Title: Agamben's political ontology of nudity in literature and art /
Authors: Restuccia, Frances L., 1951-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Agamben, Giorgio,; Agamben, Giorgio,; Nude in art; Nude in art
Contents: Literature and art -- Profaning the Messiah or why can't Dulcinea love us? -- A Messianic aesthetic: Lily Briscoe's vision -- The melancholic and Messianic allure of Venice or how best to access the inaccessible -- Non-unveilable nudity: death in Venice -- Agamben's open: Coetzee's dis-grace -- The glorious body: the nude in art -- Theory (Heidegger and Lacan) -- Agamben's post-metaphysical metapolitics: departing from Heidegger -- Is the gaze a state of exception.