Means without end : notes on politics / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare Casarino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-

Series:

Theory out of bounds ; v. 20.

Theory out of bounds ; volume 20

Standardized Title:

Mezzi senza fine. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. In this critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben builds on his previous work to address the status and nature of politics itself. Bringing politics face-to-face with its own failures of consciousness and consequence, Agamben frames his analysis in terms of clear contemporary relevance. He proposes, in his characteristically allusive and intriguing way, a politics of gesture-a politics of means withou

Contents:

Contents; Preface; PART: I; Form-of-Life; Beyond Human Rights; What Is a People?; What Is a Camp?; PART: II; Notes on Gesture; Languages and Peoples; Marginal Notes on Commentaries on the Society of the Spectacle; The Face; PART: III; Sovereign Police; Notes on Politics; In This Exile (Italian Diary, 1992-94); Translators' Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Originally published in Italy as Mezzi senza fine, copyright 1996, Bollan Boringhieri editore.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8166-8858-3

OCLC:

173240560