Mathew Abbott

Figure of This World (eBook, PDF)

Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology

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Produktbeschreibung

What if we've been wrong when reading Agamben? Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben's thought is misunderstood when read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. Instead, he shows that it engages with political ontology: studying the political stakes of the question of being. Abbot demonstrates the crucial influence of Martin Heidegger on Agamben's work, locating it in the post-Heideggerian tradition of the critique of metaphysics. As he clarifies it, Abbott links Agamben's philosophy with Wittgenstein's picture theory and Heidegger's concept of the world-picture, showing the importance of this for understanding - and potentially overcoming - the forms of alienation characteristic of the society of the spectacle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748684106
• Artikelnr.: 50217134

Autorenporträt

Mathew Abbott is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Ballarat. He completed his PhD at in philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has taught philosophy, film, aesthetics, and poetry at Sydney, the Australian National University, and the University of Canberra. He researches modern European philosophy, political philosophy, critical theory, and aesthetics.