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Agamben and politics : a critical introduction /

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. Ag...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prozorov, Sergei (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ. Press, [2014]
Colección:Thinking politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.