Giorgio Agamben - Böcker

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 b...

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Finns det någon mening med att kalla sig "demokrat" i en samtid där praktiskt taget alla kallar sig demokrater? Kan ett begrepp som tycks kunna betyda både allt och inget fortfarande ha ett meningsfullt politiskt innehåll? I föreliggande...

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Samtidigheten skriver in sig i nuet genom att beteckna det som arkaiskt, och bara den som i det mest moderna och senaste förnimmer det arkaiskas indicier och signaturer kan vara samtida med det.

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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 in...

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I Vilken punkt har vi nått? analyserar den italienske filosofen Giorgio ¿Agamben de sociala och politiska effekterna av covid¿krisen. I tjugofem pregnanta kapitel skärskådar han ¿regeringarnas åtgärder och våra reaktioner på dem. Aldrig tidigare i...

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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 foundation...

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Med Homo sacer (1995) inledde den italienske filosofen Giogio agamben en serie böcker som undersöker den västerländska politikens fundament och som skulle göra honom till en uppmärksammad och kontrovesiell tänkare. Här leder han oss från en analys...

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An engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts, a book unlike any other Agamben book. What can the senses of an attentive philosopher see, hear, and learn that can, in turn, teach us about living better lives? Perhaps its less ...

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Sedan 2016 har tidskriften Subaltern kallat sig en tidskrift för politik och metafysik. Det kan framstå som en sammansättning av två oförenliga företeelser: Handlar inte politik om den konkreta, påtagliga verkligheten? Vad har politik då med metaf...

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A richly illustrated analysis from one of Europes greatest living philosophers. In Pinocchio, Giorgio Agamben turns his keen philosophers eye to the famous nineteenth-century novel by Carlo Collodi. To Agamben, Pinocchios adventures are a kind of ...

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Encompassing a wide range of subjects, the ten masterful essays gathered here may at first appear unrelated to one another. In truth, Giorgio Agamben's latest book is a mosaic of his most pressing concerns. Take a step backward after reading ...

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Unquestionably an influential thinker in Italy today, Giorgio Agamben has contributed to some of the most vital philosophical debates of our time. "The Coming Community" is an indispensable addition to the body of his work. How can we co...

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A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosop...

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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 accompan...

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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 schol...

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"Varje diskurs om erfarenheten måste i dag ta sitt avstamp i konstaterandet att det inte längre är möjligt för oss att göra en erfarenhet." Med dessa ord ¿inleder Giorgio Agamben titelessän i Barndom och historia , en bok som ursprunglig...

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How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a "dumb" experience? For Walter Benjamin, the "poverty of experience" was a characteristic of modernity, originating...

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Oaths play an essential part in the political and religious history of the West as a 'sacrament of power'. Yet despite numerous studies by linguists, anthropologists and historians of law and of religion, there exists no complete analysi...

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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...

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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 l...

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"Det vore sannolikt inte felaktigt att definiera den extrema fas av kapitalismens utveckling som vi i dag lever i som en gigantisk ackumulation och ökning av dispositiv. Förvisso har det funnits dispositiv ända sedan homo sapiens dök upp, men...

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One of Europes greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europes greatest poets, Friedrich Hlderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesnt living me...

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The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern phi...

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I mars 2009 blev Agamben inbjuden att tala i Notre-Dame katedralen i närvaro av biskopen av Paris och ett antal andra högt uppsatta kyrkliga tjänstemän. Hans tal, som här presenteras i svensk översättning, är en klarsynt analys av kyrkans historia...

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Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as we...

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Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a mili...

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Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a mili...

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"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 reconceiv...

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"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 reconceiv...

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