STASIS

Civil War as a Political Paradigm

AvGiorgio Agamben

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Giorgio Agamben investigates the ongoing warfare that European state power has been waging against its most malignant enemy: civil war itself. The survival of the state is seen to depend on its ability to preserve the political community from factional enmity. Agamben investigates first the classical Athenian theme of ’stasis’ – the city’s struggle against internal revolt. He then turns to a new reading of Hobbes’ Leviathan and its approach to the peril of the early modern English Commonwealth’s exposure to civil strife, division and revolution. At the heart of this book is the issue of state powers in their continuous decline – an issue that is key to the renewal of political, philosophical and legal thought.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-07-07
Mått:138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt:212 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Encounters in Law & Philosophy
Antal sidor:64
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474401531
Översättare:Nicholas Heron

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Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher, one of the most renowned thinkers of our time, taught at the IUAV University in Venice, Italy, and holds the Baruch Spinoza Chair at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Wallis, Switzerland. He previously taught at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is best known for his Homo Sacer series of publications interrogating the ideas of totalitarianism and biopolitics. Nicholas Heron is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland. He is the editor, with Justin Clemens and Alex Murray, of The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life (EUP, 2008), and the author of a forthcoming monograph entitled Liturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology.