[Routledge Critical Thinkers 01] • Giorgio Agamben by Murray, Alex -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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ROUTLEDGE CRITICAL THINKERS CONTENTS SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WHY AGAMBEN?

TWO AGAMBENS? THE QUESTION OF LANGUAGE REPRESENTABILITY

KEY IDEAS 1 LANGUAGE AND THE NEGATIVITY OF BEING

AGAMBEN AND HEIDEGGER, A STARTING POINT READING LANGUAGE AND DEATH THE VOICE SUMMARY

2 INFANCY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD

INFANCY ARCHAEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD AGAMBEN AND DERRIDA SUMMARY

3 POTENTIALITY AND ‘THE TASK OF THE COMING PHILOSOPHY’

DIALECTICS WALTER BENJAMIN AND THE AGAMBENIAN METHOD AGAMBEN AND HISTORY INOPERATIVITY POTENTIALITY THE COMING COMMUNITY SUMMARY

4 POLITICS – BARE LIFE AND SOVEREIGN POWER

AGAMBEN AND FOUCAULT WHAT IS ‘BIOPOLITICS’? ZOĒ, BIOS, BARE LIFE THE LOGIC OF SOVEREIGNTY THE PRODUCTION OF HOMO SACER THE CAMP, REFUGEES AND THE POLITICS OF DEATH FIGURING BIOPOLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD THE WAR ON TERROR AND THE VIOLENCE OF THE STATE THE FIGURE OF THE REFUGEE BIOPOLITICAL TATOOING POLITICS AT THE ‘ECLIPSE’ SUMMARY

5 THE HOMELAND OF GESTURE – ART AND CINEMA

ART AND MODERNITY TOWARDS GESTURE: AGAMBEN AND WARBURG GESTURE AGAMBEN ON CINEMA SUMMARY

6 THE LABORATORY OF LITERATURE

POETRY/PHILOSOPHY/CRITICISM AGAMBEN AND KAFKA POETRY AND PROSE TOWARDS A POETICS SUMMARY

7 BEARING WITNESS AND MESSIANIC TIME

ETHICS AUSCHWITZ PROFANATION MESSIANISM SUMMARY

AFTER AGAMBEN

THE POLITICS OF READING AGAMBEN AGAMBEN, OUR CONTEMPORARY