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Agamben and Politics : A Critical Introduction / Sergei Prozorov.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Thinking Politics : THPOPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748676200
  • 9780748676224
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.092 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Expanded Contents List -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 All's Well That Ends Well: Agamben's Comic Politics -- Chapter 2 The Sabbatical Animal: The Politics of Inoperativity -- Chapter 3 Speaking the Unspeakable: Inoperative Language -- Chapter 4 How to Play with the Law: Inoperative Statehood -- Chapter 5 The Time of the End: Inoperative History -- Chapter 6 Outside of Being: Inoperative Humanity -- Conclusion An Optimist Against All Odds -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: A critical introduction to Giorgio Agamben's political thought that highlights its affirmative dimensionGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748676200','ISBN:9780748676217','ISBN:9780748676224','ISBN:9780748676248']);Tracing how the logic of inoperativity works in the domains of language, law, history and humanity, Agamben and Politics systematically introduces the fundamental concepts of Agamben's political thought and a critically interprets his insights in the wider context of contemporary philosophy.Agamben's commentators and critics tend to focus on his powerful critique of the Western political tradition in the Homo Sacer series. But this narrow focus serves to obscure the overall structure of Agamben's political thought, which is neither negative nor critical but affirmative. Sergei Prozorov brings out the affirmative mood of Agamben's political thought, focusing on the concept of inoperativity, which has been central to Agamben's work from his earliest writings.Key FeaturesThe first critical introduction to focus on Agamben's political thoughtShows Agamben's political thought to be primarily affirmative rather than criticalReads Agamben's politics in the context of his first philosophical works on ontology and ethicsCovers all of Agamben's published work, introducing the full variety of themes and concepts he addresses"
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Expanded Contents List -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 All's Well That Ends Well: Agamben's Comic Politics -- Chapter 2 The Sabbatical Animal: The Politics of Inoperativity -- Chapter 3 Speaking the Unspeakable: Inoperative Language -- Chapter 4 How to Play with the Law: Inoperative Statehood -- Chapter 5 The Time of the End: Inoperative History -- Chapter 6 Outside of Being: Inoperative Humanity -- Conclusion An Optimist Against All Odds -- Bibliography -- Index

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A critical introduction to Giorgio Agamben's political thought that highlights its affirmative dimensionGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748676200','ISBN:9780748676217','ISBN:9780748676224','ISBN:9780748676248']);Tracing how the logic of inoperativity works in the domains of language, law, history and humanity, Agamben and Politics systematically introduces the fundamental concepts of Agamben's political thought and a critically interprets his insights in the wider context of contemporary philosophy.Agamben's commentators and critics tend to focus on his powerful critique of the Western political tradition in the Homo Sacer series. But this narrow focus serves to obscure the overall structure of Agamben's political thought, which is neither negative nor critical but affirmative. Sergei Prozorov brings out the affirmative mood of Agamben's political thought, focusing on the concept of inoperativity, which has been central to Agamben's work from his earliest writings.Key FeaturesThe first critical introduction to focus on Agamben's political thoughtShows Agamben's political thought to be primarily affirmative rather than criticalReads Agamben's politics in the context of his first philosophical works on ontology and ethicsCovers all of Agamben's published work, introducing the full variety of themes and concepts he addresses"

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)