Stanford University Press, 2011. - 328 p. ISBN: 0804760160, 0804760152 Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it? In the early centuries of the Church, in order to reconcile...
Stanford University Press, 2011. - 328 p. ISBN: 0804760160, 0804760152 Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it? In the early centuries of the Church, in order to reconcile...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. — 160 p. — (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). — ISBN10: 1503601641; ISBN13: 978-1503601642. What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their...
Stanford University Press Stanford California, 1998. - 110 p. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy’s most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has...
Albany: SUNY Press, 1995. — 152 p. — ISBN10: 0791423808; ISBN13: 978-0791423806 — (SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory) 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...
Albany: SUNY Press, 1995. — 152 p. — ISBN10: 0791423808; ISBN13: 978-0791423806 — (SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory) 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...
Transl. by Liz Heron. — London: Verso, 1993. — 150 p. — ISBN10: 0860916456; ISBN13: 978-0860916451 How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For...
Transl. by Adam Kotsko. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. — 120 p. — ISBN10: 1503605825; ISBN13: 978-1503605824 — (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) 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,...
Transl. by Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare Casarino. — Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2000. — 156 p. — ISBN10: 0816630364; ISBN13: 978-0816630363 — (Theory Out Of Bounds. Book 20) An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. In this critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context,...
Stanford University Press, Stanford CA, 2011. — 128 p. Translators' Note Creation and Salvation What is Contemporary K. On the Uses and Disadvanteges of Living among Spectres O What We Can Nott Do Identity without the Person Nudity The Glorious Body Hunger of an Ox The Last Chapter of the History of the World
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2015. 96 p. ISBN10: 0804797315; ISBN13: 978-0804797313. We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's...
Transl. by Leland de la Durantaye. Photographs by Alice Attie. — London: Seagull Books, 2012. — 64 p. — ISBN10: 9780857420244; ISBN13: 978-0857420244. Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and...
Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 1993. — 120 p. — ISBN10: 0816622353; ISBN13: 978-0816622351 — (Theory Out of Bounds, Vol. 1) Unquestionably an influential thinker in Italy today, Giorgio Agamben has contributed to some of the most vital philosophical debates of our time. "The Coming Community" is an indispensable addition to the body of his work. How can we conceive...
Transl. by Daniel Heller-Roazen. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. — 168 p. — ISBN10: 0804730229; ISBN13: 978-0804730228 — (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking — nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and...
Transl. by Daniel Heller-Roazen. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. — 168 p. — ISBN10: 0804730229; ISBN13: 978-0804730228 — (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking — nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and...
Transl. by Daniel Heller-Roazen. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. — 168 p. — (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). — ISBN10: 0804730229; ISBN13: 978-0804730228. This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking — nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language...
Lorenzo Cheisa (tr.) — Stanford University Press, 2011. — 328 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8047-6015-7. Thunder and lighting. Enter [two] witches: Carl Schmitt and a (now obscure) German catholic theologian, Erik Peterson, who in 1935 wrote a book aimed at demonstrating that catholic jurist Schmitt's idea of political theology had no grounding whatsoever in christian theology, because...
Transl. by Georgia Albert. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. — 148 p. — ISBN10: 0804735549; ISBN13: 978-0804735544 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...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. — 1336 p. — ISBN10: 1503603059; ISBN13: 978-1503603059 — (Crossing Aesthetics) Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of...
Transl. by Kevin Attell. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. — 120 p. — ISBN10: 0804747385; ISBN13: 978-0804747387 — (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) The end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both messianics and dialecticians. But who is the protagonist of that history that is coming — or has come — to a close? What is man? How did he...
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...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009 — 80 p. — ISBN10: 0804762309; ISBN13: 978-0804762304. Translated by David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella. The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a...
Transl. by Lorenzo Chiesa. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. — 136 p. — ISBN10: 1503602214; ISBN13: 978-1503602212 — (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) 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,...
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