The Political Ontology of Giorgio Agamben
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-08136-9 (ISBN)
Rethinking the notions of life and power – two of the central themes in Agamben’s work – through a reconstruction of his philosophical method and an examination of his critique of Western metaphysics, this book argues that Agamben’s thought cannot be fully grasped if we do not account for the intertwining of politics and ontology.
This book argues that it is only by revisiting Agamben’s critique of signification and metaphysics and examining his reconstruction of the archaeological method that we can understand his notions of life and power. By bringing together the two parts of the Homo Sacer project – the archaeology of the signature of Sovereignty and the archaeology of governmentality – this book provides an analysis of the production of Agambenian 'bare life'. In this sense this project re-articulates Agamben’s works on signification, language and ontology with his archaeology of power.
Offering an original examination of Agamben’s notion of resistance, this is essential reading for any thoughtful consideration of his philosophical legacy.
German Eduardo Primera is Lecturer in Philosophy and Critical Theory in the School of Humanities, University of Brighton, UK.
Introduction: The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Life and Power
Chapter 1 Paradigms, Signatures, and Philosophical Archaeology
- The Idea of the Arche: The Moment of Arising
- On Paradigms: Between Singularity and Exemplarity
- On Signatures
- Philosophical Archaeology and Deconstruction
Chapter 2 Language and Being
-On the Linguistic- Metaphysical Machine in Agamben’s Thought
- The Isolation of the Improper: A Critique of Signification
- The Common and the Proper: How do Signatures Work?
Chapter 3 The Paradox of Sovereignty: Bare life and its Paradigms
- The Paradox of Sovereignty: Between Benjamin and Schmitt
- Bare Life and its Paradigms: On the Figure of Homo Sacer
-The Homo Sacer Project as Philosophical Archaeology
Chapter 4 The Signature of Secularisation: Economic Theology, Government and Bare Life
- An Archaeology of Economic Theology: Oikonomia and the Fracture Between God’s Being and His Action
- The Providential Machine: On the Collateral Effect as an Act of Government
- An Archaeology of Glory and the Production of Bare Life
- The Production of Bare Life and the Governmental Machine
Chapter 5 Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and Sovereignty: The Lessons of The Kingdom and the Glory
- Agamben and Foucault: Two Genealogies of Governmentality
- Neoliberalism: Rearticulating Sovereignty and Governance
-The production of bare Life and Neoliberalism
Chapter 6 The signature of Life, Biopolitics, and Inoperativity
- Foucault’s Notion of Life and the Enigma of Biopolitics
- The Signature of Life and the Biopolitical Machine
-Biopolitics and Philosophical Archaeology
Conclusion: The Politics of Inoperativity: Use, Modal Ontology and Destituent Power
-Profanation, Inoperativity and Deactivation
-The Use of Bodies: towards a theory of Use and a Modal Ontology
-Destituent Power and Resistance
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.04.2019 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 448 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-08136-1 / 1350081361 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-08136-9 / 9781350081369 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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