Giorgio Agamben : power, law and the uses of criticism / Thanos Zartaloudis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zartaloudis, Thanos, author.

Series:

Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-.

Agamben, Giorgio.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Criticism (Philosophy).

Justice (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism is a thorough engagement with the thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. It explores Agamben's work on language, ontology, power, law and criticism from the 1970s to his most recent publications. Introducing Agamben's work to a readership in legal theory, as well as in the humanities and social sciences more generally, Thanos Zartaloudis argues that an adequate understanding of Agamben's Homo Sacer project requires an attention to his earlier philosophical writings on language, ontology, power and

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Sacred foundations: mythologemes of law and power; Chapter 2 From transcendental sovereignty to neo-governmentality: the oikonomia of power; Chapter 3 Secular sovereignty: a gigantomachy over a void; Chapter 4 The biopolitical nomos of insignificant lives; Chapter 5 The sacrament of power and the sacrament of language; Chapter 6 The experience of potentiality; Chapter 7 The idea of justice; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-326) and index.

ISBN:

1-135-16675-7

1-135-16676-5

1-282-57184-2

9786612571848

0-203-85971-5

9780203859711

OCLC:

609856166