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1. Nudities (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 144
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(2010-10-06)
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2. The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 164
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(1999-06-01)
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3. Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction by Leland de la Durantaye | |
Paperback: 488
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(2009-05-21)
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Invaluable |
4. Coming Community (Theory Out Of Bounds) by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 120
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(1993-02-26)
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The Coming Community in Context
The indetermination of limit...
Gateway
Obscuratist |
5. State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 104
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(2005-01-15)
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Extraordinary
Rewarding but not easy
A Thorough Analysis of the Political and Legal Nature of the State of Exception
More great insight from Agamben but incomplete
State of Exception |
6. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 228
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(1998-04-01)
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La Nuda Vita
Agamben on the Politics of "Life"
Nothing Interesting
Interesting thesis, but...
"Homo Sacer" and the Problem with the Ancient Model |
7. The Signature of All Things: On Method by Giorgio Agamben | |
Hardcover: 150
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(2009-12-31)
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Method(s) Before & Beyond `Science'
wonderfully suggestive but not well grounded |
8. Means Without End: Notes on Politics (Theory Out Of Bounds) by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 156
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(2000-10-13)
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Editorial Review Product Description An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life.A critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, this book builds on the previous work of the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben to address the status and nature of politics itself. Bringing politics face-to-face with its own failures of consciousness and consequence, Agamben frames his analysis in terms of clear contemporary relevance. He proposes, in his characteristically allusive and intriguing way, a politics of gesture-a politics of means without end. Among the topics Agamben takes up are the "properly" political paradigms of experience, as well as those generally not viewed as political. He begins by elaborating work on biopower begun by Foucault, returning the natural life of humans to the center of the polis and considering it as the very basis for politics. He then considers subjects such as the state of exception (the temporary suspension of the juridical order); the concentration camp (a zone of indifference between public and private and, at the same time, the secret matrix of the political space in which we live); the refugee, who, breaking the bond between the human and the citizen, moves from marginal status to the center of the crisis of the modern nation-state; and the sphere of pure means or gestures (those gestures that, remaining nothing more than means, liberate themselves from any relation to ends) as the proper sphere of politics. Attentive to the urgent demands of the political moment, as well as to the bankruptcy of political discourse, Agamben's work brings politics back to life, and life back to politics. Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the Collge International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is the author of Language and Death (1991), Stanzas (1992), and The Coming Community (1993), all published by the University of Minnesota Press. Vincenzo Binetti is assistant professor of Romance languages and literature at the University of Michigan. Cesare Casarino teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. Theory Out of Bounds Series, volume 20 Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press Customer Reviews (1)
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9. The Open: Man and Animal by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 120
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(2003-10-23)
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3 1/2 stars is more apt for a half-way amazing book
erudition as art as thought as action The title refers to Heidegger's term for the possibility of Dasein but Agamben is not doing a pro-Heidegger critique here. The Italian is thinking against the German: Agamben mentions that Heidegger was in fact the harshest separator of man and animal in modern thought, denying animals the very possibility of ever seeing the OFFEN (Open) that is (supposedly) available to man alone. But forget Heidegger--the book's not about him. Agamben questions the very ground of Western thought that made it possible for Marty to make such an inhumane declaration at all. Agamben's meditation begins with a medieval illustration that depicts the world after the end of the world (post-judgment) in which all the Saved are shown with various animal heads. Agamben wants to know what to make of this strange, unexplained overlapping of man and animal. I was startled to learn how seemingly silly hair-splitting arguments of the theologians concerning the resurrected body could be so consequential later in the modern age in the formulation (and separation) of man and animal. An example: Would the intestines of the resurrected be full or empty? If full, then what to do about the problem of excrement in the Kingdom of God? If empty, is it because they are no longer needed? And if that is the case, what have them at all? Etc. Agamben continues here what he began in his earlier works -- namely the meaning and consequence of NAKED or RAW LIFE, devoid of any qualifiers, such as "human" such that a "human" being becomes just a living thing. Having said all that, I must confess, one cannot possibly do justice to this book by summarizing Agamben's little molecules of thought, so compact and phosphorescent are they.
Great book |
10. Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience (Radical Thinkers) by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 167
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(2007-01-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description How andwhy did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible totalk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For WalterBenjamin, the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic ofmodernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. ForGiorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin’s complete works, thedestruction of experience no longer needs catastrophes: daily life inany modern city will suffice. Agamben'sprofound and radical exploration of language, infancy, and everydaylife traces concepts of experience through Kant, Hegel, Husserl andBenveniste. In doing so he elaborates a theory of infancy that throwsnew light on a number of major themes in contemporary thought: theanthropological opposition between nature and culture; the linguisticopposition between speech and language; the birth of the subject andthe appearance of the unconscious. Agamben goes on to consider time andhistory; the Marxist notion of base and superstructure (via a carefulreading of the famous Adorno–Benjamin correspondence on Baudelaire'sParis); and the difference between rituals and games. Beautifullywritten, erudite and provocative, these essays will be of greatinterest to students of philosophy, linguistics, anthropology andpolitics. Customer Reviews (1)
Interesting but not urgent |
11. The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 216
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(2005-11-07)
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To make atheists into believers
Don't be misled...
Another Book on Paul |
12. Giorgio Agamben (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Alex Murray | |
Paperback: 168
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(2010-05-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory. His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to Guantanamo Bay and the ‘war on terror’. Alex Murray explains Agamben’s key ideas, including: 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. |
13. Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 328
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(2000-01-01)
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Potentialities and not Potential
On the Existence of Non-Being and more
Potenzia is the name of a Hyundai |
14. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 176
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(2002-01-01)
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Difficult to read, but worth it
lost-lacanian truly lost
Haunting, Captivating, Unspeakable |
15. "What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 80
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(2009-05-18)
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An expensive fireside chat
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16. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 228
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(1998-04-01)
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La Nuda Vita
Agamben on the Politics of "Life"
Nothing Interesting
Interesting thesis, but...
"Homo Sacer" and the Problem with the Ancient Model |
17. Idea of Prose (Suny Series, Intersections) by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 138
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(1995-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description In this book, thought seeks a new form, a new "prose." To this end, it brings into play the strategies of the apology, the aphorism, the short story, the fable, the riddle, and all those "simple forms" that are today no longer used, but whose task it has always been to bring about in the reader an experience, an awakening--rather than attempting to put forth a theory. It is only in this sense--insofar as thought contends with the exposition of an Idea--that the problem of "thought" becomes, in these "treatises," a poetic problem. These are little ideas or forms that, in their brevity, compress that which cannot in any way be forgotten, since according to the platonic admonition, it would be put in "the shortest possible measure." Customer Reviews (1)
might work for you |
18. Giorgio Agamben: Sovereignty and Life | |
Paperback: 296
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(2007-06-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description Giorgio Agamben has come to be recognized in recent years as one of the most provocative and imaginative thinkers in contemporary philosophy and political theory. The essays gathered together in this volume shed light on his extensive body of writings and assess the significance of his work fordebates across a wide range of fields, including philosophy, political theory, Jewish studies, and animal studies.The authors discuss material extending across the entire range of Agamben's writings, including such early work as Language and Death and more recent and widely acknowledged works such as Homo Sacer. Readers will find useful discussions of key concepts and theories in Agamben's work, such as sovereignty and bare life, along with more critical analyses of the political stakes and consequences of his theoretical and political interventions. |
19. Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben by Thomas Carl Wall | |
Paperback: 214
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(2010-07-16)
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20. El hombre sin contenido (Spanish Edition) by Giorgio Agamben | |
Paperback: 188
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(2010-03-30)
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