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  1. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life.Giorgio Agamben - 1998 - Stanford University Press.
    The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of the individual within it. In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of (...)
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    State of Exception.Giorgio Agamben - 2004 - University of Chicago Press.
    In this highly topical book, Agamben ultimately arrives at original ideas about the future of democracy and casts a new light on the hidden relationship that ties law to violence.
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    The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government.Giorgio Agamben - 2011 - Stanford University Press.
    Arguing that Western power is both "government" and "glory," this book reveals the "theological-economic" paradigm at the origin of several of the most important components of modern politics and illuminates the function of consent and the ...
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    Potentialities: collected essays in philosophy.Giorgio Agamben - 1999 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Edited by Daniel Heller-Roazen.
    This volume constitutes the largest collection of writings by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben hitherto published in any language and all but one appear in English for the first time. The essays consider figures in the history of philosophy (Plato, Plotinus, Spinoza, Hegel) and twentieth-century thought (Walter Benjamin, Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, the historian Aby Warburg, and the linguist J.-C. Milner). They also examine several central concerns of Agamben: the relation of linguistic and metaphysical categories; messianism in Islamic, Jewish, and Christian (...)
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    The Use of Bodies.Giorgio Agamben - 2015 - Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Edited by Adam Kotsko.
    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 project as a whole. It comprises three major sections. The first uses Aristotle's discussion (...)
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    Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life.Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, Giorgio Agamben & Daniel Heller-Roazen - 2000 - Substance 29 (3):124.
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    Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive.Giorgio Agamben - 1999 - Zone Books.
    In this book the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz, probing the philosophical and ethical questions raised by their testimony."In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essential lacuna; in other words, the survivors bore witness to something it is impossible to bear witness to. As (...)
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    The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans.Giorgio Agamben - 2005 - Stanford University Press.
    In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West.
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  9. The open: man and animal.Giorgio Agamben - 2004 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
    The end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both messianics and dialecticians. But who is the protagonist of that history that is coming—or has come—to a close? What is man? How did he come on the scene? And how has he maintained his privileged place as the master of, or first among, the animals? In The Open, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the “human” has been thought of as (...)
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    "What is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays.Giorgio Agamben - 2009 - Stanford University Press.
    What is an apparatus? -- The friend -- What is the contemporary?
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    Means Without End: Notes on Politics.Giorgio Agamben - 2000 - Univ of Minnesota Press.
    He proposes, in his characteristically allusive and intriguing way, a politics of gestureOCoa politics of means without end.Among the topics Agamben takes up are the properly political paradigms of experience, as well as those generally not ...
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    Profanations.Giorgio Agamben - 2005 - Zone Books.
    The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel, and film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the most provocative writers of our time. In ten essays, Agamben ponders (...)
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    The signature of all things: on method.Giorgio Agamben - 2009 - Cambridge: the MIT Press.
    What is a paradigm? -- Theory of signatures -- Philosophical archeology.
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    (2 other versions)Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm.Giorgio Agamben - 2015 - Stanford, California: De Gruyter.
    We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two crucial moments in the history of Western thought: in ancient Athens (from which the political concept of stasis emerges) and later, (...)
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    The Coming Community.Fran Bartkowski & Giorgio Agamben - 1997 - Substance 26 (2):125.
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    Language and Death: The Place of Negativity.Giorgio Agamben - 2006 - Univ of Minnesota Press.
    Explores the symbiosis of philosophy and literature in understanding negativity.
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    The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life.Giorgio Agamben - 2013 - Stanford University Press.
    What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book reconstructs in detail the life of the monks with their (...)
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    Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty.Giorgio Agamben - 2013 - Stanford University Press.
    In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben traces the Church's attempts to repeat Christ's unrepeatable sacrifice. Crucial here is the paradoxical figure of the priest, who becomes more and more a pure instrument of God's power, so that his own motives (...)
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    Infancy and history: the destruction of experience.Giorgio Agamben - 1993 - New York: Verso.
    How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a "dumb" experience? For Walter Benjamin, the "poverty of experience" was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin's complete works, the destruction of experience no longer needs catastrophes: daily life in any modern city will suffice. Agamben's profound and radical exploration of language, infancy, and everyday life traces (...)
