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The Omnibus Homo Sacer

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503603156
Total Pages : 1333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Omnibus Homo Sacer written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 1333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of every major Western institution and discourse. This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up this groundbreaking project. Each volume takes a seemingly obscure and outdated issue as its starting point—an enigmatic figure in Roman law, or medieval debates about God's management of creation, or theories about the origin of the oath—but is always guided by questions with urgent contemporary relevance. The Omnibus Homo Sacer includes: 1.Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life 2.1.State of Exception 2.2.Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm 2.3.The Sacrament of Language: An Archeology of the Oath 2.4.The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Glory 2.5.Opus Dei: An Archeology of Duty 3.Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive 4.1.The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life 4.2.The Use of Bodies

The Omnibus Homo Sacer

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
ISBN 13 : 9781503603059
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Omnibus Homo Sacer written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up Giorgio Agamben's groundbreaking magnum opus.

Homo Sacer

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804732185
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Homo Sacer written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. The reason it remains merely implicit has to do, according to Agamben, with the way the sacred, or the idea of sacrality, becomes indissociable from the idea of sovereignty. Drawing upon Carl Schmitt's idea of the sovereign's status as the exception to the rules he safeguards, and on anthropological research that reveals the close interlinking of the sacred and the taboo, Agamben defines the sacred person as one who can be killed and yet not sacrificed—a paradox he sees as operative in the status of the modern individual living in a system that exerts control over the collective "naked life" of all individuals.

Opus Dei

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804788561
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Opus Dei written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben traces the Church's attempts to repeat Christ's unrepeatable sacrifice. Crucial here is the paradoxical figure of the priest, who becomes more and more a pure instrument of God's power, so that his own motives and character are entirely indifferent as long as he carries out his priestly duties. In modernity, Agamben argues, the Christian priest has become the model ethical subject. We see this above all in Kantian ethics. Contrasting the Christian and modern ontology of duty with the classical ontology of being, Agamben contends that Western philosophy has unfolded in the tension between the two. This latest installment in the study of Western political structures begun in Homo Sacer is a contribution to the study of liturgy, an extension of Nietzsche's genealogy of morals, and a reworking of Heidegger's history of Being.

The Kingdom and the Glory

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804781664
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom and the Glory written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned philosopher expounds on the ideas he introduced in Homo Sacer with this analysis of the theological foundations of political power. In the early centuries of the Church, in order to reconcile monotheism with God’s threefold nature, the doctrine of Trinity was introduced in the guise of an economy of divine life. It was as if the Trinity amounted to nothing more than a problem of managing and governing the heavenly house and the world. In The Kingdom and the Glory, Agamben shows that this theological-economic paradigm unexpectedly lies at the origin of many of the most important categories of modern politics. Its influence ranges from the democratic theory of the division of powers to the strategic doctrine of collateral damage, and from the invisible hand of Smith’s liberalism to ideas of order and security. Agamben also demonstrates that modern power is not only government but also glory, and that the ceremonial, liturgical, and acclamatory aspects that we have regarded as vestiges of the past actually constitute the basis of Western power. Through a fascinating analysis of liturgical acclamations and ceremonial symbols of power—the throne, the crown, purple cloth, the Fasces, and more—Agamben develops an original genealogy that illuminates the startling function of consent and of the media in modern democracies.

STASIS

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474401546
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book STASIS written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giorgio Agamben investigates two founding moments in the formation of European power in its struggle with its most dangerous enemy: internecine civil strife.

Karman

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
ISBN 13 : 9781503602144
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Karman written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology both transform into the paradigm for all of human life. In his search for a way out of this destructive paradigm, Agamben not only draws on minority opinions within the Western tradition but engages at length with Buddhist texts and concepts for the first time. In sum, Karman deepens and rearticulates some of Agamben's core insights while breaking significant new ground.

Once Upon a Time in Tarentum

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Author : Richard C Esler
Publisher : Word Association Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1595717463
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Time in Tarentum written by Richard C Esler and published by Word Association Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pilate and Jesus

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804794588
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Pilate and Jesus written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed philosopher’s penetrating analysis of Pontius Pilate offers provocative and original insight into Western conceptions of judgment and guilt. Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts, as a conflicted judge convinced of Jesus’s innocence in the Gospels, and as either a pious Christian or a virtual demon in later Christian writings. Starting with Pilate’s role in the trial of Jesus, Giorgio Agamben investigates the function of legal judgment in Western society and the ways that such judgment requires us to adjudicate the competing claims of the eternal and the historical. Coming just as Agamben is bringing his decades-long Homo Sacer project to an end, Pilate and Jesus sheds considerable light on what is at stake in that series as a whole. At the same time, it stands on its own, perhaps more than any of the author’s recent works. It thus serves as a perfect starting place for readers who are curious about Agamben’s ideas and approach to philosophy.

