Title Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer series : a critical introduction and guide / Colby Dickinson

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 236 pages) Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Religious and Political Implications of the Homo Sacer Project -- 2 On Aristotle, Actuality and Potentiality -- 3 Glory and the Significance of Political Theology -- 4 Economy and its Inoperativity -- 5 The Border between the Human and the Animal -- 6 Paul and the Messianic Division of Division -- 7 Form-of-Life beyond the Law -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Introduces the most significant concepts and histories in Giorgio Agamben's central workThe first introductory text to Giorgio Agamben's 9-volume magnum opus, the Homo Sacer series Unpacks Agamben's central concepts, introducing them to new readers of the series and adding nuance for readers more versed in Agamben's philosophyRequiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson explains why Agamben's Homer Sacer is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century. He explores key concepts including sovereignty, potentiality, form-of-life, the state of exception, inoperativity, glory and the messianic as they appear and reappear throughout the series.In Homo Sacer, Agamben provides a delicate and complex interweaving of his views on a wide range of themes including sovereignty, and the state of exception, the Aristotelean distinction between potentiality and actuality, through to the impossibility of stating the existence of language in words and the form-of-life lived beyond all forms of law Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 23, 2022) Subject Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- Works. Selections. SUBJECT Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- fast Subject Political science -- Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY / Political. Political science -- Philosophy Form Electronic book ISBN 9781474486712 1474486711 9781474486729 147448672X

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