Catastrophe and Redemption
The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2013
223 pages
978-1-4384-4854-1 (ISBN)
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Offers a striking new reading of Agamben's political thought and its implications for political action in the present.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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978-1-4384-4854-1 (9781438448541)
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Jessica Whyte is Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is the coeditor (with Alex Murray) of The Agamben Dictionary.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Catastrophe and Redemption
Katechon, Antichrist, Messiah
Flowers and Chains
Chapter Outline
1. The Politics of Life
Agamben and Foucault: On Biopolitics, Ancient and Modern
Biopolitics and Sovereignty
Biopolitical Being
The Rights of Bare Life
Hoping Merely Out of Stupidity
2. Politics at the Limits of the Law: On the State of Exception
The State of Exception
Carl Schmitt: The Paradox of Sovereignty
Presupposition and the Problem of Application
The State of "Nature"
Challenging the Normalization of the Exception?
3. If This Is a Man: Life after Auschwitz
The Remnant Shall Be Saved
The Danger
Where Danger Is, Grows the Saving Power Also
4. "I Would Prefer Not To": Bartleby, Messianism, and the Potentiality of the Law
The Law Is a Dry Canal
Aristotle and the Origins of Sovereignty
Past Contingent
Bartleby as Messiah?
5. A New Use: On Society of the Spectacle and the Coming Politics
Paying Pilgrimage to the Commodity Fetish
The Eclipse of Use and the "Dialectical Salvation of the Commodity"
A New Use for the Self: The Global Petty Bourgeoisie and the Coming Community
We Are Saved When We No Longer Want to Be
Conclusion: Unemployment and the Ungovernable
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: On Catastrophe and Redemption
Katechon, Antichrist, Messiah
Flowers and Chains
Chapter Outline
1. The Politics of Life
Agamben and Foucault: On Biopolitics, Ancient and Modern
Biopolitics and Sovereignty
Biopolitical Being
The Rights of Bare Life
Hoping Merely Out of Stupidity
2. Politics at the Limits of the Law: On the State of Exception
The State of Exception
Carl Schmitt: The Paradox of Sovereignty
Presupposition and the Problem of Application
The State of "Nature"
Challenging the Normalization of the Exception?
3. If This Is a Man: Life after Auschwitz
The Remnant Shall Be Saved
The Danger
Where Danger Is, Grows the Saving Power Also
4. "I Would Prefer Not To": Bartleby, Messianism, and the Potentiality of the Law
The Law Is a Dry Canal
Aristotle and the Origins of Sovereignty
Past Contingent
Bartleby as Messiah?
5. A New Use: On Society of the Spectacle and the Coming Politics
Paying Pilgrimage to the Commodity Fetish
The Eclipse of Use and the "Dialectical Salvation of the Commodity"
A New Use for the Self: The Global Petty Bourgeoisie and the Coming Community
We Are Saved When We No Longer Want to Be
Conclusion: Unemployment and the Ungovernable
Notes
Bibliography
Index
