{"product_id":"giorgio-agamben-9780804761437","title":"Giorgio Agamben","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA critical introduction to the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Leland de la Durantaye has not only offered an illuminating and provocative account of Agamben's most important work, he has also made this philosophical corpus appealing and accessible to a very broad audience—to all those interested in aesthetics, literature, ethics, and political theory. Carefully attuned to the multiple voices of Agamben's rich polyphony, in both a theoretical and historical sense, this book generously invites the reader to consider and reflect upon some of the most pressing issues in contemporary thought.\" -- John Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e\"[D]e la Durantaye's critical introduction for Stanford's increasingly impressive work in continental philosophy . . . assist[s] in clarifying why Agamben's philosophy deserves our attention . . . [de la Durantaye] shows a delicate touch in noting important conceptual connections many might overlook in the primary sources.\" -- Benjamin Hutchens * \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy in Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers of Giorgio Agamben have long yearned for a guide to his work. This book is just such a guide: comprehensive, erudite, reliable, up-to-date, accessible, and properly critical. Leland de la Durantaye traces meticulously the development of concepts and terms in Agamben's oeuvre and provides future scholarship with a sound footing.\" -- Wlad Godzic, University of California\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:Acknowledgments\tiii  Abbreviations\tiii  Preface: The Law of the Good Neighbor\tiii  @toc2:Introduction: The Idea of Potentiality\t0  @toc3:Scholium I: The Inoperative\t00  Scholium II: On Creation and Decreation\t00  Scholium III: Heidegger's Potential, or Creative Terminology\t000  @toc2:Chapter One: Art for Art's Sake. The Destruction of Aesthetics and The Man Without Content (1970)\t000  @toc3:Scholium I: Benjamin and Heidegger or Poison and Antidote\t000  Scholium II: The Potentiality of Art\t000  @toc2:Chapter Two: A General Science of the Human. Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture (1977)\t000  @toc3:Scholium: On Erudition\t000  @toc2:Chapter Three: A Critique of the Dialectic.\tInfancy and History: The Destruction of Experience (1978)\t000  @toc3:Scholium I: Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History, or The Floodgates of Enthusiastic Misunderstanding\t000  Scholium II: The Now of Knowability\t000  Scholium III: Kairos\t000  Scholium IV: Dialectics at a Standstill, or Means and Ends\t000  @toc2:Chapter Four: The Pure Potentiality of Representation. Idea of Prose (1985)\t000  @toc3:Scholium I: The Art of Citation Without Quotation Marks\t000  Scholium II: The Idea of Benjamin\t000  Scholium III: Reading What Was Never Written\t000  Scholium IV: The Storyteller\t000  @toc2:Chapter Five: From Spectacle to Shekinah: The Coming Community (1990)\t000  @toc3:Scholium I: Jacques Derrida, Rabbi Akiba, Aher and the Cutting of the Branches\t000  Scholium II: The Idea of Pornography\t000  Scholium III: Guy Debord, Strategy, and Political Ontology\t000  Scholium IV: On Hope, Redemption and the Irreparable\t000  @toc2:Chapter Six: The Potential of Paradigms. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1995)\t000  @toc3:Scholium I: Progress and Catastrophe, or Clear and Present Dangers\t000  Scholium II: Paradigm and Dialectical Image, or the Shadow of the Present\t000  @toc2:Chapter Seven: The Unique and the Unsayable. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. Homo Sacer III (1998)\t000  @toc3:Scholium I: What is a Remnant?\t000  Scholium II: On Genius, or Heidegger's Poison and Benjamin's Antidote\t000  Scholium III: Eternal Recurrence of the Same, or Nietzsche and the Potentiality of the Past\t000  @toc2:Chapter Eight: The Suspended Substantive. On Animals and Men in The Open: Man and Animal (2002)\t000  Chapter Nine: The Exceptional Life of the State. State of Exception (2003)\t000  @toc3:Scholium I: Adorno, Profanity and the Secular Order\t000  Scholium II: Carl Schmitt, or Politics and Strategy\t000  @toc2:Chapter Ten: The Messiah, or on the Sacred and the Profane\t000  Conclusion: The Idea of the Work\t000  @toc4:Notes\t000  Bibliogrpahy\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405579723095,"sku":"9780804761437","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804761437.jpg?v=1730492901","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/giorgio-agamben-9780804761437","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}