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    The man without content.Giorgio Agamben - 1999 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
    In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation. He argues, however, that Hegel by no means proclaimed the 'death of art' (as many still imagine) but proclaimed rather the indefinite continuation of art in a 'self-annulling' mode. With astonishing breadth and originality, he probes the meaning, aesthetics, and historical consequences of that self-annulment. He argues that (...)
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    (1 other version)Coming Community.Giorgio Agamben - 1993 - Univ of Minnesota Press.
    Unquestionably an influential thinker in Italy today, Giorgio Agamben has contributed to some of the most vital philosophical debates of our time. "The Coming Community" is an indispensable addition to the body of his work. How can we conceive a human community that lays no claim to identity - being American, being Muslim, being communist? How can a community be formed of singularities that refuse any criteria of belonging? Agamben draws on an eclectic and exciting set of sources to explore (...)
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    Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism.Giorgio Agamben - 2019 - Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
    "The texts published here reproduce, with some variation, those of five lectures held at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture between October 2012 and April 2013.".
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    What is Real?Giorgio Agamben - 2018 - Stanford University Press.
    In this philosophical detective story, Giorgio Agamben reads the mysterious 1938 disappearance of atomic physicist Ettore Majorana as an intentional and decisive objection to how quantum physics had reduced the real to probability.
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    The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath.Giorgio Agamben - 2010 - Stanford University Press.
    In The Sacrament of Language Agamben investigates the phenomenon of the oath, arguing that it points toward a fundamental experience of language that lies at the root of religion and law alike.
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    Nudities.Giorgio Agamben - 2010 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Edited by David Kishik & Stefan Pedatella.
    Creation and salvation -- What is the contemporary? -- K. -- On the uses and disadvantages of living among specters -- On what we can not do -- Identity without the person -- Nudity -- The glorious body -- Hunger of an ox : considerations on the Sabbath, the feast, and inoperativity -- The last chapter in the history of the world.
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  26. Infância e história: destruição da experiência e origem da história. Belo Horizonte: UFMG.Giorgio Agamben - forthcoming - Humanitas.
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    Idea of Prose.Giorgio Agamben - 1995 - State University of New York Press.
    This book consists of prose pieces that find a new form of expression for philosophy, an expression showing the inseparability of idea and prose--the very form of truth.
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    Potentialities.Brian Dillon, Giorgio Agamben & Daniel Heller-Roazen - 2001 - Substance 30 (1/2):254.
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    Signatura rerum: sur la méthode.Giorgio Agamben - 2008 - Vrin.
    Les trois études rassemblent des réflexions du philosophe sur trois problèmes de méthode spécifiques : le concept de paradigme, la théorie des signatures et la relation entre histoire et archéologie.
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  30. What is a Paradigm?Giorgio Agamben - 2009 - Filozofski Vestnik 30 (1):107-125.
     
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    The fire and the tale.Giorgio Agamben - 2017 - Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Edited by Lorenzo Chiesa.
    What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenaciously resists creation, thereby giving each work its strength and grace. The ten essays brought together here (...)
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    The omnibus homo sacer.Giorgio Agamben - 2017 - Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
    Homo sacer : sovereign power and bare life -- State of exception -- Stasis : civil war as a political paradigm -- The sacrament of language : an archaeology of the oath -- The kingdom and the glory : for a theological genealogy of economy and government -- Opus Dei : an archaeology of duty -- Remnants of Auschwitz : the witness and the archive -- The highest poverty : monastic rules and form-of-life -- The use of bodies.
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    What is Philosophy?Giorgio Agamben - 2017 - Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
    In attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its components: the phonemes, letters, syllables, and words that come together to make up the phrases and ideas of philosophical discourse. A summa, of sorts, of Agamben's thought, the book consists of five essays on five emblematic topics: the Voice, the Sayable, the Demand, the Proem, and the Muse. In keeping (...)
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    La comunità che viene.Giorgio Agamben - 1990 - Einaudi.
