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Meridian Crossing Aesthetics. Translation by Daniel Heller-Roazen of "Homo Sacer: Il potere sovrano e la nuda vita" (Einaudi, 1995). Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is new. viii/199 pages."The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of the individual within it.In "Homo Sacer," Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. Taking his cue from Foucault's fragmentary analysis of biopolitics, Agamben probes with great breadth, intensity, and acuteness the covert or implicit presence of an idea of biopolitics in the history of traditional political theory. He argues that from the earliest treatises of political theory, notably in Aristotle's notion of man as a political animal, and throughout the history of Western thinking about sovereignty (whether of the king or the state), a notion of sovereignty as power over "life" is implicit.The reason it remains merely implicit has to do, ...
Paperback / softback. New. One of Italy's most original philosophers aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. ISBN 0804732183 9780804732185 [GB]
California: Stanford University Press, Date: 1998. Softcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Trade paperback. 199pp. Ex-library stamps and sticker inside front wrapper and on preliminary pages, penned number on half-title, spine sticker, very good. 1998. Stanford University Press ISBN 0804732183 US
California: Stanford University Press, Date: 1998. Softcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Trade paperback. 199pp. Ex-library stamps and sticker inside front wrapper and on preliminary pages, penned number on half-title, spine sticker, very good. 1998. Stanford University Press ISBN 0804732183 9780804732185 [US]
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; One of Italy's most original philosophers aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysic ISBN 0804732183 9780804732185 [GB]
Paperback / softback. New. One of Italy's most original philosophers aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. ISBN 0804732183 9780804732185 [GB]
Stanford University Press, Date: 1998-04-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1998. Stanford University Press ISBN 0804732183 9780804732185 [US]
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