as Plato, ... see all copies from $18.87! new only from $20.57! \| SVS
14 view cover	Idea of Prose more books like this by Giorgio Agamben add to wishlist see all copies from $17.06! new only from $17.06! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Means Without End: Notes on Politics more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Vincenzo Binetti (Translator), Cesare Casarino (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $10.65! new only from $16.99! \| SVS
16 view cover	Profanations more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Jeff Fort (Translator) add to wishlist This is a collection of pivotal essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains.The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In "Profanations", Agamben ... see all copies from $16.25! new only from $16.93! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Coming Community more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Professor Michael Hardt (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $18.50! new only from $18.50!
18 view cover	Estado de Excepcion by Giorgio Agamben add to wishlist see all copies from $20.32! new only from $20.33!
19 view cover	Infancia E Historia by Giorgio Agamben add to wishlist see all copies from $18.80! new only from $18.81!
20	Ausnahmezustand by Giorgio; Müller-Schöll Agamben, Ulrich add to wishlist see all copies from $17.00! new only from $34.47!
21 view cover	The Time That Remains: A Commentary on on the Letter to the Romans more books like this by Giorgio Agamben, Patricia Dailey (Translator) add to wishlist In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental mession nic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the "messianic" abolition of Jewish law. Situating ... see all copies from $56.00! new only from $56.00! \| SVS
22	Lo Abierto by Giorgio Agamben add to wishlist see all copies from $23.34! new only from $23.35!
23	La Potencia Del Pensamiento/ the Power of Thought (Filosofia E Historia) by Giorgio Agamben add to wishlist see all copies from $28.89! new only from $28.90!
24 view cover	Profanaciones by Giorgio Agamben add to wishlist see all copies from $18.44! new only from $18.45!
25	Was Von Auschwitz Bleibt by Giorgio; Monhardt Agamben, Stefan add to wishlist see all copies from $17.00! new only from $34.20!

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