Adam Kotsko
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 235928 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Adam Kotsko |
| PRENOMES | Adam |
| SOBRENOME | Kotsko |
| ASSINATURA | KOTSKO A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | North Central College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Neoliberalism’s Demons
This is an abridged translation of the chapter from Adam Kotsko’s Demons of Neoliberalism: On the Political Theology of Late Capital. The author examines the politicaltheological characteristics of neoliberalism, in which the free market appears at first glance to be devoid of any external interference, but in fact turns out to be the result of a political strategy of governance, enriching elites, humiliating racial and gender minorities, and cre…
Fragments
From Human Nature to Anthropogenesis
Agamben’s Entwicklungsfähigkeit
Review of Carlo Salzani, Agamben and the Animal (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022
Passing Orders
When demons come up in secular political discourse, it is normally in the form of a metaphor. To ‘demonize’ means to treat as an enemy and an outcast in the most exaggerated possible terms. Hence
Pilate and Jesus
The Use of Bodies
Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies represents the ninth and final volume in this twenty-year undertaking, breaking considerable new ground while clarifying the stakes and implications of the…
Neoliberalism's Demons
This book argues that neoliberalism must be understood as a system of political theology that claims to be founded on individual freedom but demonizes anyone who falls short of its impossible standards
Agamben's Philosophical Trajectory
Tracks how Agamben’s thought evolved in response to contemporary political and intellectual events Focuses on Agamben’s intellectual development Offers the first study of the complete Homo Sacer series Takes into account Agamben’s recently-published memoir Addresses the full range of Agamben’s thought on linguistics, poetics, politics and theology Giorgio Agamben has emerged as one of the most perceptive and even prophetic political thinkers of h…
Karman
What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology both transform into the paradigm for all of human life. In his search fo…
Creation and Anarchy
Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche , or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to govern through continuous creation, as it is for t…
American Politics in the Era of Zombie Neoliberalism
Adam Kotsko analyzes the current political conjuncture in the United States through the lens of political theology, which he understands as fundamentally a study of systems of legitimacy. From this perspective, the neoliberal order is not merely an economic or political order but also a theological one, centered on the axiomatic value of free choice and imbued with a faith in the market's judgment of our free choices. The system-wide effects of t…
Introduction
One of the greatest challenges Giorgio Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources that he draws upon in his work. His books, written in an elegant and refined style that is also extremely dense and almost elliptical, venture into fields as diverse as aesthetics, religion, politics, law and ethics, with an uncommon erudition that ranges from ancient sources to medieval, modern and contemporary works in vario…
Conclusion
Thus far, the contributors to this volume have considered the many and varied bodies of work that have left their mark on Agamben’s project. In this concluding chapter, I would like to take up one final body of work that Agamben must somehow account for, if only implicitly – namely, his own. The task is more difficult than it may sound, because Agamben is not nearly as self-referential as some major twentieth-century thinkers. Unless his habits c…
Antonio Negri
Agamben describes his posture as a reader as one of seeking a text’s Entwicklungsfähigkeit , or capacity for elaboration.1 In examining Agamben’s practices of reading, we can attend to the opposite phenomenon: the counter-elaboration that a text, in having being read by the philosopher, performs upon Agamben’s own thought. This reciprocal elaboration might constitute a paradigm for Agamben’s use of reading, according to his own idiosyncratic defi…
Giorgio Agamben. The Fire and the Tale . Trans. Lorenzo Chiesa. Stanford, Calif
Agamben's Philosophical Lineage
One of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work. This volume is a one-stop reference for clarifying Agamben’s relationship to the many figures he engages with, providing a wide range of articles by scholars with special expertise in Agamben and the figure in question. It covers his primary interlocutors, his more occasional and secondary points of referenc…
Agamben's Philosophical Lineage
A critical guide to the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, organised around the philosophers and thinkers he draws on and critiquesOne of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work. Looking at figures including Michel Foucault, St Paul, Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, this one-stop reference to Agamben's influences covers 30 thinke…
The Prince of This World
Calling upon us to rethink some of our most treasured contemporary values, this book shows where the Christian idea of the devil came from—and how it eventually took over Christian theology, turning God himself into the devil.
