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The Figure of This World: Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology(Crosscurrents)

The Figure of This World: Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology(Crosscurrents)


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What if we've been wrong when reading Agamben? Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben's thought is misunderstood when read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. Instead, he shows that it engages with political ontology: studying the political stakes of the question of being. Abbot demonstrates the crucial influence of Martin Heidegger on Agamben's work, locating it in the post-Heideggerian tradition of the critique of metaphysics. As he clarifies it, Abbott links Agamben's philosophy with Wittgenstein's picture theory and Heidegger's concept of the world-picture, showing the importance of this for understanding and potentially overcoming the forms of alienation characteristic of the society of the spectacle.



Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; Introduction: The Figure of This World; 1. The Question of Political Ontology; 2. The Poetic Experience of the World; 3. The Myth of the Earth; 4. The Unbearable; 5. The Creature before the Law; 6. The Animal for which Animality is an Issue; 7. Understanding the Happy; 8. The Picture and its Captives; 9. The Passing of the Figure of This World; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author :
Mathew Abbott is Lecturer in Philosophy at Federation University Australia. He completed his PhD at in philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has taught philosophy, film, aesthetics and poetry at Sydney, the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. He researches modern European philosophy, political philosophy, critical theory and aesthetics.

Review :
Criticism of Giorgio Agamben’s work has tended to denigrate, or apologise for, its political dimensions. Where others have tried to isolate the 'political' in the homo sacer series, Mathew Abbott offers a brilliantly original reading of political ontology as the crux of Agamben’s work. Indispensable for anyone interested in Agamben, and contemporary continental thought more generally. Focusing on political ontology, The Figure of This World is one of the most intelligent readings of my thought and, insofar as it places it beyond any new epochal sending of being and any picture of this world, it is in some ways the most penetrating I could expect.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781474446310
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: Crosscurrents
  • Weight: 412 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1474446310
  • Publisher Date: 14 Nov 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology
  • Width: 156 mm


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