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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782358303321

Autore

Clemens Justin

Titolo

The work of Giorgio Agamben : law, literature, life / / edited by Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron and Alex Murray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-7486-8901-X

0-7486-5244-2

1-281-94777-6

9786611947774

0-7486-3463-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

CI 7116

Disciplina

195

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Continental philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The enigma of Giorgio Agamben / Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron and Alex Murray -- K / Giorgio Agamben -- Integral actuality : on Giorgio Agamben's Idea of prose / Alexander García Düttmann -- the role of the shifter and the problem of reference in Giorgio Agamben / Justin Clemens -- 'Its silent working was a delusion' / Jessica Whyte -- Politics and poetics of divine violence : on a figure in Giorgio Agamben and Walter Benjamin / Arne De Boever -- Idea of poetry, idea of prose / Nicholas Heron -- The fading memory of Homo non sacer / Anton Schütz -- Soulblind, or On profanation / Thanos Zartaloudis -- Face to face with Agamben : or, the other in love / Julian Wolfreys -- Beyond spectacle and the image : the poetics of Guy Debord and Agamben / Alex Murray -- Dismantling theatricality : aesthetics of bare life / Barbara Formis -- Notes on media and biopolitics : 'Notes on gesture' / Deborah Levitt.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays seeks to explore Agamben's work from philosophical and literary perspectives  thereby underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy.