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

• Autore: Agamben Giorgio <1942->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (166 p.)
• Disciplina: 320/.01
• Soggetto topico: Political science - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Means without end
• ISBN: 0-8166-8858-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457641703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Theory out of bounds ; ; v. 20.