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The Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben is not usually seen as an existentialist philosopher. But now, this volume shows how his work creatively repackages important existentialist themes in a politico-theological context. Divided into three sections 'Agamben and the Sovereign Exception', 'Agamben and the Death of God' and 'Existentialist Themes in Agamben' this collection challenges, complicates and reimagines Agamben's critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes including feminism and postcolonialism.

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Author:   Marcos Antonio Norris (Lecturer in the School of Writing, Literature and Film, Oregon State University) ,  Colby Dickinson (Associate Professor of Theology, Loyola University, Chicago)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9781474478779

ISBN 10:   1474478778
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   22 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Agamben, Nothingness, ExistentialismMarcos Antonio Norris Part I: Agamben and the Sovereign Exception 1. The Many Faces of a Hidden God: Agamben's Relations to Kierkegaard ReconsideredLucas Lazzaretti 2. Biopolitics and Probability: Modifications on Life’s WayVirgil W. Brower 3. Kierkegaard and the Figure of Form-of-LifeTom Frost Part II: Agamben and the Death of God 4. The Death of God in Nietzsche and AgambenVanessa Lemm 5. Nietzsche, Heidegger and the End of Metaphysics in Agamben’s ThoughtColby Dickinson 6. Sartre and Agamben: Nothingness and the (Apparent) Death of GodJohn Gillespie Part III: Existentialist Themes in Agamben 7. Death and the Negative in Agamben and BeauvoirBeatrice Marovich 8. Endless Ontology: Agamben and Sartre on DeathAndrew Welch 9. Destituent Potential and Camus’s Politics of RebellionTim Christiaens 10. Fanon, Decolonisation and the Being/Praxis RelationSusan Dianne Brophy 11. Dis/Belief in Agamben and de SilentioMarcos Antonio Norris 12. The Existential Situation and Christian Experience: Messianism and Eschatological SalvationDaniel Minch

Reviews

Consistently challenging, informative, and enlightening, the essays in this volume make a major contribution in situating Agamben's thought in relation to existentialist thinkers and themes. They provide a bright new lens through which to view Agamben's work. --Kevin Attell, Cornell University

Author Information

Marcos Antonio Norris is a lecturer in the School of Writing, Literature and Film at Oregon State University. He is the author of Hemingway and Agamben: Finding Religion Without God (2023) and the co-editor of Agamben and the Existentialists (2021). Norris has authored more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles, most recently including 'Reading ‘On the Quai at Smyrna’ and ‘A Natural History of the Dead’ in Consideration of Hemingway’s Anti-Humanism' with The Hemingway Review and 'Francis Macomber, the Matador: Reading Hemingway’s ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’' with Studies in the American Short Story. Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Theological Poverty in Continental Philosophy: After Christian Theology (Bloomsbury, 2021), Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy: The Centrality of a Negative Dialectics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), Continental Philosophy and Theology (Brill, 2018), Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation (Fordham University Press, 2016), Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought (Bloomsbury, 2013), Agamben and Theology (T&T Clark, 2011). He is co-author of Agamben’s Coming Philosophy: Finding a New Use for Theology with Adam Kotsko (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). He is also the co-editor of The Challenge of God: Continental Philosophy and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Agamben and the Existentialists (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).

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