Description
Book SynopsisThis volume provides the first in-depth collection of essays aimed at critically examining the work of political philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
Trade Review"One cannot overstate the importance of Agamben's work or the wide respect it enjoys among scholars in a variety of disciplines in the United States and elsewhere. This volume contains valuable essays from a variety of prominent scholars, and is the only such collection available in any language."—Michael Hardt, Duke University
Table of Contents@fmh1:Contents @toc4:Preface xxx List of Abbreviations xxx Contributors xxx @toc1:On Agamben @toc2:The Work of Man 000 @tocca:Giorgio Agamben toc3:Sovereignty @toc2:Bare Life or Social Indeterminacy? 000 @tocca:Ernesto Laclau @toc2:The Complexities of Sovereignty 000 @tocca:William E. Connolly @toc2:Boundary Stones: Giorgio Agamben and the Field of Sovereignty 000 @tocca:Steven DeCaroli @toc2:Whatever Politics 000 @tocca:Jenny Edkins @toc2:From Sovereign Ban to Banning Sovereignty 000 @tocca:William Rasch @toc3:Life @toc2:Giorgio Agamben: The Discreet Taste of the Dialectic 000 @tocca:Antonio Negri @toc2:Approaching Limit Events: Siting Agamben 000 @tocca:Dominick LaCapra @toc2:Jamming the Anthropological Machine 000 @tocca:Matthew Calarco @toc2:Biopolitics, Liberal Eugenics, and Nihilism 000 @tocca:Catherine Mills @toc2:Agamben and Foucault on Biopower and Biopolitics 000 @tocca:Paul Patton @toc2:The Ontology and Politics of Exception: Reflections on the Work of Giorgio Agamben 000 @tocca:Bruno Gulli @toc4:Selected Bibliography of Giorgio Agamben 000 Notes 000 Index 000
