Giorgio Agamben :
De la Durantaye, Leland.
Giorgio Agamben : a critical introduction / Leland de la Durantaye. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009. - xx, 463 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780804761420 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804761426 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804761437 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0804761434 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2008037590
Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
Philosophy, Italian--20th century.
B3611.A44 / D4 2009
Giorgio Agamben : a critical introduction / Leland de la Durantaye. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009. - xx, 463 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780804761420 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804761426 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804761437 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0804761434 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2008037590
Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
Philosophy, Italian--20th century.
B3611.A44 / D4 2009