The Work of Giorgio Agamben : : Law, Literature, Life / / Alex Murray, Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Clemens, Justin,; Heron, Nicholas,; Murray, Alex,
• MitwirkendeR: Agamben, Giorgio,; Clemens, Justin,; De Boever, Arne,; Formis, Barbara,; García Düttmann, Alexander,; Heron, Nicholas,; Levitt, Deborah,; Murray, Alex,; Schütz, Anton,; Whyte, Jessica,; Wolfreys, Julian,; Zartaloudis, Thanos,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Rok wydania: 2022
• Język: English
• Opis fizyczny: 1 online resource (224 p.)

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Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• The Enigma of Giorgio Agamben
• 1. K
• 2. Integral Actuality: On Giorgio Agamben’s Idea of Prose
• 3. The Role of the Shifter and the Problem of Reference in Giorgio Agamben
• 4. ‘Its Silent Working was a Delusion’
• 5. Politics and Poetics of Divine Violence: On a Figure in Giorgio Agamben and Walter Benjamin
• 6. Idea of Poetry, Idea of Prose
• 7. The Fading Memory of Homo non Sacer
• 8. Soulblind, or On Profanation
• 9. Face to Face with Agamben; or, the Other in Love
• 10. Beyond Spectacle and the Image: the Poetics of Guy Debord and Agamben
• 11. Dismantling Theatricality: Aesthetics of Bare Life
• 12. Notes on Media and Biopolitics: ‘Notes on Gesture’
• Index