Agamben's Coming Philosophy
One of the many challenges for readers of Agamben’s sprawling and heterogeneous body of work is what to make of his increasingly insistent focus on theology. Agamben’s Coming Philosophy brings together Colby Dickinson, the author of Agamben and Theology, and Adam Kotsko, the translator of several of Agamben’s more recent theologically-oriented books, to discuss Agamben’s unique approach to theology—and its profound implications for understanding …
Agamben's Coming Philosophy
Genealogy and Political Theology
The sacrament of language
This book is a continuation of Giorgio Agamben's investigation of political theory, which began with the highly influential volume Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Having already traced the roots of the idea of sovereignty, sacredness, and economy, he now turns to a perhaps unlikely topic: the concept of the oath. Following the Italian scholar Paolo Prodi, Agamben sees the oath as foundational for Western politics and undertakes an expl…
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth
Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank, The Monstrosity of Christ
(2010). Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?. Political Theology: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 141-144
Genealogy and Political Theology
Agamben's Philosophical Trajectory
Tracks how Agamben’s thought evolved in response to contemporary political and intellectual events Focuses on Agamben’s intellectual development Offers the first study of the complete Homo Sacer series Takes into account Agamben’s recently-published memoir Addresses the full range of Agamben’s thought on linguistics, poetics, politics and theology Giorgio Agamben has emerged as one of the most perceptive and even prophetic political thinkers of h…
Karman
What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology both transform into the paradigm for all of human life. In his search fo…
American Politics in the Era of Zombie Neoliberalism
Adam Kotsko analyzes the current political conjuncture in the United States through the lens of political theology, which he understands as fundamentally a study of systems of legitimacy. From this perspective, the neoliberal order is not merely an economic or political order but also a theological one, centered on the axiomatic value of free choice and imbued with a faith in the market's judgment of our free choices. The system-wide effects of t…
Creation and Anarchy
Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche , or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to govern through continuous creation, as it is for t…
The Failed Divine Performative
That They Might Have Ontology
I begin with an attempt to discern the contours of the "debate" contained in the edited volume Theology and the Political: The New Debate. While the Radical Orthodox contributors are eager to critique those outside the fold, only two authors seem to talk back to them: Kenneth Surin and Mary-Jane Rubenstein. I agree with Surin's rejection of ontological hierarchy and Rubenstein's recommendation of Nancy's notion of "being-with," and I use their ar…
Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank, The Monstrosity of Christ
(2010). Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?. Political Theology: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 141-144
The sacrament of language
This book is a continuation of Giorgio Agamben's investigation of political theory, which began with the highly influential volume Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Having already traced the roots of the idea of sovereignty, sacredness, and economy, he now turns to a perhaps unlikely topic: the concept of the oath. Following the Italian scholar Paolo Prodi, Agamben sees the oath as foundational for Western politics and undertakes an expl…
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth
Genealogy and Political Theology
Agamben's Coming Philosophy
One of the many challenges for readers of Agamben’s sprawling and heterogeneous body of work is what to make of his increasingly insistent focus on theology. Agamben’s Coming Philosophy brings together Colby Dickinson, the author of Agamben and Theology, and Adam Kotsko, the translator of several of Agamben’s more recent theologically-oriented books, to discuss Agamben’s unique approach to theology—and its profound implications for understanding …
Agamben's Coming Philosophy
The Prince of This World
Calling upon us to rethink some of our most treasured contemporary values, this book shows where the Christian idea of the devil came from—and how it eventually took over Christian theology, turning God himself into the devil.
Agamben's Philosophical Lineage
One of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work. This volume is a one-stop reference for clarifying Agamben’s relationship to the many figures he engages with, providing a wide range of articles by scholars with special expertise in Agamben and the figure in question. It covers his primary interlocutors, his more occasional and secondary points of referenc…
Agamben's Philosophical Lineage
A critical guide to the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, organised around the philosophers and thinkers he draws on and critiquesOne of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work. Looking at figures including Michel Foucault, St Paul, Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, this one-stop reference to Agamben's influences covers 30 thinke…
Introduction
One of the greatest challenges Giorgio Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources that he draws upon in his work. His books, written in an elegant and refined style that is also extremely dense and almost elliptical, venture into fields as diverse as aesthetics, religion, politics, law and ethics, with an uncommon erudition that ranges from ancient sources to medieval, modern and contemporary works in vario…
Conclusion
Thus far, the contributors to this volume have considered the many and varied bodies of work that have left their mark on Agamben’s project. In this concluding chapter, I would like to take up one final body of work that Agamben must somehow account for, if only implicitly – namely, his own. The task is more difficult than it may sound, because Agamben is not nearly as self-referential as some major twentieth-century thinkers. Unless his habits c…
Antonio Negri
Agamben describes his posture as a reader as one of seeking a text’s Entwicklungsfähigkeit , or capacity for elaboration.1 In examining Agamben’s practices of reading, we can attend to the opposite phenomenon: the counter-elaboration that a text, in having being read by the philosopher, performs upon Agamben’s own thought. This reciprocal elaboration might constitute a paradigm for Agamben’s use of reading, according to his own idiosyncratic defi…
Giorgio Agamben. The Fire and the Tale . Trans. Lorenzo Chiesa. Stanford, Calif
Pilate and Jesus
The Use of Bodies
Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies represents the ninth and final volume in this twenty-year undertaking, breaking considerable new ground while clarifying the stakes and implications of the…
Neoliberalism's Demons
This book argues that neoliberalism must be understood as a system of political theology that claims to be founded on individual freedom but demonizes anyone who falls short of its impossible standards
Agamben's Philosophical Trajectory
Tracks how Agamben’s thought evolved in response to contemporary political and intellectual events Focuses on Agamben’s intellectual development Offers the first study of the complete Homo Sacer series Takes into account Agamben’s recently-published memoir Addresses the full range of Agamben’s thought on linguistics, poetics, politics and theology Giorgio Agamben has emerged as one of the most perceptive and even prophetic political thinkers of h…
Karman
What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology both transform into the paradigm for all of human life. In his search fo…
Creation and Anarchy
Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche , or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to govern through continuous creation, as it is for t…
American Politics in the Era of Zombie Neoliberalism
Adam Kotsko analyzes the current political conjuncture in the United States through the lens of political theology, which he understands as fundamentally a study of systems of legitimacy. From this perspective, the neoliberal order is not merely an economic or political order but also a theological one, centered on the axiomatic value of free choice and imbued with a faith in the market's judgment of our free choices. The system-wide effects of t…
Passing Orders
When demons come up in secular political discourse, it is normally in the form of a metaphor. To ‘demonize’ means to treat as an enemy and an outcast in the most exaggerated possible terms. Hence
From Human Nature to Anthropogenesis
Agamben’s Entwicklungsfähigkeit
Review of Carlo Salzani, Agamben and the Animal (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022
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