Giorgio Agamben: 33 books

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...

Der international bekannte Philosoph Giorgio Agamben beantwortet die Grundfrage der Philosophie Die Frage "Was ist Philosophie?" kann man erst spät stellen und nur mit Freunden erörtern. Giorgio Agamben umkreist sie daher in seinem Buch mit fünf emblematischen Essays zur Stimme, zum Sagbaren,...

«La fonte sacra è il solo romanzo lungo in cui James si serve di una voce narrante in prima persona […]. Leon Edel ha riassunto in due righe la trama del romanzo: “un acuto e ipersensibile osservatore passa un fine settimana in una casa di campagna studiando ciò che ritiene essere il modo in...

Jetzt neu: Band II.5 des Homo-Sacer-Projekts!Opus dei, das "Werk Gottes", bezeichnet in der Geschichte der katholischen Kirche die Liturgie als Vollzug des Priesteramtes Jesu Christi. Ihre Konsequenzen reichen weit über den Glauben hinaus und konstituieren ein ontologisches Paradigma, das...

What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their...

In attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its components: the phonemes, letters, syllables, and words that come together to make up the phrases and ideas...

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that...

In 2013, Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to resign from office. In this brief but illuminating study, Giorgio Agamben argues that Benedict's gesture, far from being solely a matter of internal ecclesiastical politics, is exemplary in an age when the question...

Der neue Band des Homo-Sacer-ProjektsWas wird aus der Regel, wenn sie im Leben restlos aufzugehen scheint? Und was aus einem Menschenleben, wenn seine Gesten, seine Worte und sein Schweigen von der Regel nicht mehr zu unterscheiden sind?In Fortschreibung seines groß angelegten Homo-Sacer-Projekts...

Neben seinen großen Büchern hat der international bekannte Philosoph Giorgio Agamben kleinere Texte und Essays verfasst, die ebenso nachhaltig die jeweiligen Diskussionen beflügelt haben. Die wichtigsten aus den letzten 20 Jahren hat er in einem Buch versammelt, das nun zum ersten Mail vollständig...

Opus Dei, «opera di Dio», è la definizione della liturgia secondo la dottrina della Chiesa cattolica. Riguarda l'esercizio del ministero sacerdotale, quanto di più separato, sembrerebbe, dalla prassi che governa le altre sfere della vita. Ma si tratta di una separatezza solo apparente, che racchiude...

The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have...

In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben traces...

"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political...