Language and Death: The Place of Negativity (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

Language and Death: The Place of Negativity (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosophical systems of Hegel and Heidegger within the

Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

Coming Community, 1 (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

A contribution to contemporary philosophical and political thought, Agamben develops the concept of community and the social implications of his philosophical

The Open: Man and Animal (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

In The Open, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben examines the ways in which, throughout the history of Western culture, man has been distinguished from animal, and in his inquiry discovers that the human arises not from the conjunction of a natural, living body and a divine or rational

Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

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

Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

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

The Agamben Dictionary (Murray Alex)(Paperback)

This the first dictionary dedicated to the work of Giorgio Agamben, the radical Italian philosopher. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, it provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to his work, offering readers a range of clear and concise entries on all the key topics of

The Use of Bodies (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

The final volume in Homo Sacer, Giorgio Agamben's wide-ranging investigation of the foundations of Western politics and

What Is Philosophy? (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

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

Pulcinella: Or Entertainment for Children (Agamben Giorgio)(Pevná vazba)

The list of subjects that Giorgio Agamben has tackled in his career is dizzying--from the dangers of our current political moment to the traces of the distant past that inflect the culture around us today. With Pulcinella, Agamben is back with yet another surprising--and surprisingly

The Man Without Content (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself. He

Karman: A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

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

Agamben's Philosophical Trajectory (Kotsko Adam)(Paperback)

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 Agamben's political concerns emerged and

Homo Sacer Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

One of Italy's most original philosophers 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

On Agamben, Donatism, Pelagianism, and the Missing Links (Kaufman Peter Iver)(Paperback)

Peter Iver Kaufman shows that, although Giorgio Agamben represents Augustine as an admired pioneer of an alternative form of life, he also considers Augustine an obstacle keeping readers from discovering their potential. Kaufman develops a compelling, radical alternative to progressive politics by

The Adventure (Agamben Giorgio)(Pevná vazba)

Agamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger.An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and

State of Exception (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian

Nudities (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

Encompassing a wide range of subjects, the ten masterful essays gathered here may at first appear unrelated to one another. In truth, Giorgio Agamben's latest book is a mosaic of his most pressing concerns. Take a step backward after reading it from cover to cover, and a world of secret affinities

Profanations (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

Essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains.The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben

Democracy in What State? (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

'Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?' In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural

Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (McClellan William)(Pevná vazba)

Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces a critical turn in our reading of Chaucer. He argues that the unprecedented event of the Holocaust, which witnessed the total degradation and extermination of human beings, irrevocably

The Dynamics of the Language Classroom (Tudor Ian)(Paperback)

Traditionally, the classroom has been seen as a place where language learning takes place in a linear manner on a fairly predictable input-output model. Recent research, however, has portrayed the classroom as a complex environment which is influenced by a wide range of attitudinal and contextual

In Her Feminine Sign (Mikhail Dunya)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliant poetic exploration of language and gender, place and time, through the mirror of

What Is Real? (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that