Politics, Metaphysics, and Death
Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sace
1st Edition
Published on 11. July 2005
320 pages
978-0-8223-8673-5 (ISBN)
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A collection of essays by political theorists on Agamben's Homo Sacer.
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Andrew Norris is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Content
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Living Dead / Andrew Norris 1
Au Hasard / Thomas Carl Wall 31
Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law / Peter Fitzpatrick
S/Citing the Camp / Erik Vogt 74
The Sovereign Weaver: Beyond the Camp / Andreas Kalyvas 107
Anagrammatics of Violence: The Benjaminian Ground of Homo Sacer / Anselm Haverkamp 135
Spaceing as the Shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben / Andrew Benjamin 145
Cutting the Branches of Akiba: Agamben's Critique of Derrida / Adam Thurschwell 173
Linguistic Survival and Ethnicality: Biopolitics, Subjectivication, and Testimony in Remnants of Auschwitz / Catherine Mills 198
Supposing the Impossibility of Silence and of Sound, of Voice: Bataille, Agamben, and the Holocaust / Paul Hegarty 222
Law of Life / Rainer Maria Kiesow 248
The Exemplary Exception: Philosophical and Political Decisions in Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer / Andrew Norris 262
The State of Exception / Giorgio Agamben 284
Contributors 299
Index 301
Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Living Dead / Andrew Norris 1
Au Hasard / Thomas Carl Wall 31
Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law / Peter Fitzpatrick
S/Citing the Camp / Erik Vogt 74
The Sovereign Weaver: Beyond the Camp / Andreas Kalyvas 107
Anagrammatics of Violence: The Benjaminian Ground of Homo Sacer / Anselm Haverkamp 135
Spaceing as the Shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben / Andrew Benjamin 145
Cutting the Branches of Akiba: Agamben's Critique of Derrida / Adam Thurschwell 173
Linguistic Survival and Ethnicality: Biopolitics, Subjectivication, and Testimony in Remnants of Auschwitz / Catherine Mills 198
Supposing the Impossibility of Silence and of Sound, of Voice: Bataille, Agamben, and the Holocaust / Paul Hegarty 222
Law of Life / Rainer Maria Kiesow 248
The Exemplary Exception: Philosophical and Political Decisions in Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer / Andrew Norris 262
The State of Exception / Giorgio Agamben 284
Contributors 299
Index 301
