The Work of Giorgio Agamben Law, Literature, Life

by Clemens, Justin; Heron, Nicholas; Murray, Alex

• ISBN13: 9780748643653
• ISBN10: 0748643656
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-21
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

More than any other thinker, Giorgio Agamben shows us that philosophy is also a matter of style, and politics a matter of poetics. This book explores the unexpected and illuminating paths that his work traces across the territories of law and literature, linguistics, dance or cinema, in search of a new idea and practice of the community. It offers an irreplaceable introduction to one of the most fascinating thinkers of our time.Jacques Ranci re12 new essays, with a contribution by Agamben himselfGathering established and emerging scholars, this collection explores Agamben's thought from broad philosophical and literary concerns, underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy. Contributors include Alexander Garc a D ttmann, Deborah Levitt and Thanos Zartaloudis.

Author Biography

Justin Clemens is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. Nicholas Heron is a PhD candidate in the School of Communication and Culture at the University of Melbourne. Alex Murray is a lecturer in twentieth-century literature at the University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. v
Notes on Contributors	p. vii
The Enigma of Giorgio Agamben	p. 1
K	p. 13
Integral Actuality: On Giorgio Agamben's Idea of Prose	p. 28
The Role of the Shifter and the Problem of Reference in Giorgio Agamben	p. 43
'Its Silent Working was a Delusion'	p. 66
Politics and Poetics of Divine Violence: On a Figure in Giorgio Agamben and Walter Benjamin	p. 82
Idea of Poetry, Idea of Prose	p. 97
The Fading Memory of Homo non Sacer	p. 114
Soulblind, or On Profanation	p. 132
Face to Face with Agamben; or, the Other in Love	p. 149
Beyond Spectacle and the Image: the Poetics of Guy Debord and Agamben	p. 164
Dismantling Theatricality: Aesthetics of Bare Life	p. 181
Notes on Media and Biopolitics: 'Notes on Gesture'	p. 193
Index	p. 212
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