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1 online resource |
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Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Catastrophe and Redemption -- Katechon, Antichrist, Messiah -- Flowers and Chains -- Chapter Outline -- Chapter 1: The Politics of Life -- Agamben and Foucault: On Biopolitics, Ancient and Modern -- Biopolitics and Sovereignty -- Biopolitical Being -- The Rights of Bare Life -- Hoping Merely Out of Stupidity -- Chapter 2: Politics at the Limits of the Law: On the State of Exception -- The State of Exception |
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""Carl Schmitt: The Paradox of Sovereignty""""Presupposition and the Problem of Application""; ""The State of “Nature�""; ""Challenging the Normalization of the Exception?""; ""Chapter 3: If This Is a Man: Life after Auschwitz""; ""The Remnant Shall Be Saved""; ""The Danger""; ""Where Danger Is, Grows the Saving Power Also""; ""Chapter 4: “I Would Prefer Not To�: Bartleby, Messianism, and the Potentiality of the Law""; ""The Law Is a Dry Canal""; ""Aristotle and the Origins of Sovereignty""; ""Past Contingent""; ""Bartleby as Messiah?"" |
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""Chapter 5: A New Use: On the Society of the Spectacle and the Coming Politics""""Paying Pilgrimage to the Commodity Fetish""; ""The Eclipse of Use and the “Dialectical Salvation of the Commodity�""; ""A New Use for the Self: The Global Petty Bourgeoisie and the Coming Community""; ""We Are Saved When We No Longer Want to Be""; ""Conclusion: Unemployment and the Ungovernable""; ""Notes""; ""Introduction: On Catastrophe and Redemption""; ""Chapter 1: The Politics of Life""; ""Chapter 2: Politics at the Limits of the Law: On the State of Exception"" |
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""Chapter 3: If This Is a Man: Life after Auschwitz""""Chapter 4: “I Would Prefer Not To�: Bartleby, Messianism, and the Potentiality of the Law""; ""Chapter 5: A New Use: On the Society of the Spectacle and the Coming Politics""; ""Conclusion: Unemployment and the Ungovernable""; ""Bibliography""; ""Works by Giorgio Agamben""; ""Other Works""; ""Index"" |
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"A striking new reading of Agamben's political thought and its implications for political action in the present"--Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- -- Political and social views
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Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- fast |
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Agamben, Giorgio 1942- gnd |
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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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Political and social views
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Political science -- Philosophy
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Politische Philosophie
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781461951469 |
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1461951461 |
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9781438448541 |
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1438448546 |
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