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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457641703321

Autore

Agamben Giorgio <1942->

Titolo

Means without end : notes on politics / / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare Casarino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

0-8166-8858-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Collana

Theory out of bounds ; ; volume 20

Disciplina

320/.01

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in Italy as Mezzi senza fine, copyright 1996, Bollan Boringhieri editore.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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