Giorgio Agamben
Price: $21.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-45169-7
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 15th September 2009 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 160
About the Book
Giorgio Agamben has emerged as one of the most important and controversial figures in continental philosophy and critical theory. Agamben’s work explores the intertwining of law, language, aesthetics and politics and his more recent work theorizes contemporary political situations explored through analysis of the ‘war on terror’.
Emphasizing the importance and significance of Agamben’s work, Alex Murray explains his key ideas including:
- an overview of Agamben’s work from his first publication to the present
- a clear analysis of the philosophy of language and life that is central to Agamben’s thought
- Agamben’s concepts of ethics and witnessing illustrated by popular representations of the holocaust from film and literature
- the way in which Agamben’s political writing is closely related to his work on aesthetics and poetics.
Investigating the relationship between politics, language, literature, aesthetics and ethics, this guide is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex nature of modern political and cultural formations.
Table of Contents
Why Agamben? Key Ideas 1. Language, Linguistics, Life 2. Art and Aesthetics 3. Ethics and Bearing Witness 4. Bio-Politics and Homo Sacer 5. The Sacred, the Profane and the Messianic 6. Poetics and Prose After Agamben Further Reading
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