Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer Series : : A Critical Introduction and Guide / / Colby Dickinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Dickinson, Colby,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

Introduces the most significant concepts and histories in Giorgio Agamben’s central workThe first introductory text to Giorgio Agamben’s 9-volume magnum opus, the Homo Sacer series Unpacks Agamben's central concepts, introducing them to new readers of the series and adding nuance for readers more versed in Agamben's philosophyRequiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson explains why Agamben’s Homer Sacer is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century. He explores key concepts including sovereignty, potentiality, form-of-life, the state of exception, inoperativity, glory and the messianic as they appear and reappear throughout the series.In Homo Sacer, Agamben provides a delicate and complex interweaving of his views on a wide range of themes including sovereignty, and the state of exception, the Aristotelean distinction between potentiality and actuality, through to the impossibility of stating the existence of language in words and the form-of-life lived beyond all forms of law.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Religious and Political Implications of the Homo Sacer Project -- 2 On Aristotle, Actuality and Potentiality -- 3 Glory and the Significance of Political Theology -- 4 Economy and its Inoperativity -- 5 The Border between the Human and the Animal -- 6 Paul and the Messianic Division of Division -- 7 Form-of-Life beyond the Law -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index