| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 200 pages) |
| Series |
Thinking politics |
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Thinking politics
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| Contents |
1. All's Well That Ends Well: Agamben's Comic Politics -- What is a Mood? -- Taking Leave of Tragedy -- Kafka and the Apparatuses of Tragedy -- Bucephalus -- The Limbo -- 2. The Sabbatical Animal: The Politics of Inoperativity -- The Worklessness of Man -- Inoperative Potentiality -- Glory -- Play and Profanation -- The Empty Throne -- Bartleby -- 3. Speaking the Unspeakable: Inoperative Language -- The Thing Itself -- The Voice -- Infancy -- Whatever Being -- Generic Universality -- The Thick of It -- 4. How to Play with the Law: Inoperative Statehood -- Biopolitics: Old or New? -- The Sovereign Ban -- State of Nature -- Abandoned Life -- Towards a Real State of Exception -- Form-of-Life -- 5. The Time of the End: Inoperative History -- The End of History Revisited -- The Workless Slave -- The Snob and the Messiah -- Destruction and Subtraction -- As Not -- Removing the Katechon -- 6. Outside of Being: Inoperative Humanity -- Problematising the Human -- The Anthropological Machine -- Boredom -- The Saved Night -- Being with Animals |
| Summary |
Tracing how the logic of inoperativity works in the domains of language, law, history and humanity, Agamben and Politics systematically introduces the fundamental concepts of Agamben's political thought and a critically interprets his insights in the wider context of contemporary philosophy. Agamben's commentators and critics tend to focus on his powerful critique of the Western political tradition in the Homo Sacer series. But this narrow focus serves to obscure the overall structure of Agamben's political thought, which is neither negative nor critical but affirmative. Sergei Prozorov brings out the affirmative mood of Agamben's political thought, focusing on the concept of inoperativity, which has been central to Agamben's work from his earliest writings. Key Features. The first critical introduction to focus on Agamben's political thought Shows Agamben's political thought to be primarily affirmative rather than critical Reads Agamben's politics in the context of his first philosophical works on ontology and ethics Covers all of Agamben's published work, introducing the full variety of themes and concepts he addresses |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages189-197) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- fast |
| Subject |
Political science -- Philosophy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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PHILOSOPHY -- General.
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Political science -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780748676224 |
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0748676228 |
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1306819768 |
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9781306819763 |
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9780748676248 |
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0748676244 |
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