    La ricerca può essere effettuata anche con parole non complete. Per esempio - per la ricerca dell'autore 'Gerardus van der Leeuw' può bastare l'inserimento della parola 'lee' o di altre parti del nome o del cognome. Questa possibilità facilita la ricerca di parole difficili o di cui non è semplice memorizzare la trascrizione. Se invece si inserisce nella ricerca, oltre al cognome dell'autore, anche il nome ed il titolo del libro, o almeno alcune parole significative del titolo, il risultato della (...)
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    Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics.Giorgio Agamben - 2021 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents an account of the political upheavals that ensued as the COVID-19 pandemic brought his country—and with it his countrymen's personal liberties—to a crashing halt. While controversial, Agamben’s reflections on the transformation of Western democracies hold implications far beyond any present crisis.
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    Karman: A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture.Giorgio Agamben - 2016 - Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Edited by Adam Kotsko.
    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 for a way out (...)
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  37. The work of man.Giorgio Agamben - 2007 - In Matthew Calarco & Steven DeCaroli (eds.), Giorgio Agamben: sovereignty and life. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
     
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  38. (2 other versions)Homo sacer: o poder suberano ea vida nua. VI Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG.Giorgio Agamben - forthcoming - Humanitas.
     
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    The Church and the Kingdom.Giorgio Agamben - 2012 - Seagull Books.
    Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well. In March 2009, Agamben was invited to speak in Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in the presence of the Bishop of Paris and a number of other high-ranking church officials. His resulting speech, a stunningly lucid and provocative look at the history and (...)
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    Mezzi senza fine: note sulla politica.Giorgio Agamben - 1996 - Torino: Bollati Borlinghieri.
    L'eclissi della politica è cominciata da quando essa ha omesso di confrontarsi con le trasformazioni che ne hanno svuotato categorie e concetti. Accade così che paradigmi genuinamente politici vadano ora cercati in esperienze e fenomeni che di solito non sono considerati politici: la vita naturale degli uomini restituita al centro della polis; il campo di concentramento; il rifugiato; il linguaggio come luogo politico per eccellenza, oggetto di una contesa e di una manipolazione senza precedenti; la sfera dei mezzi puri o (...)
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    (1 other version)The State of Exception.Giorgio Agamben - 2005 - In Andrew Norris (ed.), Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer. Durham: Duke University Press. pp. 284-298.
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    On the Limits of Violence.Giorgio Agamben, Lorenzo Fabbri & Elisabeth Fay - 2009 - Diacritics 39 (4):103-111.
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    1. Capitalism as Religion.Giorgio Agamben - 2016 - In Daniel McLoughlin (ed.), Agamben and Radical Politics. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 15-26.
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    L' uso dei corpi.Giorgio Agamben - 2014 - Vicenza: Neri Pozza editore.
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    Philosophical Archaeology.Giorgio Agamben - 2009 - Law and Critique 20 (3):211-231.
    In the perspective of the philosophical archaeology proposed, here, the arkhé towards which archaeology regresses must not be understood in any way as an element that can be situated in chronology ; it is, rather, a force that operates in history—much in the same way in which Indoeuropean words express a system of connections among historically accessible languages, in which the child in psychoanalysis expresses an active force in the psychic life of the adult, in which the big bang, which (...)
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    Creazione e anarchia: l'opera nell'età della religione capitalistica.Giorgio Agamben - 2017 - Vicenza: Neri Pozza editore.
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    Karman: breve trattato sull'azione, la colpa e il gesto.Giorgio Agamben - 2017 - Torino: Bollati Boringhieri.
    La causa e la colpa -- Crimen e karman -- Le aporie della volontà -- Al di là dell'azione.
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    K.Giorgio Agamben - 2009 - Problemi 4.
    This chapter is an intervention into the interpretation of Franz Kafka's great novels The Trial and The Castle; implicitly, it constitutes a divided assault on the divisiveness of the law. In Roman law, slander represented so serious a threat for the administration of justice that the false accuser was punished by the branding of the letter K on his forehead. The gravity of slander is a function of its calling into question the principle itself of the trial: the moment of (...)
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    Il linguaggio e la morte. Un seminario sul luogo della negatività.Giorgio Agamben - 2008 - Einaudi.
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  50. Security and Terror.Giorgio Agamben & Carolin Emcke - 2001 - Theory and Event 5 (4).
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