Homo Sacer
Author(s): Giorgio Agamben
The 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.
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0;The story of "homo sacer" is certainly worth reading because of its suggestiveness and provocations.1;2; "Modernism/Modernity"
Introduction; Part I. The Logic of Sovereignty: 1. The paradox of sovereignty; 2. 'Nomos Basileus'; 3. Potentiality and law; 4. Form of law; Threshold; Part II. Homo Sacer: 1. Homo sacer; 2. The ambivalence of the sacred; 3. Sacred life; 4. 'Vitae Necisque Potestas'; 5. Sovereign body and sacred body; 6. The ban and the wolf; Threshold; Part III. The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern: 1. The politicization of life; 2. Biopolitics and the rights of man; 3. Life that does not deserve to live; 4. 'Politics, or giving form to the life of a people'; 5. VP; 6. Politicizing death; 7. The camp as the 'Nomos' of the modern; Threshold; Bibliography; Index of names.
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- : Stanford University Press
- : Stanford University Press
- : 0.269
- : 01 June 1998
- : 216mm X 140mm X 19mm
- : United States
- : books
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- : Giorgio Agamben
- : Paperback
- : 9801
- : English
- : 195
- : 211
- : Illustrations