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The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of modern sovereignty that he has developed in his multi-volume project Homo Sacer. Agamben insists that like the ancient sovereign state, the modern nation-state defines its power through what he calls "bare life" by deeming individuals outside the bounds of the political community and therefore not fully human. For Agamben, the concentration camp--in which inmates occupy a gray zone that blurs the distinction between life and death--represents the potential state of being for all of humanity. Engaging specifically with Homo Sacer, the essays in this collection draw out and contend with the wide-ranging implications of Agamben's radical and controversial interpretation of modern political life. The contributors include legal scholars, literary critics, political scientists, and philosophers.They consider Agamben's work not only in relation to his major interlocutors--Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, and Martin Heidegger--but also in light of the thought of other philosophers and writers, including Plato, Pindar, Herclitus, Descartes, Kafka, Bataille, and Derrida. The essayists' approaches and perspectives are varied, as are their ultimate evaluations of the cogency and accuracy of Agamben's arguments. This volume also includes an essay by Agamben--never before published in English--in which the philosopher considers the relation of Benjamin's Critique of Violence to Schmitt's Political Theology. Politics, Metaphysics, and Death is a necessary, multifaceted exposition and evaluation of the thought of one of today's most important political theorists. Contributors Giorgio Agamben Andrew Benjamin Peter Fitzpatrick Anselm Haverkamp Paul Hegarty Andreas Kalyvas Rainer Maria Kiesow Catherine Mills Andrew Norris Adam Thurschwell Erik Vogt Thomas Carl Wall



Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Living Dead / Andrew Norris 1
Au Hasard / Thomas Carl Wall 31
Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law / Peter Fitzpatrick
S/Citing the Camp / Erik Vogt 74
The Sovereign Weaver: Beyond the Camp / Andreas Kalyvas 107
Anagrammatics of Violence: The Benjaminian Ground of Homo Sacer / Anselm Haverkamp 135
Spaceing as the Shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben / Andrew Benjamin 145
Cutting the Branches of Akiba: Agamben’s Critique of Derrida / Adam Thurschwell 173
Linguistic Survival and Ethnicality: Biopolitics, Subjectivication, and Testimony in Remnants of Auschwitz / Catherine Mills 198
Supposing the Impossibility of Silence and of Sound, of Voice: Bataille, Agamben, and the Holocaust / Paul Hegarty 222
Law of Life / Rainer Maria Kiesow 248
The Exemplary Exception: Philosophical and Political Decisions in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer / Andrew Norris 262
The State of Exception / Giorgio Agamben 284
Contributors 299
Index 301

About the Author :

Andrew Norris is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.



Review :
"Politics, Metaphysics, and Death provides the most lucid and penetrating accounts available of the political thought of Italy's most influential philosopher. Agamben's engagement with the complex entanglement of modernity and the tradition, the contributors to this volume show, cannot be ignored by anyone who would face up to the demands now placed by politics on political theory."--Frederick M. Dolan, author of Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics "Andrew Norris and the contributors to this collection have not only performed extraordinary feats of textual exegesis but also produced a critical context and set of arguments with and concerning Agamben's theory of sovereignty which will provide the starting point for all future study on his political thought."--Thomas Dumm, author of A Politics of the Ordinary


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  • ISBN-13: 9780822335375
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sace
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0822335379
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jul 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Weight: 517 gr


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