Giorgio Agamben: 33 books

Book cover of The Omnibus Homo Sacer
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of every major Western institution and discourse. This...
Book cover of The Use of Bodies
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016

Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies...
Book cover of Stasis

Stasis

Civil War as a Political Paradigm

by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015

We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks...
Book cover of What Is Real?
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana...
Book cover of Nacktheiten
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: German
Release Date: January 18, 2011

Das neue Buch von Giorgio Agamben umkreist in kurzen, literarisch-philosophischen Denkbildern den Körper in seiner Entblößung, in seiner Nacktheit: von der Bulimie zu den glorreichen Körpern der Heiligen, die weder essen noch lieben, von den verborgenen theologischen Implikationen der Nacktheit...
Book cover of Stasis

Stasis

Der Bürgerkrieg als politisches Paradigma

by Giorgio Agamben
Language: German
Release Date: November 24, 2016

In diesem vorletzten Band der ›Homo-Sacer‹-Reihe untersucht der weltweit bekannte und renommierte Philosoph Giorgio Agamben den Bürgerkrieg als politisches Paradigma. Zwei zentrale Momente der Geistesgeschichte stehen dabei im Mittelpunkt: Im ersten Teil widmet er sich dem griechischen Begriff...
Book cover of Pilatus und Jesus
by Giorgio Agamben, Andreas Hiepko
Language: German
Release Date: November 21, 2014

In seinem Essay untersucht Giorgio Agamben als Prozessbeobachter die bekannteste Gerichtsentscheidung der Menschheitsgeschichte. In der von Pontius Pilatus geleiteten Verhandlung über das Schicksal Jesu treten zwei elementare Prinzipien in Konflikt: Geschichte trifft auf Unendlichkeit, Urteil auf...
Book cover of The Kingdom and the Glory

The Kingdom and the Glory

For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government

by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011

Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it? In the early centuries of the Church, in order...
Book cover of The Highest Poverty

The Highest Poverty

Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013

What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating...
Book cover of Pilate and Jesus
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015

Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts, as a conflicted judge convinced of Jesus's innocence in the Gospels, and as either a pious Christian...
Book cover of Die Erzählung und das Feuer
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: German
Release Date: March 23, 2017

Was ist das Geheimnis der Literatur?Mit ›Die Erzählung und das Feuer‹ legt der weltbekannte Philosoph Giorgio Agambeneine Sammlung seiner neuesten Essays vor. Was steht in der Literatur auf dem Spiel? Was hat es mit dem "Feuer" auf sich, das die "Erzählung" verloren hat und...
Book cover of Das Abenteuer. Der Freund
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2018

Laut einer alten Legende wachen vier Gottheiten über die Geburt des Menschen : Daimon, Tyche, Eros und Ananke. Früher oder später hat sich ein jeder von uns mit ihnen auseinanderzusetzen. Diesen zwiespältigen Mächten ins Auge zu sehen, heißt, sein Leben als Abenteuer zu leben. Im Gang durch...
Book cover of Il sacramento del linguaggio

Il sacramento del linguaggio

Archeologia del giuramento

by Giorgio Agamben
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 24, 2014

Che cos'è il giuramento, qual è la sua origine, quale il suo scopo se esso sembra mettere in questione l'uomo stesso come animale politico? L'archeologia del giuramento che questo libro propone cerca di rispondere a queste domande. Attraverso un'indagine di prima mano sulle fonti greche e romane,...
Book cover of Démocratie, dans quel État ?
by Slavoj Žižek, Kristin Ross, Jacques Rancière
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2009

"Qu'est-ce qu'un démocrate, je vous prie ? C'est là un mot vague, banal, sans acception précise, un mot en caoutchouc." Cette question, ce jugement sans appel d'Auguste Blanqui datent d'un siècle et demi mais gardent une actualité dont ce livre est un signe. Il ne faut pas s'attendre...
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