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1 online resource (263 pages) |
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Cover; Giorgio Agamben; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; The limit of thought; Part I Before the law; 1 The curse of the law and the coming politics: on Agamben, Paul and the Jewish alternative; 2 'A particular fetishism': love, law and the image in Agamben; 3 Agamben and the possibilities of tradition; Part II Politics: or, on the vocation of man; 4 The necessary critique of divine violence: notes on Agamben, Benjamin and Sorel; 5 The purgatory of the camp: political emancipation and the emancipation of the political |
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6 Exemplary subjects: camps and the politics of representation7 'The king reigns but he doesn't govern': thinking sovereignty and government with Agamben, Foucault and Rousseau; 8 Paragraphs on modern cities; Part III Philosophy: or, on the world-to-come; 9 Agamben's Artaud; 10 The many tasks still to come: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben on the future of philosophy and theology; 11 Blessed life ... ; Bibliography; Index |
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This book collects new contributions from an international group of leading scholars - including many who have worked closely with Agamben - to consider the impact of Agamben's thought on research in the humanities and social sciences. Giorgio Agamben: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives addresses the potential of Agamben's thought by re-focusing attention away from his critiques of Western politics and towards his scheme for a political future. Part I of the book draws upon a wide range of issues such as legal oaths, legal reasoning and Christian conceptions of love in o |
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Print version record |
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Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
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Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- fast |
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Law -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Law -- Philosophy
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Political science -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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9781134097791 |
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1134097794 |
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