Agamben’s Philosophical Lineage

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One of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work. Looking at figures including Michel Foucault, St Paul, Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, this one-stop reference to Agamben's influences covers 30 thinkers: his primary interlocutors, his secondary references, and the figures who lurk in the background of his arguments without being directly mentioned. Introduction: Agamben as a Reader Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani Part I: Primary Interlocutors 1. Aristotle by Jussi Backman 2. Walter Benjamin by Carlo Salzani 3· Guy Debord by Dave Mesing 4. Michel Foucault by Vanessa Lemm 5· Martin Heidegger by Mathew Abbott 6. Paul the Apostle by Ted Jennings 7. Carl Schmitt by Sergei Prozorov Part II: Points of Reference 8. Hannah Arendt by John Crumley 9. Georges Bataille by Nadine Hartmann 10. Emile Benveniste by Henrik Wilberg 11. Dante Alighieri by Paolo Bartoloni 12. Gilles Deleuze by Claire Colebrook 13· Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel by Alysia Garrison 14· Friedrich Holderlin by Henrik Wilberg 15. Franz Kafka by Anke Snoek 16. Immanuel Kant by Susan Brophy 17. Friedrich Nietzsche by Vanessa Lemm 18. Plato by Mika Ojakangas 19. Plotinus by Marten Bjork 20. Marquis de Sade by Christian Grunnagel 21. Baruch Spinoza by Jeffrey A. Bernstein 22. Aby Warburg by Adi Efal-Lautenschlager Part III: Submerged Dialogues 23. Theodor W. Adorno by Colby Dickinson 24. Jacques Derrida by Virgil W. Brower 25. Sigmund Freud by Virgil W. Brower 26. Jacques Lacan by Frances L. Restuccia 27. Karl Marx by Jessica Whyte 28. Antonio Negri by Ingrid Diran 29. Gershom Scholem by Julia Ng 30. Simone Weil by Beatrice Marovich Conclusion: Agamben as a Reader of Agamben by Adam Kotsko