1st Edition
Giorgio Agamben Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism
By Thanos Zartaloudis
Copyright 2010
352 Pages
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Routledge-Cavendish
352 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
352 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
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Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism is a thorough engagement with the thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. It explores Agamben’s work on language, ontology, power, law and criticism from the 1970s to his most recent publications.
Introducing Agamben's work to a readership in legal theory, as well as in the humanities and social sciences more... Read more
1. Sacred Foundations: Mythologemes of Law and Power 2. From Transcendental Sovereignty to Neo-Governmentality: The Oikonomia of Power 3. Secular Sovereignty: A Gigantomachy Over a Void 4. The Biopolitical Nomos of Insignificant Lives 5. The Sacrament of Power and the Sacrament of Language 6. The Experience of Potentiality 7. The Idea of Justice
Biography
Thanos Zartaloudis researches and teaches at the School of Law, Birkbeck College of the University of London.
