Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer Series A Critical Introduction and Guide
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2022
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781474486699
Publisert
2022-05-31
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Edinburgh University Press
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234 mm
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156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Engelsk
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248
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Biographical note
Colby Dickinson, Associate Professor of Theology, Loyola University, Chicago.
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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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781474486699
Publisert
2022-05-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
248
Forfatter