Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sace

Published by Duke University Press 2005

Politics, Metaphysics, and Death

Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sace

Edited by: Andrew Norris
With contributions by: Thomas Carl Wall , Peter Fitzpatrick , Erik Vogt and Andreas Kalyvas

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386735

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A collection of essays by political theorists on Agamben's Homo Sacer.

Author / Editor information

Andrew Norris is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Reviews

“Politics, Metaphysics, and Death provides the most lucid and penetrating accounts available of the political thought of Italy’s most influential philosopher. Agamben’s engagement with the complex entanglement of modernity and the tradition, the contributors to this volume show, cannot be ignored by anyone who would face up to the demands now placed by politics on political theory.”—Frederick M. Dolan, author of Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics

“Andrew Norris and the contributors to this collection have not only performed extraordinary feats of textual exegesis but also produced a critical context and set of arguments with and concerning Agamben’s theory of sovereignty which will provide the starting point for all future study on his political thought.”—Thomas Dumm, author of A Politics of the Ordinary

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Living Dead Andrew Norris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Au Hasard Thomas Carl Wall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law Peter Fitzpatrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
S/Citing the Camp Erik Vogt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
The Sovereign Weaver: Beyond the Camp Andreas Kalyvas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Anagrammatics of Violence: The Benjaminian Ground of Homo Sacer Anselm Haverkamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Spacing as the Shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben Andrew Benjamin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Cutting the Branches for Akiba: Agamben’s Critique of Derrida Adam Thurschwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Linguistic Survival and Ethicality: Biopolitics, Subjectivation, and Testimony in Remnants of Auschwitz Catherine Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Supposing the Impossibility of Silence and of Sound, of Voice: Bataille, Agamben, and the Holocaust Paul Hegarty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Law and Life Rainer Maria Kiesow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
The Exemplary Exception: Philosophical and Political Decisions in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer Andrew Norris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
The State of Exception Giorgio Agamben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 320

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Published: July 11, 2005
ISBN: 9780822386735