Giorgio Agamben
Subtitle: a critical introduction
By: Leland de la Durantaye.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780804761420; 9780804761437
Subjects: Agamben, Giorgio, -- 1942-; Philosophy, Italian -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the idea of potentiality; title: Art for art's sake. The destruction of aesthetics and the man without content (1970); title: A general science of the human. Stanzas : word and phantasm in western culture (1977); title: A critique of the dialectic. Infancy and history : the destruction of experience (1978); title: The pure potentiality of representation. Idea of prose (1985); title: From spectacle to shekinah : the coming community (1990); title: The potential of paradigms. Homo sacer : sovereign power and bare life (1995); title: The unique and the unsayable. Remnants of Auschwitz : the witness and the archive. Homo sacer III (1998); title: The suspended substantive. On animals and men in the open : man and animal (2002); title: The exceptional life of the state. State of exception (2003); title: The messiah, or on the sacred and the profane; title: Conclusion : the idea of the work.