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Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction by Leland de la Durantaye

Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction Leland de la Durantaye ebook
Page: 486
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0804761426, 9780804761420
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Leland Deladurantaye, Giorgio Agamben. Leland de la Durantaye is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English at Harvard University. In a detailed and penetrating analysis - the first of two parts - political theorist Andrew Robinson looks at the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, who posits that states are inseparable from concentration camps, building their sovereignty on a rejection of It can be understood through the history of forms of sovereignty and of legal concepts, and also through critically interpreting authoritarian pro-state theorists such as Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt. My first feeling upon getting the book is, "Damn! From now on, the history of metaphysics, stripped of critical archeology, shows a smooth continuity and reveals a sort of perverse anxiousness (according to Agamben) to play with and explore the operative principle of ethics and the concept of virtue as obligation and duty that medieval theology had granted it in heredity. DIVGiorgio Agamben is a philosopher well known for his brilliance and erudition, as well as for the difficulty and diversity of his seventeen books. In the McCarthy era of the 1950s, anti-Communism created an atmosphere of fear which allowed political actors to accrue greater powers over the American population. Leland de la Durantaye's new book, Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction finally arrived on my doorstep yesterday. Instead of just making it available for download on the internet, since it is a very short text and the afterword by Leland de la Durantye (author of Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction, 2009) does not really add much to it. He is the author of Style is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov (2007) and Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (2009). In an interview almost ten years. Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction. Relation to sovereign power and the concentration camps. Rendering absolute the duty of law would have been introduced by Pufendorf more than Hobbes (and this process concludes with Jean Dormat). (from GIORGIO AGAMBEN: A Critical Introduction, Leland de la Durantaye, 2009, p.