Agamben Giorgio. The Use of Bodies

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016 — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0804798400; ISBN13: 978-0804798402.Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies represents the ninth and final volume in this twenty-year undertaking, breaking considerable new ground while clarifying the stakes and implications of the project as a whole. It comprises three major sections. The first uses Aristotle's discussion of slavery as a starting point for radically rethinking notions of selfhood; the second calls for a complete reworking of Western ontology; and the third explores the enigmatic concept of "form-of-life," which is in many ways the motivating force behind the entire Homo Sacer project. Interwoven between these major sections are shorter reflections on individual thinkers (Debord, Foucault, and Heidegger), while the epilogue pushes toward a new approach to political life that breaks with the destructive deadlocks of Western thought.The use of bodiesThe Human Being without Work
Chresis
Use and Care
The Use of the World
Use-of-Oneself
Habitual Use
The Animate Instrument and Technology
The InappropriableIntermezzo IAn archeology of ontologyOntological Apparatus
Theory of Hypostases
Toward a Modal OntologyIntermezzo IIForm of lifeLife Divided
A Life Inseparable from Irs Form
Living Contemplation
Life Is a Form Generated by Living
Toward an Ontology of Style
Exile of One Alone with One Alone
"That's How We Do It"
Work and Inoperativity
The Myth of ErEpilogue: Toward a Theory of Destituent Potential