Consistently challenging, informative, and enlightening, the essays in this volume make a major contribution in situating Agambenâs thought in relation to existentialist thinkers and themes. They provide a bright new lens through which to view Agambenâs work.
- Kevin Attell, Cornell University,
Introduces Agamben as an existentialist figure who takes the philosophy in a startling new direction
Reveals the atheistic underbelly of Agamben's political theology
Opens new avenues of study by challenging Carl Schmitt's appropriation of existentialism
Contributors include Vanessa Lemm, Beatrice Marovich, Tom Frost and Lucas Lazzaretti
While Giorgio Agamben's work has not previously been categorised as existentialist, his work creatively repackages important existentialist themes in a politico-theological context. Divided into three sections 'Agamben and the Sovereign Exception', 'Agamben and the Death of God' and 'Existentialist Themes in Agamben' this collection challenges, complicates and reimagines Agamben's critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes including feminism and postcolonialism.
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Divided into three sections â 'Agamben and the Sovereign Exception', 'Agamben and the Death of God' and 'Existentialist Themes in Agamben' â this collection challenges, complicates and reimagines Agambenâs critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes including feminism and postcolonialism.
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Introduction: Agamben, Nothingness, ExistentialismMarcos Antonio Norris
Part I: Agamben and the Sovereign Exception
1. The Many Faces of a Hidden God: Agamben's Relations to Kierkegaard ReconsideredLucas Lazzaretti
2. Biopolitics and Probability: Modifications on Lifeâs WayVirgil W. Brower
3. Kierkegaard and the Figure of Form-of-LifeTom Frost
Part II: Agamben and the Death of God
4. The Death of God in Nietzsche and AgambenVanessa Lemm
5. Nietzsche, Heidegger and the End of Metaphysics in Agambenâs ThoughtColby Dickinson
6. Sartre and Agamben: Nothingness and the (Apparent) Death of GodJohn Gillespie
Part III: Existentialist Themes in Agamben
7. Death and the Negative in Agamben and BeauvoirBeatrice Marovich
8. Endless Ontology: Agamben and Sartre on DeathAndrew Welch
9. Destituent Potential and Camusâs Politics of RebellionTim Christiaens
10. Fanon, Decolonisation and the Being/Praxis RelationSusan Dianne Brophy
11. Dis/Belief in Agamben and de SilentioMarcos Antonio Norris
12. The Existential Situation and Christian Experience: Messianism and Eschatological SalvationDaniel Minch
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781474478786
Publisert
2023-05-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
G, 01
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet