Giorgio Agamben by de la Durantaye, Leland -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Praise Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Agamben’s Works Preface: The Law of the Good Neighbor Introduction: The Idea of Potentiality CHAPTER ONE - Art for Art’s Sake: The Destruction of Aesthetics and The Man Without Content

The Original Stature of the Work of Art The Structure of Destruction Divine Madness Art as Art Original Status Rhythm, Structure, and Structuralism Danger and Rescue Construction and Destruction Tradition, Transmission, and the Work of Art The House in Flames Reception Scholium I: Benjamin and Heidegger, or Poison and Antidote Scholium II: The Potentiality of Art

An Ancient Enmity The Proximity of Poetry and Philosophy A Science Without Object The Melancholy Angel The Idea of Philology Nachleben, or Culture A Discipline of Interdisciplinarity The End of the Quest Scholium: On Erudition

Experience: From Poverty to Destruction Events and Experience Barbarism The Genealogy of Experience The Introduction of Infancy Time and History The Time of History The Message Bearers Progress and Revolution, or Empty, Homogenous Time The Time of the Now Dialectical Method, or The Prince and the Frog Scholium I: Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History, or The Floodgates of Enthusiastic Misunderstanding Scholium II: The Now of Knowability Scholium III: Kairos Scholium IV: Dialectics at a Standstill, or Means and Ends

CHAPTER FOUR - The Pure Potentiality of Representation: Idea of Prose

A Prisoner to Representations The Matter of Language Ethics for Heretics, or On Eliminating the Unsayable The Idea of the Enigma Scholium I: The Art of Citing Without Quotation Marks Scholium II: The Idea of Benjamin Scholium III: Reading What Was Never Written Scholium IV: The Storyteller

CHAPTER FIVE - From Spectacle to Shekinah: The Coming Community

The Idea of Community Whatever Singular Examples The Singular Scrivener Bartleby in China Spectacle and Shekinah Nihilism, or the Complete Consciousness of Language Scholium I: Jacques Derrida and Aher, or The Cutting of the Branches Scholium II: The Idea of Pornography Scholium III: Guy Debord, Strategy, and Political Ontology Scholium IV: On Hope, Redemption, and the Irreparable

CHAPTER SIX - The Potential of Paradigms: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Categories The Protagonist, or Law and Life Homo Sacer Arendt and Foucault, or Biological Life as Such and Biopolitics The Concentration Camp Foucault’s Example The Representative Power of the Concentration Camp, or Negri’s Objection Exemplary Places, or Critical Responses to Agamben’s Paradigmatic Method What Is a Paradigm? Provocation and Progress, or the Intimate Solidarity Between Democracy and Totalitarianism The Secret Connections Between Power and Potentiality Politics and Ontology Scholium I: Progress and Catastrophe, or Clear and Present Dangers Scholium II: Paradigm and Dialectical Image, or The Shadow of the Present

Survival in Auschwitz The Aporia of Auschwitz, or On Historical Knowledge The Contamination of Law, or Ethics The Game and the Grey Zone The Unique and the Unsayable The Incomprehensible Witness The Muselmann Bare Life and the Fabrication of Corpses The Resistance of the Muselmann, and the Critics Traumatic Temporality, or the Eternal Continuation of Auschwitz The Subject of Shame The Subject of Testimony The Archive Levi’s Paradox Scholium I: What Is a Remnant? Scholium II: On Genius, or Heidegger’s Poison and Benjamin’s Antidote Scholium III: Eternal Recurrence of the Same, or Nietzsche and the Potentiality of the Past

The Original Structure of the State of Exception The Real State of Exception Utopianism, Nihilism, and Agamben’s Critics The Idea of the Profane Scholium I: Adorno, Profanity, and the Secular Order Scholium II: Carl Schmitt, or Politics and Strategy

CHAPTER TEN - The Messiah, or On the Sacred and the Profane

Agamben’s Idea of Theology, or The Blotting-Paper and the Ink The Messiah The Profane Order How to Bring About the Coming of the Messiah

Conclusion: The Idea of the Work Notes Bibliography Index