Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer Series

A Critical Introduction and Guide

Bibliographic Data

ID23457338
AuthorsClaire Dickinson (0000-0002-9019-6013, corresponding author), Colby Dickinson
Year2022
Publication date2022-05-30
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGiorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer Series (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/edinburgh/9781474486699.001.0001
OpenAlexW4320074760
Open LibraryOL36441076M
ISBN9781474486699
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This short book delivers an overview of the most significant concepts and histories as presented in the Italian thinker Giorgio Agamben’s magnum opus, the nine-volume Homo Sacer series. In this celebrated work, Agamben provides a delicate and complex interweaving of his views on sovereignty, the state of exception, the Aristotelean distinction between potentiality and actuality, Pauline messianism, the boundary between the human and the animal, the task of inoperativity, the impossibility of stating the existence of language in words, the role of the oath in public and religious life, glory and liturgy, the form-of-life lived beyond all forms of law and a modal ontology of demand that reconceives of western philosophy entirely, among other themes. Helping alert readers to the importance of the series while also pointing toward the major implications which Agamben’s philosophy entails for politics, theology, economics, history, law and global philosophical trends, these accessible and introductory essays provide a guide for those looking to understand why this series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century.

Art · Epistemology · Glory · Immanence · Impossibility · Literature · Liturgy · Magnum opus · Messianism · Politics · Sovereignty · State of exception · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy

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