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Agamben Giorgio <1942-> |
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Means without end : notes on politics / / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare Casarino |
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Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2000] |
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©2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (166 p.) |
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Collana |
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Theory out of bounds ; ; volume 20 |
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Political science - Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published in Italy as Mezzi senza fine, copyright 1996, Bollan Boringhieri editore. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; PART: I; Form-of-Life; Beyond Human Rights; What Is a People?; What Is a Camp?; PART: II; Notes on Gesture; Languages and Peoples; Marginal Notes on Commentaries on the Society of the Spectacle; The Face; PART: III; Sovereign Police; Notes on Politics; In This Exile (Italian Diary, 1992-94); Translators' Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. In this critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben builds on his previous work to address the status and nature of politics itself. Bringing politics face-to-face with its own failures of consciousness and consequence, Agamben frames his analysis in terms of clear contemporary relevance. He proposes, in his characteristically allusive and intriguing way, a politics of gesture-a politics of means withou |
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