Giorgio Agamben

Broschiertes Buch

Stasis

Civil War as a Political Paradigm

Übersetzer: Heron, Nicholas

Beschreibung

Offers Agamben's genealogy of power in terms of political, philosophical and legal thought. This book investigates the genealogy of the strife between the Polis and its population with particular regard to the Greek concept of stasis and the strife with the commonwealth of Hobbes' Leviathan.

Autor

Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher, one of the most renowned thinkers of our time, taught at the IUAV University in Venice, Italy, and holds the Baruch Spinoza Chair at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Wallis, Switzerland. He previously taught at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is best known for his Homo Sacer series of publications interrogating the ideas of totalitarianism and biopolitics. Nicholas Heron is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland. He is the editor, with Justin Clemens and Alex Murray, of The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life (EUP, 2008), and the author of a forthcoming monograph entitled Liturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 139mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 98g
• ISBN-13: 9781474403078
• ISBN-10: 1474403077
• Artikelnr.: 42294277