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Book SynopsisA collection of essays by political theorists on Agamben's Homo Sacer.
Trade Review“
Politics, Metaphysics, and Death provides the most lucid and penetrating accounts available of the political thought of Italy’s most influential philosopher. Agamben’s engagement with the complex entanglement of modernity and the tradition, the contributors to this volume show, cannot be ignored by anyone who would face up to the demands now placed by politics on political theory.”—Frederick M. Dolan, author of
Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics“Andrew Norris and the contributors to this collection have not only performed extraordinary feats of textual exegesis but also produced a critical context and set of arguments with and concerning Agamben’s theory of sovereignty which will provide the starting point for all future study on his political thought.”—Thomas Dumm, author of
A Politics of the OrdinaryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii
Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Living Dead / Andrew Norris 1
Au Hasard / Thomas Carl Wall 31
Bare Sovereignty:
Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law / Peter Fitzpatrick
S/Citing the Camp / Erik Vogt 74
The Sovereign Weaver: Beyond the Camp / Andreas Kalyvas 107
Anagrammatics of Violence: The Benjaminian Ground of
Homo Sacer / Anselm Haverkamp 135
Spaceing as the Shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben / Andrew Benjamin 145
Cutting the Branches of Akiba: Agamben’s Critique of Derrida / Adam Thurschwell 173
Linguistic Survival and Ethnicality: Biopolitics, Subjectivication, and Testimony in Remnants of Auschwitz / Catherine Mills 198
Supposing the Impossibility of Silence and of Sound, of Voice: Bataille, Agamben, and the Holocaust / Paul Hegarty 222
Law of Life / Rainer Maria Kiesow 248
The Exemplary Exception: Philosophical and Political Decisions in Giorgio Agamben’s
Homo Sacer / Andrew Norris 262
The State of Exception / Giorgio Agamben 284
Contributors 299
Index 301
