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One of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work. Looking at figures including Michel Foucault, St Paul, Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, this one-stop reference to Agamben's influences covers 30 thinkers: his primary interlocutors, his secondary references, and the figures who lurk in the background of his arguments without being directly mentioned.

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An ambitious and excellently executed survey of the many influences and interlocutors in the work of Giorgio Agamben, and Kotsko and Salzani's edited volume is an essential book both for those beginning their study of the author of Homo Sacer and for those who have already studied the Italian philosopher for many years.--Douglas J. Cremer, Woodbury University ""The European Legacy"" Marrying philological dexterity with analytical acumen, this volume goes a very long way to rectify the often superficial way in which the writings of Giorgio Agamben have been treated in an academic discourse where citation often replaces understanding. The editors and contributors should be commended for providing us, at last, with the intellectual instruments to critically approach Agamben's creation and destruction of a sui generis philosophical tradition.-- ""Alberto Toscano, Goldsmiths, University of London""

"An ambitious and excellently executed survey of the many influences and interlocutors in the work of Giorgio Agamben, and Kotsko and Salzani's edited volume is an essential book both for those beginning their study of the author of Homo Sacer and for those who have already studied the Italian philosopher for many years.--Douglas J. Cremer, Woodbury University ""The European Legacy"" Marrying philological dexterity with analytical acumen, this volume goes a very long way to rectify the often superficial way in which the writings of Giorgio Agamben have been treated in an academic discourse where citation often replaces understanding. The editors and contributors should be commended for providing us, at last, with the intellectual instruments to critically approach Agamben's creation and destruction of a sui generis philosophical tradition.-- ""Alberto Toscano, Goldsmiths, University of London"""

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Adam Kotsko is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College, Chicago. Carlo Salzani is an independent scholar and translator.

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