Giorgio Agamben : a critical introduction / Leland de la Durantaye.

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.