Bøger af Giorgio Agamben

"Originally published in Italian in 2017 under the title Karman: breve trattato sull'azione, la colpa e il gesto."

In The Sacrament of Language Agamben investigates the phenomenon of the oath, arguing that it points toward a fundamental experience of language that lies at the root of religion and law alike.

A probing investigation of the trial of Jesus by noted Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.

A first step toward a viable theory of the manifold internal conflicts that afflict the world's populations today, this book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two crucial moments in the history of Western thought, in ancient Athens (from which the political concept of stasis emerges) and later, in the work of Thomas Hobbes.

This latest collection of texts, which focus on the "mystery" of literature, as well as on language as a laboratory for conceiving an ethical-political perspective that places us beyond sovereign power, offer a window onto Giorgio Agamben's most current research.

The final volume in Homo Sacer, Giorgio Agamben's wide-ranging investigation of the foundations of Western politics and culture.

In this book, Agamben investigates the roots of the modern moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy.

Arguing that Western power is both "government" and "glory," this book reveals the "theological-economic" paradigm at the origin of several of the most important components of modern politics and illuminates the function of consent and the media in today's democracies.

This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante.

This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up Giorgio Agamben's groundbreaking magnum opus.

Taking Benedict XVI's abdication as his point of departure, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben offers some reflections on the unresolved dialectics of political theology and the continued relevance of eschatological thinking.

In this book, Agamben investigates monasticism from its beginnings up through the Franciscan movement in an attempt to find a new form-of-life that escapes from the logic of Western politics as put forth in his Homo Sacer series.

* The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is one of the mostly widely read and influential philosophers and cultural theorists of the last decade. * This is a study of the 'oath' as a bond that ties together the law, citizens and the legislator.

In his new collection of essays, Giorgio Agamben addresses the most urgent themes of his recent research.

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.

"e;Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?"e;In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben traces the tense history of constitutions and their coexistence with various governments. Alain Badiou contrasts current democratic practice with democratic communism. Daniel Bensaid ponders the institutionalization of democracy, while Wendy Brown discusses the democratization of society under neoliberalism. Jean-Luc Nancy measures the difference between democracy as a form of rule and as a human end, and Jacques Ranciere highlights its egalitarian nature. Kristin Ross identifies hierarchical relationships within democratic practice, and Slavoj Zizek complicates the distinction between those who desire to own the state and those who wish to do without it.Concentrating on the classical roots of democracy and its changing meaning over time and within different contexts, these essays uniquely defend what is left of the left-wing tradition after the fall of Soviet communism. They confront disincentives to active democratic participation that have caused voter turnout to decline in western countries, and they address electoral indifference by invoking and reviving the tradition of citizen involvement. Passionately written and theoretically rich, this collection speaks to all facets of modern political and democratic debate.

At the heart of Pulcinella is Agamben's exploration of an album of 104 drawings, created by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) near the end of his life, that cover the life, adventures, death, and resurrection of the title character.

Brugen af kroppene er det afsluttende bind på Giorgio Agambens stort anlagte Homo Sacer-projekt, som har udfoldet sig over 20 år og adskillige bøger. Brugen af kroppene fortsætter projektet med nye og originale fortolkninger af den vestlige filosofi, samtidig med at implikationerne af projektet som helhed afklares. Bogen falder i tre hovedafsnit. Det første er helliget en analyse af slaveri hos Aristoteles som udgangspunkt for radikalt at genoverveje forestillinger om brug og selvet, som det forudgående værk, Den højeste fattigdom, tematisk slog an. Det andet hovedafsnit sigter mod en fuldstændig omarbejdning af vestlig ontologi; og det tredje udforsker det enigmatiske begreb livsform, som på mange måder er den motiverende kraft bag hele Homo Sacer-projektet. Mellem disse hovedafsnit er der indflettet kortere overvejelser om individuelle tænkere (Guy Debord, Michel Foucault og Martin Heidegger), mens epilogen aftegner en ny tilgang til det politiske liv, der bryder med den vestlige tænknings dødvande. Brugen af kroppene er et sandt mesterværk fra en af ​​vores tids vigtigste filosoffer.

Explores the symbiosis of philosophy and literature in understanding negativity.

Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's Letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the "messianic" abolition of Jewish law.

Kore, also called Persephone and referred to poetically by the Greeks as "the unspeakable girl," was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades and made queen of the netherworld. This title presents three richly detailed treatments of the myth of Kore.

Presents radical meditation on language and philosophy.

A contribution to contemporary philosophical and political thought, Agamben develops the concept of community and the social implications of his philosophical thought.

In "The Open", contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the "human" has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether.