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Giorgio Agamben (/ ə ˈ ɡ æ m b ə n / ə-GAM-bən, Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo aˈɡamben]; born 22 April 1942) is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-life (borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein) and homo sacer.
Giorgio Agamben is one of the leading figures in Italian philosophy and radical political theory, and in recent years, his work has had a deep impact on contemporary scholarship in a number of disciplines in the Anglo-American intellectual world.
Mar 7, 2018 · Giorgio Agamben (b.1942) is a philosopher of Italian origin who, since the World Trade Centre attacks in September 2001, has challenged the wide use of emergency measures for people control.
Jul 11, 2023 · How did Giorgio Agamben rethink contemporary politics, and what are the novel concepts he invented and made famous?
Jun 1, 2006 · This review essay examines in some detail Giorgio Agamben’s recent State of Exception, his third in a series of books that reconstruct sovereignty using a range of interdisciplinary and critical tools. Engaging with Agamben’s text on its own terms – rather than focusing on the potential deficiencies of an approach that eschews standard ...
Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception," has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states.
Jul 8, 2023 · This article begins with a discussion of Agamben’s philosophy of language, and its relation to his theorization of modernity. It then moves on to address his politics, and several key concepts in his political theory: the state of exception, homo sacer and bare life.
Giorgio Agamben (b. 1942) is one of the leading figures in philosophy and political theory. His unique readings of literature, literary theory, continental philosophy, political thought, religious studies, and art have made him one of the most innovative thinkers of our time.
Born in Rome in 1942, Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and influential figures in contemporary continental philosophy. Profoundly influenced by both Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin, he has been publishing books since L’uomo senza contenuto (The Man Without Content) was released in 1970. Through the 1970s, 1980s, and early ...
Sep 23, 2017 · Since it is within the pages of the more recent of these two books, The Highest Poverty, that Agamben provides his fullest treatment to date of the positive content of form-of-life – an undertaking announced in the book's subtitle – it will serve as the focus of this study. Two necessities.
