Catastrophe and Redemption : The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben / Jessica Whyte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whyte, Jessica (Jessica Stephanie)

Series:

SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agamben, Giorgio, 1942---Political and social views.

Agamben, Giorgio.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A striking new reading of Agamben's political thought and its implications for political action in the present"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

""Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: On Catastrophe and Redemption""; ""Katechon, Antichrist, Messiah""; ""Flowers and Chains""; ""Chapter Outline""; ""Chapter 1: The Politics of Life""; ""Agamben and Foucault: On Biopolitics, Ancient and Modern""; ""Biopolitics and Sovereignty""; ""Biopolitical Being""; ""The Rights of Bare Life""; ""Hoping Merely Out of Stupidity""; ""Chapter 2: Politics at the Limits of the Law: On the State of Exception""; ""The State of Exception""

""Carl Schmitt: The Paradox of Sovereignty""""Presupposition and the Problem of Application""; ""The State of “Nature�""; ""Challenging the Normalization of the Exception?""; ""Chapter 3: If This Is a Man: Life after Auschwitz""; ""The Remnant Shall Be Saved""; ""The Danger""; ""Where Danger Is, Grows the Saving Power Also""; ""Chapter 4: “I Would Prefer Not To�: Bartleby, Messianism, and the Potentiality of the Law""; ""The Law Is a Dry Canal""; ""Aristotle and the Origins of Sovereignty""; ""Past Contingent""; ""Bartleby as Messiah?""

""Chapter 5: A New Use: On the Society of the Spectacle and the Coming Politics""""Paying Pilgrimage to the Commodity Fetish""; ""The Eclipse of Use and the “Dialectical Salvation of the Commodity�""; ""A New Use for the Self: The Global Petty Bourgeoisie and the Coming Community""; ""We Are Saved When We No Longer Want to Be""; ""Conclusion: Unemployment and the Ungovernable""; ""Notes""; ""Introduction: On Catastrophe and Redemption""; ""Chapter 1: The Politics of Life""; ""Chapter 2: Politics at the Limits of the Law: On the State of Exception""

""Chapter 3: If This Is a Man: Life after Auschwitz""""Chapter 4: “I Would Prefer Not To�: Bartleby, Messianism, and the Potentiality of the Law""; ""Chapter 5: A New Use: On the Society of the Spectacle and the Coming Politics""; ""Conclusion: Unemployment and the Ungovernable""; ""Bibliography""; ""Works by Giorgio Agamben""; ""Other Works""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781461951469

1461951461

9781438448541

1438448546

OCLC:

862746085