TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prozorov,Sergei
TI  - Agamben and Politics: A Critical Introduction 
T2  - Thinking Politics : THPO
SN  - 9780748676200
U1  - 320.092 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Politics
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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"
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748676224
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748676224
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748676224/original
ER  -