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Agamben and Politics : a Critical Introduction

By AGAMBEN , Sergei , Giorgio; Prozorov

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0748676201, 978-0-7486-7620-0, 978-0-7486-7621-7, 074867621X, 978-0-7486-7622-4, 978-0-7486-7624-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
776 kB (794773 bytes)
Series
Thinking politics (Edinburgh Scotland)
Edition
1
Pages
200\209
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Tracing how the logic of inoperativity works in the domains of language, law, history and humanity, Agamben and Politics systematically introduces the fundamental concepts of Agamben's political thought and a critically interprets his insights in the wider context of contemporary philosophy. Agamben's commentators and critics tend to focus on his powerful critique of the Western political tradition in the Homo Sacer series. But this narrow focus serves to obscure the overall structure of Agamben's political thought, which is neither negative nor critical but affirmative. Sergei Prozorov brings out the affirmative mood of Agamben's political thought, focusing on the concept of inoperativity, which has been central to Agamben's work from his earliest writings

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