The power of life
Subtitle: Agamben and the coming politics (To imagine a form of life, II)
By: David Kishik
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780804772297; 9780804772303
Subjects: Philosophy; Political science; Modern Philosophy
Description: "Giorgio Agamben's work develops a new philosophy of life. On its horizon lies the conviction that our form of life can become the guiding and unifying power of the politics to come. Informed by this promise, The Power of Life weaves decisive moments and neglected aspects of Agamben's writings over the past four decades together with the thought of those who influenced him most (including Kafka, Heidegger, Benjamin, Arendt, Deleuze, and Foucault). In addition, the book positions his work in relation to key figures from the history of philosophy (such as Plato, Spinoza, Vico, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Derrida). This approach enables Kishik to offer a vision that ventures beyond Agamben's warning against the power over (bare) life in order to articulate the power of (our form of) life and thus to rethink the biopolitical situation. Following Agamben's prediction that the concept of life will stand at the center of the coming philosophy, Kishik points to some of the most promising directions that this philosophy can take."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dialectic of endarkenment; title: Feather-light rubble; title: Present while absent; title: How to imagine a form of life.