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The figure of this world : Agamben and the question of political ontology /
What if we've been wrong when reading Agamben? The work of the Italian Continental philosopher Giorgio Agamben is usually read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. Now Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben's thought has been widely misunderstood. Instead, he shows t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Crosscurrents (Edinburgh University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What if we've been wrong when reading Agamben? The work of the Italian Continental philosopher Giorgio Agamben is usually read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. Now Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben's thought has been widely misunderstood. Instead, he shows that it engages with political ontology: studying the political stakes of the question of being. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1306465338 9781306465335 9780748684106 0748684107 9780748684090 0748684093 |