About this title: The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of modern sovereignty that he has developed in his multi-volume project Homo Sacer. Agamben insists that like the ancient sovereign state, the modern nation-state defines its power through what he calls 'bare life' by deeming individuals outside the bounds of the political community and therefore not fully human. For Agamben, the concentration camp - in which inmates occupy a gray zone that blurs the ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780822335375ISBN:0822335379
Description: New. "Andrew Norris and the contributors to this collection have not only performed extraordinary feats of textual exegesis but also produced a critical context and set of arguments with and concerning Agamben's theory of sovereignty which will provide th... read more
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Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. ""Politics, Metaphysics, and Death" provides the most lucid and penetrating accounts available of the political thought of Italy's most influential philosopher. Agamben's engagement with the complex entanglement of modernity and the tradition, the contributors to this volume show, cannot be ignored by anyone who would face up to the demands ... read more
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