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OverviewThe work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of the individual within it. In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. Taking his cue from Foucault s fragmentary analysis of biopolitics, Agamben probes with great breadth, intensity, and acuteness the covert or implicit presence of an idea of biopolitics in the history of traditional political theory. He argues that from the earliest treatises of political theory, notably in Aristotle s notion of man as a political animal, and throughout the history of Western thinking about sovereignty (whether of the king or the state), a notion of sovereignty as power over life is implicit. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-RoazenPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.259kg ISBN: 9780804732185ISBN 10: 0804732183 Pages: 228 Publication Date: 01 April 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAgamben's intuition, chronicle and meditation are fascinating. --The Review of Politics The story of homo sacer is certainly worth reading because of its suggestiveness and provocations. --Modernism/Modernity Agamben's intuition, chronicle and meditation are fascinating. -- The Review of Politics The story of homo sacer is certainly worth reading because of its suggestiveness and provocations. -- Modernism/Modernity Agamben's intuition, chronicle and meditation are fascinating. - The Review of Politics The story of homo sacer is certainly worth reading because of its suggestiveness and provocations. - Modernism/Modernity “The story of homo sacer is certainly worth reading because of its suggestiveness and provocations.”— Modernism/Modernity 0;The story of homo sacer is certainly worth reading because of its suggestiveness and provocations.1;2; Modernism/Modernity Author InformationGiorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the University of Venice. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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