Giorgio Agamben : a critical introduction /
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| Author / Creator: | De la Durantaye, Leland. |
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| Imprint: | Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | xx, 463 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7725786 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the idea of potentiality
- Art for art's sake : the destruction of aesthetics and The man without content
- A general science of the human : Stanzas : word and phantasm in western culture
- A critique of the dialectic : Infancy and history : the destruction of experience
- The pure potentiality of representation : Idea of prose
- From spectacle to shekinah : The coming community
- The potential of paradigms : Homo sacer : sovereign power and bare life
- The unique and the unsayable : Remnants of Auschwitz : the witness and the archive. Homo sacer III
- The suspended substantive : The open : man and animal
- The exceptional life of the state : State of exception. Homo sacer II.I
- The messiah, or on the sacred and the profane
- Conclusion : the idea of the work.