Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism

by Zartaloudis; Thanos

• ISBN13: 9780415440226
• ISBN10: 041544022X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-12
• Publisher: Cavendish Pub Ltd

Summary

Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism is a thorough engagement with the thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. It explores Agamben's work on language, ontology, power, law and criticism from the 1970s to his most recent publications. Introducing Agamben's work to a readership in legal theory, as well as in the humanities and social sciences more generally, Thanos Zartaloudis argues that an adequate understanding of Agamben's Homo Sacer project requires an attention to his earlier philosophical writings on language, ontology, power and time. It is through this attentive and creative analysis of Agamben's work that Zartaloudis here presents a rethinking of the ideas of justice and criticism. Thanos Zartaloudis researches and teaches at the School of Law, Birkbeck College of the University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part A: Law & Exception 1. Biopolitics, control and the production of indifference 2. The State of Exceptiona 3. The idea of humanity Part B: Justice 4. The Idea of Negativity 5. The Idea of Potentiality 6. The Idea of Justice: time and thought 7. Threshold: The idea of justice and the meaning of criticism