{"product_id":"politics-metaphysics-and-death-9780822335375","title":"Politics Metaphysics and Death","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of essays by political theorists on Agamben's Homo Sacer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePolitics, Metaphysics, and Death\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAllegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eA Politics of the Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Living Dead \/ Andrew Norris 1\u003cbr\u003e Au Hasard \/ Thomas Carl Wall 31\u003cbr\u003e Bare Sovereignty: \u003ci\u003eHomo Sacer \u003c\/i\u003eand the Insistence of Law \/ Peter Fitzpatrick \u003cbr\u003e S\/Citing the Camp \/ Erik Vogt 74\u003cbr\u003e The Sovereign Weaver: Beyond the Camp \/ Andreas Kalyvas 107\u003cbr\u003e Anagrammatics of Violence: The Benjaminian Ground of \u003ci\u003eHomo Sacer \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Anselm Haverkamp 135\u003cbr\u003e Spaceing as the Shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben \/ Andrew Benjamin 145\u003cbr\u003e Cutting the Branches of Akiba: Agamben’s Critique of Derrida \/ Adam Thurschwell 173\u003cbr\u003e Linguistic Survival and Ethnicality: Biopolitics, Subjectivication, and Testimony in Remnants of Auschwitz \/ Catherine Mills 198\u003cbr\u003e Supposing the Impossibility of Silence and of Sound, of Voice: Bataille, Agamben, and the Holocaust \/ Paul Hegarty 222\u003cbr\u003e Law of Life \/ Rainer Maria Kiesow 248\u003cbr\u003e The Exemplary Exception: Philosophical and Political Decisions in Giorgio Agamben’s \u003ci\u003eHomo Sacer\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Andrew Norris 262\u003cbr\u003e The State of Exception \/ Giorgio Agamben 284\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 299\u003cbr\u003e Index 301","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406038212951,"sku":"9780822335375","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822335375.jpg?v=1730494331","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politics-metaphysics-and-death-9780822335375","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}