The political ontology of Giorgio Agamben : signatures of life and power /

With the publication of The Use of Bodies (2016), Agamben's multi-volume Homo Sacer project has come to an end, or to paraphrase Agamben, has been abandoned. We now have a new vantage point from which to reread Agamben's corpus. Not only his method, but his political and philosophical thou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Primera, German Eduardo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Series:Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Paradigms, signatures, and philosophical archaeology
  • Language and being: the work of signatures
  • The paradox of sovereignty: bare life and its paradigms
  • The signature of power: economic theology, government and bare life
  • Neoliberalism, governmentality, and sovereignty: the lessons of the kingdom and the glory
  • The signature of life: the meaning of biopolitics
  • The politics of inoperativity: suspending the signatures of life and power.