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Agamben and the Existentialists / Marcos Norris, Colby Dickinson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781474478779
  • 9781474478793
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  • 195 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Agamben, Nothingness and Existentialism -- Part I: Agamben and the Sovereign Exception -- 2. The Many Faces of a Hidden God: Agamben’s Relations to Kierkegaard Reconsidered -- 3. Biopolitics and Probability: Modifications on Life’s Way -- 4. Kierkegaard and the Figure of Form-of-Life -- Part II: Agamben and the Death of God -- 5. The Work of Art and the Death of God in Nietzsche and Agamben -- 6. Whither the Divine? Nietzsche, Heidegger and the End of Metaphysics in Agamben’s Thought -- 7. Sartre and Agamben: Confronting Nothingness and the (Apparent) Death of God -- Part III: Existentialist Themes in Agamben -- 8. Death and the Negative in Agamben and Beauvoir -- 9. Endless Ontology: Agamben and Sartre on Death -- 10. Destituent Potential and Camus’s Politics of Rebellion -- 11. A Politics Like No Other: Agamben, Fanon and the Colonial Fracture -- 12. Dis/Belief in Agamben and de Silentio -- 13. The Existential Situation and Christian Experience: Messianism and Eschatological Salvation -- Index
Summary: Introduces Agamben as an existentialist figure who takes the philosophy in a startling new directionReveals the atheistic underbelly of Agamben’s political theologyOpens new avenues of study by challenging Carl Schmitt’s appropriation of existentialismContributors include Vanessa Lemm, Beatrice Marovich, Tom Frost and Lucas LazzarettiWhile Giorgio Agamben’s work has not previously been categorised as existentialist, his work creatively repackages important existentialist themes in a politico-theological context. Divided into three sections – 'Agamben and the Sovereign Exception', 'Agamben and the Death of God' and 'Existentialist Themes in Agamben' – this collection challenges, complicates and reimagines Agamben’s critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes including feminism and postcolonialism.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Agamben, Nothingness and Existentialism -- Part I: Agamben and the Sovereign Exception -- 2. The Many Faces of a Hidden God: Agamben’s Relations to Kierkegaard Reconsidered -- 3. Biopolitics and Probability: Modifications on Life’s Way -- 4. Kierkegaard and the Figure of Form-of-Life -- Part II: Agamben and the Death of God -- 5. The Work of Art and the Death of God in Nietzsche and Agamben -- 6. Whither the Divine? Nietzsche, Heidegger and the End of Metaphysics in Agamben’s Thought -- 7. Sartre and Agamben: Confronting Nothingness and the (Apparent) Death of God -- Part III: Existentialist Themes in Agamben -- 8. Death and the Negative in Agamben and Beauvoir -- 9. Endless Ontology: Agamben and Sartre on Death -- 10. Destituent Potential and Camus’s Politics of Rebellion -- 11. A Politics Like No Other: Agamben, Fanon and the Colonial Fracture -- 12. Dis/Belief in Agamben and de Silentio -- 13. The Existential Situation and Christian Experience: Messianism and Eschatological Salvation -- Index

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Introduces Agamben as an existentialist figure who takes the philosophy in a startling new directionReveals the atheistic underbelly of Agamben’s political theologyOpens new avenues of study by challenging Carl Schmitt’s appropriation of existentialismContributors include Vanessa Lemm, Beatrice Marovich, Tom Frost and Lucas LazzarettiWhile Giorgio Agamben’s work has not previously been categorised as existentialist, his work creatively repackages important existentialist themes in a politico-theological context. Divided into three sections – 'Agamben and the Sovereign Exception', 'Agamben and the Death of God' and 'Existentialist Themes in Agamben' – this collection challenges, complicates and reimagines Agamben’s critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes including feminism and postcolonialism.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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