The Highest Poverty

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804786747
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Highest Poverty written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture. What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben’s new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The Highest Poverty meticulously reconstructs the lives of monks, with their obsessive attention to temporal articulation and to the Rule, to ascetic techniques and to liturgy. But Agamben’s thesis is that the true novelty of monasticism lies not in the confusion between life and norm, but in the discovery of a new dimension, in which “life” is affirmed in its autonomy, and in which the claim of the “highest poverty” and “use” challenges the law in ways that we must still grapple with today. How can we think a form-of-life, that is, a human life released from the grip of law, and a use of bodies and of the world that never becomes an appropriation? How can we think life as something not subject to ownership but only for common use?

Pax Democratica

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Author : James Robert Huntley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0333977726
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Pax Democratica written by James Robert Huntley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a turbulent century characterized by vast bloodshed, but also by the spread of democratic government and humane values, the author suggests that the great democracies - led by Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the United States - should form an intercontinental community of democracies - a Pax Democratica according to the author. He argues that such a union will culminate centuries of evolution in world order: from empires to balance-of-power Realpolitik , more recently from cooperative international institutions to an era of supranational communities, composed of likeminded peoples and organized around democratic principles.

Where Are We Now?

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538157616
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Where Are We Now? written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal commentaries regarding the 2020 health emergency as it played out in Italy and across the world. Alongside and beyond accusations, these texts reflect upon the great transformation affecting Western democracies. In the name of biosecurity and health, the model of bourgeois democracy—together with its rights, institutions, and constitutions—is surrendering everywhere to a new despotism where citizens accept unprecedented limitations to their freedoms. The push to accept this new normal leads to the urgency of the volume’s title: Where Are We Now? For how long will we accept living in a constantly extended state of exception, the end of which remains impossible to see?

The End of the Poem

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804730229
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The End of the Poem written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking--nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. The author presents "literature" as a set of formal or linguistic genres that discuss or develop theological issues at a certain distance from the discourse of theology. This distance begins to appear in Virgil and Ovid, but it becomes decisive in Dante and in his decision to write in the vernacular. His vernacular Italian reaches back through classical allusion to the Latin that was in his day the language of theology, but it does so with a difference. It is no accident that in the Commedia Virgil is Dante's guide. The book opens with a discussion of just how Dante's poem is a "comedy," and it concludes with a discussion of the "ends of poetry" in a variety of senses: enjambment at the ends of lines, the concluding lines of poems, and the end of poetry as a mode of writing this sort of literature. Of course, to have poetry "end" does not mean that people stop writing it, but that literature passes into a period in which it is concerned with its own ending, with its own bounds and limits, historical and otherwise. Though most of the essays make specific reference to various authors of the Italian literary tradition (including Dante, Polifilo, Pascoli, Delfini, and Caproni), they transcend the confines of Italian literature and engage several other literary and philosophical authors (Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Boethius, the Provençal poets, Mallarmé, and Hölderlin, among others).

The Sacrament of Language

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
ISBN 13 : 9780804768986
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book The Sacrament of Language written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sacrament of Language Agamben investigates the phenomenon of the oath, arguing that it points toward a fundamental experience of language that lies at the root of religion and law alike.

Agamben's Philosophical Trajectory

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Author : Adam Kotsko
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474476010
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Agamben's Philosophical Trajectory written by Adam Kotsko and published by EUP. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giorgio Agamben has emerged as one of the most perceptive and even prophetic political thinkers of his era. Now that he has completed his career-defining work - the multivolume Homo Sacer series - Adam Kotsko, one of his leading translators, shows how his political concerns emerged and evolved as Agamben responded to contemporary events and new intellectual influences while striving to remain true to his deepest intuitions. Kotsko reveals the trajectory of Agamben's work and shows us what it means to practice philosophy as a living, responsive discipline.

What Is Philosophy?

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Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503604055
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book What Is Philosophy? written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its components: the phonemes, letters, syllables, and words that come together to make up the phrases and ideas of philosophical discourse. A summa, of sorts, of Agamben's thought, the book consists of five essays on five emblematic topics: the Voice, the Sayable, the Demand, the Proem, and the Muse. In keeping with the author's trademark methodology, each essay weaves together archaeological and theoretical investigations: to a patient reconstruction of how the concept of language was invented there corresponds an attempt to restore thought to its place within the voice; to an unusual interpretation of the Platonic Idea corresponds a lucid analysis of the relationship between philosophy and science, and of the crisis that both are undergoing today. In the end, there is no universal answer to what is an impossible or inexhaustible question, and philosophical writing—a problem Agamben has never ceased to grapple with—assumes the form of a prelude to a work that must remain unwritten.

Megaform as Urban Landscape

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Author : Kenneth Frampton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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