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9780822335375

Politics, Metaphysics, And Death

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    9780822335375

  • ISBN10:

    0822335379

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-07-30
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of sovereignty and the politics of life and death laid out in his multivolume Homo Sacer project. Agamben argues that in both the modern world and the ancient, politics inevitably involves a sovereign decision that bans some individuals from the political and human communities. For Agamben, the Nazi concentration camps-in which some inmates are reduced to a form of living death-are not a political aberration but instead the place where this essential political decision about life most clearly reveals itself. Engaging specifically with Homo Sacer, the essays in this collection draw out and contend with the wide-ranging implications of Agamben's radical and controversial interpretation of modern political life.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Living Dead
ANDREW NORRIS
1(30)
Au Hasard
THOMAS CARL WALL
31(18)
Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law
PETER FITZPATRICK
49(25)
S/Citing the Camp
ERIK VOGT
74(33)
The Sovereign Weaver: Beyond the Camp
ANDREAS KALYVAS
107(28)
Anagrammatics of Violence: The Benjaminian Ground of Homo Sacer
ANSELM HAVERKAMP
135(10)
Spacing as the Shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben
ANDREW BENJAMIN
145(28)
Cutting the Branches for Akiba: Agamben's Critique of Derrida
ADAM THURSCHWELL
173(25)
Linguistic Survival and Ethicality: Biopolitics, Subjectivation, and Testimony in Remnants of Auschwitz
CATHERINE MILLS
198(24)
Supposing the Impossibility of Silence and of Sound, of Voice: Bataille, Agamben, and the Holocaust
PAUL HEGARTY
222(26)
Law and Life
RAINER MARIA KIESOW
248(14)
The Exemplary Exception: Philosophical and Political Decisions in Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer
ANDREW NORRIS
262(22)
The State of Exception
GIORGIO AGAMBEN
284(15)
Contributors 299(2)
Index 301

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