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The renowned philosopher and author of Homo Sacer continues his groundbreaking work with this examination of selfhood and Western ontology. Giorgio Ag...
This book consists of prose pieces that find a new form of expression for philosophy, an expression showing the inseparability of idea and prose--the ...
Sovereign Power and Bare Life
The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions ...
Man and Animal
In 'The Open', contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the 'human' has been thought of as either a distinct and s...
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...
Giorgio Agamben investigates two founding moments in the formation of European power in its struggle with its most dangerous enemy: internecine civil ...
The Epidemic as Politics
An on-the-spot study of the link between power and knowledge. โ Christopher Caldwell, New York Times Fear makes thinking harder. Yet there is an urg...
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 serie...
Agamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. An ancient legend identifi...
Collected Essays in Philosophy
This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays spanning more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher and author of State of Exceptio...
Notes on Politics
In this critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, the distinguished political philosopher ...
A rare autobiographical glimpse into the life and influences of one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. This book's title, Self-Portrait in the ...
On Method
Internationally renowned philosopher Giorgio Agambenโs bold redefinition of methodological inquiry into the human sciences The Signature of All Thin...
It is commonplace to consider taste as the organ through which we know beauty and enjoy beautiful things. Looking beyond this facade, the newest trans...
On the Destruction of Experience
How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a "dumb" experience? For Walter Benjami...
An Archaeology of Duty
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 ...
Essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains....
Oaths play an essential part in the political and religious history of the West as a 'sacrament of power'. Yet despite numerous studies by linguists, ...
For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government
"Originally published in Italian under the title Il Regno e la Gloria."...
A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans
Situating Paul's texts in the context of early Jewish messianism, this book is part of a set of critiques devoted to the period when Judaism and Chris...
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...
In his new collection of essays, Giorgio Agamben addresses the most urgent themes of his recent research....
In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanity's tru...
And Other Essays
What is an apparatus? was originally published in Italian in 2006 under the title: Che cos'รจ un dispositivo?; The friend was originally published in ...
An Archaeology of the Oath (Homo Sacer II, 3)
In The Sacrament of Language Agamben investigates the phenomenon of the oath, arguing that it points toward a fundamental experience of language that ...
The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism
The acclaimed Italian philosopher interrogates the concept of creation in art, religion, and economics in this collection of five essays. Creation and...
Word and Phantasm in Western Culture
"Stanzas" (which means "rooms" in Italian) is a blend of philology, the psychoanalysis of toys, medieval physics and psychology, and contemporary ling...
Unquestionably an influential thinker in Italy today, Giorgio Agamben has contributed to some of the most vital philosophical debates of our time. "Th...
A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture
The renowned Italian philosopher offers a penetrating analysis of judgment, guilt, free will, and society in this brief yet profoundly original treati...
Studies in Poetics
This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking--nothing le...
An engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts, a book unlike any other Agamben book. What can the senses of an attentive philosop...
Civil War as a Political Paradigm : Homo Sacer, II, 2
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Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life
The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture. W...
Or Entertainment for Children
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...
The acclaimed philosopherโs penetrating analysis of Pontius Pilate offers provocative and original insight into Western conceptions of judgment and ...
Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben
In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin's early essay 'Towards the Critique of Violence' (1921) has taken a central place in politico-phil...
"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 p...
The Myth and Mystery of Kore
This title is a book of three richly detailed treatments of the myth of Kore. Kore, also called Persephone and referred to poetically by the Greeks as...