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Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer Series A Critical Introduction and Guide

Dickinson Colby
Innbundet / 2022 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781474486699
Publisert
2022-05-30
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
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234 mm
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156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Innbundet

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Dickinson Colby

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Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Theological Poverty in Continental Philosophy: After Christian Theology (Bloomsbury, 2021), Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy: The Centrality of a Negative Dialectics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), Continental Philosophy and Theology (Brill, 2018), Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation (Fordham University Press, 2016), Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought (Bloomsbury, 2013), Agamben and Theology (T&T Clark, 2011). He is co-author of Agamben’s Coming Philosophy: Finding a New Use for Theology with Adam Kotsko (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). He is also the co-editor of The Challenge of God: Continental Philosophy and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Agamben and the Existentialists (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).

Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer Series A Critical Introduction and Guide

Dickinson Colby
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While Giorgio Agamben is the author of dozens of books spanning many decades, his most influential work and his true intellectual legacy is the monumental Homo Sacer project. In this book, Colby Dickinson provides not only an introduction to this multi-volume oeuvre, but more importantly, demonstrates its urgent relevance for understanding our contemporary world and the indispensable role of philosophy in critiquing and transforming it.

Adam Kotsko, North Central College

Reading a good book takes time, and this is one of these books that deserves time. It also deserves to be taken up again at a later moment to further develop insights. Even when the subject of the book is not directly linked to one's own research, it opens new perspectives. It can even pave the way for further exploration of certain topics already known to the reader rendering these topics both more complex and more insightful.

- Jens Van Rompaey, KU Leuven, Louvain Studies

In this celebrated work, Agamben provides a delicate and complex interweaving of his views on a wide range of themes including sovereignty, and the state of exception, the Aristotelean distinction between potentiality and actuality, through to the impossibility of stating the existence of language in words and the form-of-life lived beyond all forms of law.Requiring no prior knowledge of the text Colby Dickinson provides a guide to understanding why this series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century.
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Requiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson explains why Agamben’s Homer Sacer series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century. He unpacks key concepts including sovereignty, potentiality, form-of-life, the state of exception, inoperativity, glory and the messianic as they appear and reappear.
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Introduction: A brief outline of the Homo Sacer series Religious and political implications of the Homo Sacer projectThe fiction of sovereigntyOaths, language and the divine nameOn God and gods from the point of view of a modal ontologyAn ontology of demand On Aristotle, actuality and potentialityAristotle and the problem of ‘potency’Potentiality as a form of resistanceContemplation of the inappropriableDemand, memory and the place of thought Glory and the significance of political theologyKingdom, government and sovereigntyThe desire for orderSovereign glory Economy and its inoperativityThe bi-polar sovereignty of identitySubjects and the suspension of identityNew uses of the bodyMessianic or hypernomian The border between the human and the animalThe fiction of the human beingThe problem of anthropogenesisAnthropogenesis and metaphysics Paul and the messianic division of divisionA possible hermeneuticThe gesture of Pope Benedict XVITowards a negative dialecticDialectics at a standstillThe messianic and the future of dialectics A form-of-life beyond the lawThe temporality of fashion and artWhat is a form-of-life?Form-of-life as end goalMystery and desire Conclusions BibliographyIndex
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While Giorgio Agamben is the author of dozens of books spanning many decades, his most influential work and his true intellectual legacy is the monumental Homo Sacer project. In this book, Colby Dickinson provides not only an introduction to this multi-volume oeuvre, but more importantly, demonstrates its urgent relevance for understanding our contemporary world and the indispensable role of philosophy in critiquing and transforming it.

Adam Kotsko, North Central College

Reading a good book takes time, and this is one of these books that deserves time. It also deserves to be taken up again at a later moment to further develop insights. Even when the subject of the book is not directly linked to one's own research, it opens new perspectives. It can even pave the way for further exploration of certain topics already known to the reader rendering these topics both more complex and more insightful.

- Jens Van Rompaey, KU Leuven, Louvain Studies

In this celebrated work, Agamben provides a delicate and complex interweaving of his views on a wide range of themes including sovereignty, and the state of exception, the Aristotelean distinction between potentiality and actuality, through to the impossibility of stating the existence of language in words and the form-of-life lived beyond all forms of law.Requiring no prior knowledge of the text Colby Dickinson provides a guide to understanding why this series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century.
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Requiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson explains why Agamben’s Homer Sacer series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century. He unpacks key concepts including sovereignty, potentiality, form-of-life, the state of exception, inoperativity, glory and the messianic as they appear and reappear.
Les mer
Introduction: A brief outline of the Homo Sacer series Religious and political implications of the Homo Sacer projectThe fiction of sovereigntyOaths, language and the divine nameOn God and gods from the point of view of a modal ontologyAn ontology of demand On Aristotle, actuality and potentialityAristotle and the problem of ‘potency’Potentiality as a form of resistanceContemplation of the inappropriableDemand, memory and the place of thought Glory and the significance of political theologyKingdom, government and sovereigntyThe desire for orderSovereign glory Economy and its inoperativityThe bi-polar sovereignty of identitySubjects and the suspension of identityNew uses of the bodyMessianic or hypernomian The border between the human and the animalThe fiction of the human beingThe problem of anthropogenesisAnthropogenesis and metaphysics Paul and the messianic division of divisionA possible hermeneuticThe gesture of Pope Benedict XVITowards a negative dialecticDialectics at a standstillThe messianic and the future of dialectics A form-of-life beyond the lawThe temporality of fashion and artWhat is a form-of-life?Form-of-life as end goalMystery and desire Conclusions BibliographyIndex
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474486699
Publisert
2022-05-30
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Dickinson Colby

Biografisk notat

Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Theological Poverty in Continental Philosophy: After Christian Theology (Bloomsbury, 2021), Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy: The Centrality of a Negative Dialectics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), Continental Philosophy and Theology (Brill, 2018), Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation (Fordham University Press, 2016), Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought (Bloomsbury, 2013), Agamben and Theology (T&T Clark, 2011). He is co-author of Agamben’s Coming Philosophy: Finding a New Use for Theology with Adam Kotsko (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). He is also the co-editor of The Challenge of God: Continental Philosophy and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Agamben and the Existentialists (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).

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