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Author:   Thanos Zartaloudis ,  Professor Tom D. Campbell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   1.100kg
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9781472428844

ISBN 10:   1472428846
Pages:   552
Publication Date:   28 July 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents: Introduction. Part I Life and Sovereignty: The fading memory of homo non sacer, Anton Schutz; Homo sacer and the politics of indifference, William Watkin; The rule of the norm and the political theology of 'real life' in Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben, Kirk Wetters; No life is bare, the ordinary is exceptional: Giorgio Agamben and the question of political ontology, Mathew Abbott. Part II State of Exception and Government: Boundary stones: Giorgio Agamben and the field of sovereignty, Steven DeCaroli; Giorgio Agamben on security, government and the crisis of law, Daniel McLoughlin; The ontology and politics of exception: reflections on the work of Giorgio Agamben, Bruno Gulli; 'The king reigns but he doesn't govern': thinking sovereignty and government with Agamben, Foucault and Rousseau, Jessica Whyte; Imperatives without imperator, Anton Schutz. Part III Law, Violence and Justice: On justice, Thanos Zartaloudis; The creature before the law, Mathew Abbott; Playing with law: Agamben and Derrida on postjuridical justice, Catherine Mills; The hyper-hermeneutic gesture of a subtle revolution, Tom Frost; The threshold and the topos of the remnant: Giorgio Agamben, Paolo Bartoloni. Part IV Fulfilling the Law: the Power of Experience: Passivity at work: a conversation on an element in the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, Alice Lagaay and Juliane Schiffers; Resistance, potentiality and the law: Deleuze and Agamben on 'Bartleby', Alexander Cooke; In a messianic gesture: Agamben's Kafka, Carlo Salzani; The curse of the law and the coming politics: on Agamben, Paul and the Jewish alternative, Adam Kotsko; The ungovernable, Nicholas Heron. Part V Studying the Law: Thinking the law with and against Luhmann, Legendre, Agamben, Anton Schutz; In force without significance: Kantian nihilism and Agamben's critique of law, Daniel McLoughlin; Agamben, Arendt and human rights: bearing witness to the human, John Lechte and Saul Newman; The mask and Agamben: the transitional juridical technics of legal relation, Connal Parsley; Political life: Giorgio Agamben and the idea of authority, Steven DeCaroli; Kafka's land surveyor K.: Agamben's anti-Muselmann, Bostjan Nedoh; What is a destituent power?, Giorgio Agamben (translated by Stephanie Wakefield). Name index.

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Thanos Zartaloudis is Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the University of Kent, UK and a Lecturer at the Architectural Association, School of Architecture, History and Theory Studies, London, UK. Anton Schutz, William Watkin, Kirk Wetters, Mathew Abbott, Steven DeCaroli, Daniel McLoughlin, Bruno Gulli, Jessica Whyte, Thanos Zartaloudis, Catherine Mills, Tom Frost, Paolo Bartoloni, Alice Lagaay, Juliane Schiffers, Alexander Cooke, Carlo Salzani, Adam Kotsko, Nicholas Heron, John Lechte, Saul Newman, Connal Parsley, Bostjan Nedoh, Giorgio Agamben, Stephanie Wakefield

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